Roadnames

[Isambard]

Add: Duluth Winnipeg and Pacific

[Isambard]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cacole

You can find every name ever used on the Internet if you look around. I found it once, but don't remember where it was -- a U.S. Government agency, I believe -- maybe the Trademark and Patent Office. Someone had them posted on their private Web site, too. I have the list printed out, but don't have it on disk any more or I could e-mail it to you.

I just typed "Railroad names" into Google and it came up with a site that is compiling them, as well as model railroad names -- give that a try.

Where did you find the listing for model railroad names (I was snowed under by the plethora of other links/references that Google pulled up)

[coal drag]

Peabody Short Line

[Anonymous]

Depending on how small you're looking there's the Trans-Kentucky Transportation Inc. (TTI)
This is a shortline sub of CSX through central/eastern KY.

[Anonymous]

Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric (taken over in 1926 by...)
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (yes, it was a freight hauler, too)
Illinois Terminal (interurban, later dieselized freight)
Fox Lake & Western (interurban from Waukegan, IL to Fox Lake, IL, defunct in 1920s)
Chicago South Shore & South Bend (commuter/freight)

I haven't read ahead to see if these were already covered.

Jay

[Anonymous]

Palatine, Lake Zurich & Wauconda RR

[Junctionfan]

Northern Alberta
Depew,Lancaster & Western
Joppa & Western
Penn Eastern Rail lines
Dakota Minnisota & Eastern
Atlantic&Western
Corinth&Counce
Carlton Trail Railway
St.Lawrence&Atlantic
Arkansas Midland
Alabama&Gulf Coast
Allegheny&Eastern
Angelina&Neches River
East Erie Commercial Railroad
Georgia Northeastern
I&M Raillink
International Bridge Terminal
Iowa Chiacago&Eastern
Kasgro Rail lines
Lamoille Valley Railroad
Louisville&Wadley
Lowville&Beaver River
Michigan Shore Railroad
Montreal, Maine&Atlantic
Nebrasca, Kansas&Colorado Rail Net
North Shore Railroad
Sidney&Lowe Railroad
Tuscola&Saginaw Bay
Washington Central
Juniata Valley Railroad
Quincy Bay Terminal
Goderich&Exeter
Canada Southern
Canadian American Railroad
TFM
Southern Railway of British Colombia (SRY)
Feather River&Western
Wellsboro&Corning Railroad
New Hampshire&Vermont

[Anonymous]

Kansas & Oklahoma
Mississippi Delta Railroad
Fort Worth & Western
Trinity Railway Express
Rochester & Southern
Quincy Railroad
PTRA (Houston)
Metrolink
Go Transit

You should get the Locomotive Rosters & News books for James W. Kerr. It lists al the rail lines across the US. I'd give a guess about 400+ railroads.

-Matt

[ericsp]

San Joaquin Valley Railroad
California Northern
Sunset Railway (never independant, was a subsidiary of SP and ATSF from the beginning using SP or ATSF equipment, now operated by SJVR)
Visalia Electric
Modesto and Empire Traction
Sierra Railroad
Yolo Shortline (now owned by Sierra Railroad)
Fillmore and Western
Port Harbor Lines
San Diego and Imperial Valley
Parr Terminal, now Richmond Pacific Railroad (?)
Tidewater Southern

http://www.anacostia.com/home.html
http://www.railamerica.com/

[Anonymous]

Arlington and Fairfax
Baltimore and Annapolis
Capitol Traction/Capitol Transit
Chesapeake and Western
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad
Washington and Virginia

[Anonymous]

SInce a couple others have already chimed in on older NC roads, here's a few more:

Transylvania Railroad
Carolina and Northwestern
Cliffside Railroad
Mount Mitchell Railroad
Tuckasegee and Southern
Talullah Falls Railway (GA)
Carr Lumber Co. Ry.
Glouchester Lumber Co. Ry.
Moltz Lumber Co. Ry.
W.M. Ritter Lumber Co. Ry.

A coulpe of MI roads:

Michigan Air Line
Detroit Terminal

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