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Per, are you looking for an all-time list of the thousands of North American railroad companies? Or just the major companies of recent years? Or all the companies large and small of recent years? The first I've never seen, though there's been some attempts to put one together. The problem is the thousands of paper railroads and momentary names, and records prior to 1900 are in many cases incomplete, missing, or conflicting. Once the ICC began regulating railroads, records become very good. The annual ICC Statistics of Steam Railroads in America has a complete list of every company in the 1900-1960 era. If you're looking for a synopsis of the major railroads of the last 50 years, the best source is Kalmbach's Historical Guide to North American Railroads. I use it at least once daily at work to verify facts, names, spelling, and dates. I bought one long before I went to work for Kalmbach, too. If you want the short lines, too, the best source, although now out of date, is Kalmbach's Short Line Guide. If you want to know where railroads go, Steam Powered Video's Historical Atlases are absolutely essential. (How did we ever know anything before these came out?) If you want the quick-and-dirty guide to major railroads, this site, as others have already suggested, is as good as any.
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