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List of United States railroads
There are approximately 150,000 miles (240,000 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge. The following is a partial list of United States railroads which operate or used to operate there:
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In operation as of 2004
- Amtrak (federally owned) [1]
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) [2]
- CONRAIL (now under CSX and NS) [3]
- CSX (Chessie, Seaboard, Etcetera) [4]
- Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) [5]
- Norfolk Southern Railroad [6]
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP) [7] oldest independent railroad in the U.S. (Long Island Rail Road is older, but not independent)
Short line railroads
- Alaska Railroad [8]
- Arcade & Attica Railroad (ARA) [9]
- Belt Railway of Chicago [10]
- Buffalo Southern Railroad (BSOR) [11]
- Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad [12]
- City of Prineville Railroad [13]
- Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW) [14]
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway [15]
- Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad [16]
- Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) [17]
- Genesee & Wyoming Railroad [18]
- Georgia Northeastern Railroad (GNRR) [19]
- Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW) [20]
- Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad [21]
- Kodak Park Railroad (KPRR) [22]
- Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad (LAL) [23]
- New York & Lake Erie Railroad (NYLE) [24]
- New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad [25]
- Riverport Railroad [26]
- Somerset Railroad (SOM)
- Vermont Railway [27]
- Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) [28]
Commuter railroads
- Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) [29]
- Caltrain (SF Bay Area Caltrain) [30]
- Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) [31]
- Hiawatha Line
- Long Island Rail Road (LIRR, now part of NYC's MTA) (Oldest railroad still operating in the US)
- Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) [32]
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) [33]
- New York City Transit Authority (NYC's MTA) [34]
- Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation (Metra) [35]
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) [36]
- Virginia Railway Express [37]
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) [38]
Excursion and tourist railroads
- Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road [39]
- Blue Ridge Scenic Railway (BRSR) [40]
- Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad [41]
- Eastern Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC, or "Tweetsie") [42]
- Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway [43]
- Mount Hood Railroad [44]
- Mount Washington Cog Railway [45]
- Napa Valley Wine Train [46]
- Tennessee Valley Railroad [47]
- Virginia & Truckee Railroad (V&T) [48]
- Winter Park Ski Train [49]
Canadian railways also operating in the U.S.
Canadian railroads that operate in the U.S include:
- Canadian National Railway (CN) [50]
- Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) [51]
- Grand Trunk Railway (GT, presently little more than a name used by CN)
Mexican railroads also operating in the U.S.
Mexican railroads that operate in the U.S. include:
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (N de M) [52]
No longer in operation
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (ATSF or AT&SF)
- Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad (AB&C or ABC; formerly Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad )
- Atlanta & Knoxville Railroad
- Atlanta & West Point Railroad
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
- Attica & Allegheny Valley
- Autotrain Corporation
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) first in the U.S.
- Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
- Billerica & Bedford Railroad [53]
- Boston & Maine Corporation (B&M)
- Bridgton & Saco River Railroad [54]
- Buffalo, Attica & Arcade
- Buffalo Creek Railroad (BCK)
- Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
- Central of Georgia Railway (C of G) [55]
- Central Pacific Railroad (CP)
- Central Railroad of New Jersey
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad (C&O)
- Chessie System Railroads (C&O and B&O)
- Chicago & Alton Railroad
- Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (Burlington Route)
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI)
- Chicago Great Western Railway
- Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway (Monon)
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road)
- Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (North Shore Line)
- Chicago & Northwestern Railway (CNW or C&NW)
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (Rock Island, or RI)
- Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Big Four)
- Delaware & Hudson Railway
- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (Lackawanna)
- Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company
- Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway
- Denver & Pacific Railroad
- Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (DRG or D&RG)
- Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW or D&RGW)
- Denver & Salt Lake Railroad
- Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railway
- Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad
- Edaville Railroad
- Erie Railroad
- Erie Lackawanna Railroad
- Galena & Chicago Union Railroad
- Georgia Railroad
- Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
- Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad (GR&I)
- Great Northern Railroad (GN)
- Green Bay & Western (GBW)
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad (GCSF)
- Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GM&O)
- Hudson River Railroad
- Illinois Central Railroad
- Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
- Lehigh & Hudson River Railway
- Lehigh & New England Railroad
- Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N)
- Maine Central Railroad
- Macon & Birmingham Railway (formerly Macon & Birmingham Railroad)
- Marietta & North Georgia Railroad
- Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy)
- Missouri Pacific Railroad
- Monongahela Connecting Railroad
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad
- New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad (completed 1858; reorganized into part of Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans Railroad in 1875 and then part of Illinois Central Railroad )
- New York & Atlantic Railway
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
- New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road)
- New York and Harlem Railroad
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W)
- Northern Pacific Railway (NP)
- Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway (OP&E)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) (joint venture of Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Railroad)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR, "Pennsy")
- Pere Marquette Railroad
- Reading Railroad (pronounced "Redding")
- Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad (RF&P)
- Rio Grande Industries
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad
- Rio Grande Western Railway
- Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad ("Hojack")
- Rutland Railroad
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railway (Frisco)
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt)
- Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad (SG&NA)
- Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL)
- Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL)
- Seaboard System Railroad
- Soo Line Railroad (SOO)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Southern Railway (Southern, later NS with N&W)
- Spokan, Portland & Seattle Railway
- Tonawanda Valley & Cuba
- Virginian Railway (VGN)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB, now part of Norfolk Southern)
- Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad (WB&A)
- Western & Atlantic Railroad (W&A)
- Western Maryland Railway
- Western Pacific Railroad (WP)
- White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y)
- Wiscasset, Waterville, & Farmington Railway [56]
- Wisconsin & Calumet Railroad
- Wisconsin Central (WC)
Commuter railroads
- Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT, now part of NYC's MTA)
- Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (defunct, dismantled in 1940)
- Independent Subway (IND, now NYC's MTA)
- Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT, now NYC's MTA)
- Pacific Electric Railway
- Twin City Rapid Transit (TCRT, or TCL for Twin City Lines)
See also
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Last updated: 12-31-2004 12:16:56