The Big Boys of the regional railroads ?

[Kozzie]

Over on the railpictures website I noticed there are quite a few regional/short lines. Which of the regional lines would be larger ones? Large as, I suppose, track network? Or are they fairly close in size?

I realize that, by definition, they wouldn't be in the league of the Class 1s, but just a general idea of the larger regionals would be interesting, since there seems to be so many in different parts of the country. [;)] [:)]

Kozzie [:)]

[David_Telesha]

Check out my P&W pics.. Quite a few on there. Same user name, on the drop down list, I am..

The Mighty P&W The Railroad That Can... and WILL!

[fuzzybroken]

A few regionals of the upper Midwest:
Dakota Minnesota & Eastern/Iowa Chicago & Eastern (probably about the biggest of the regionals these days)
Iowa Interstate
Wisconsin & Southern
Indiana Rail Road
Twin Cities & Western
Northern Plains Railway

[Kozzie]

Thanks Mark and Dave. That list is very helpful Mark.

Much appreciated [:)]

Dave[:)]

[nanaimo73]

Dave,
I am doing a summary of the Regional Railroads in the United States, both the 31 existing ones and the 30 former ones. It is about 60% complete and should be done in a week or two. If you want to have a look, it is at
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=65153

[Kozzie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73

Dave,
I am doing a summary of the Regional Railroads in the United States, both the 31 existing ones and the 30 former ones. It is about 60% complete and should be done in a week or two. If you want to have a look, it is at
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=65153

Dale, thanks for the list - I'm going to print out that lot. [:)]

Dave

[carnej1]

The P&W is my fave modern railroad (I live in RI 2 blocks from the East Providence secondary) but I would point out that it is a dwarfed by some other regionals (many out West but even Guilford is much larger)..........................................

[samfp1943]

Kozzie: Something else you might enjoy surfing: The web sites of some of the regional/shortline systems:
Locally there is the Watco Companies of Pittsburg, Ks. that has become a large operator of lines spun off by various other rail roads:
http://www.watcocompanies.com/railroads.htm
Another company is RailAmerica @
http://www.railamerica.com/railmaps.htm
The shortline railroads and regionals have taken over much of the lighter trafficed branchlines and lighter mainline ops from the Class I's.
This website will provide some access to many sites for various shortlines and regionals:
http://www.aslrra.org/home/index.cfm
Hope you can enjoy some of these sites.
Sam

[coborn35]

Montana Rail Link and former Wisconsin Central.

[trainboyH16-44]

Here's another big former one: BC Rail. Hundreds of miles of mainline run with the biggest engines of the time, and yet still considered a regional.

[CaptainChuck]

Guilford/PamAm Railways
Ew...

[rrandb]

The Florida East Coast FEC is a reginal railroad that operates all within one state i.e. intrastate. It is up near the top of reginal railroads. It also in the last 10 years celibrated its 100 aniversary. With the same name for most of that time. It has only ever operated EMD equipment since dieselization. [2c] As always ENJOY

[mudchicken]

Kozzie:

Your Class 2 AAR Regionals right now are:

Alaska RR
Bangor & Aroostook/ Montreal, Maine & Atlantic..RailWorld
Bessemer & Lake Erie (CN)
Buffalo & Pittsburg...(G&W)
Central Kansas/ Kansas & Olahoma RR...WATCO
Central Oregon & Pacific...RailAmerica
Chicago Central & Pacific (CN)
Dakota Minnesota & Eastern...CedarAmerican
Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range (CN)
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern...TransStar
Guilford Rail System/PanAm
Florida East Coast RR
Iowa Chicago & Eastern...CedarAmerican
Indiana & Ohio...RailAmerica
Iowa Interstate...Rail Management Group/Rail Development Corp
Kyle RR...RailAmerica
Missouri & Northern Arkansas Ry. ...RailAmerica
Montana Rail Link...Washington International
Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railnet...Omnitrax
New York, Susquehanna & Western
Northern Plains RR
Paducah & Louisville RR...Four Rivers Transportation
Providence & Worchester RR
Red River Valley & Western RR
South Kansas & Oklahoma (Kansas & Oklahoma)...watco
South Orient RR...
Tuscola & Saginaw Bay RR
Utah Railway (g&w)
Wheeling & Lake Erie RR
Wisconsin & Southern RR
Wisconsin Central (CN)

They all average $40 million dollars annual operating revenue and are 350+ miles long (per AAR)