List of defunct railroads of North America

The defunct railroads of North America regrouped several railroads in Canada and the United States. Here is a list of the past railroad companies.

Defunct railroad companies

ASLR locomotive

Grand Trunk locomotive in 1859

Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande.

Missouri Pacific Locomotive #152

Vauclain compound locomotive, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

• Algoma Central Railway (AC)
• Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
• Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
• Auto-Train Corporation (AUT)
• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)
• Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR)
• Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railroad ^[1]
• Boston and Albany Railroad (B&A)
• Boston and Maine Corporation (BM)
• Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado ^[2]
• Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
• Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR)
• Central of Georgia Railway
• Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR)
• Central Railroad of New Jersey (Jersey Central) (CNJ)
• Central Vermont (CV)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO)
• Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
• Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW)
• Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
• Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI)
• Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW)
• Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S)
• Columbia Tap Railway ^[3]
• Conrail (CR)
• Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW)
• Detroit Toledo & Ironton (DT&I)
• Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway (DGH&M)
• Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad ^[4]
• Grand Trunk (GT)
• Great Northern Railway (GN)
• Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ^[5]
• Fernley and Lassen Railway
• Fredericksburg and Northern Railway ^[6]
• Hudson Bay Railway (HBR)
• Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad ^[7]
• Houston, East & West Texas Railroad ^[8]
• Houston & Texas Central Railroad ^[9]
• Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
• Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC)
• International–Great Northern Railroad ^[10]
• LaPorte Houston Northern Railway ^[11]
• Louisville and Nashville Railroad (LN)
• Maine Central (MCR)
• Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (MSTL)
• Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) (also known as the "KATY")^[12]
• Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
• National Transcontinental Railway (NTR)
• New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad
• New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
• New Orleans & Nashville Railroad – see Uptown New Orleans.
• New York Central (NYC)
• New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH)
• New York, Ontario and Western Railroad (OW)
• New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (NKP)
• Norfolk and Western Railway (NW)
• Northern Pacific Railway (NP)
• Northern Railway of Canada (NRC)
• Pontchartrain Railroad
• Penn Central (PC)
• Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
• Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR)
• Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
• Reading Railroad (RDG)
• St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad ^[13]
• San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad ^[14]
• Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL)
• Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP)
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SPSR)
• Texas and New Orleans Railroad (TNO) ^[15]
• Trinity & Brazos Valley Railroad ^[16]
• Tuskegee Railroad
• Western Maryland Railway (WM)
• Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad
• Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC)

See also

• List of Canadian railways
• List of reporting marks
• List of U.S. Class I railroads
• Transportation in the United States
• Narrow gauge railroads in the United States
• List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States
• List of defunct North Carolina railroads

References

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2. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
3. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
4. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
5. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
6. "History of The San Antonio, Fredericksburg & Northern Railway". Texas Transportation Museum. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
7. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
8. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
9. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
10. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
11. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
12. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
13. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
14. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
15. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
16. "About us". Port Terminal Railroad Association. Port Terminal Railroad Association. Retrieved 19 May 2015.