Ultimate Railroad List

[Anonymous]

Can't forget
Amtrak
Kansas City Southern

[CSXrules4eva]

I'll give ya some PA heritiage railroads u can use, most of these were in my area Philadelphia, PA long before I was born.

Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad
Philadelphia and Reding Railroad
Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
Allegheny Portage Railroad
West Chester Railroad
Chestnut Hill Railroad
New Hope and Ivyland Railroad
East Brad Top Railroad
Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad
Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad
Wanamarker, Kempton, and Southern Railroad

[Anonymous]

The largest railroad to be abandoned (half) Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul & Pacific (MIlwaukee Road). And predecessors, Milwaukee & Mississipi, Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, Montana Railroad (Jawbone), and others I can't think of offhand.

[espeefoamer]

Mount Hood Railroad
McCloud Railway
Oregon Electric

[oskar]

SOO,Conrail,GSF,Arizona&California,ACWR,AR,BM,CV,DH,EJE,FEC,GSWR,IORY,KCS,
NYSW,OHCR,Pickens,SP,VTR Look in a map for more names

Leasers
Gefx,Gcfx,Furx,Ebbx,HLGX,HLCX,Gpsx,NHL,MEG,HLLX,RLCX,LMX,LMS,LMSX,





kevin

[Anonymous]

South kansas and oklahoma railway
Kansas and oklahmoa
Central kansas railway
cimarron valley railway
Kansas oklahoma and gulf railway
southern pacific
Chiago and northwestern
SOO line

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cpbloom

You forgot:
Pittsburg and Shawmut

and how could we forget

Denver and Rio Grande Western

I thought our mothers taught us better....

[Anonymous]

Gainsville Midline, Savanah and Atlanta, Tallula Falls, Stillman Airline, and the Sylvania Central

[Anonymous]

it just popped in my mind!
chessie
B&O
rutland
NYS&W
Georgia RR
wichita and southwestern
SJVRR
cargill ( they have engines!)
conrail
TRRA
SSW
NJT
L&N
MKT
SPSF (not really an RR)
OLLX
HLCX
FRISCO!!!!
WSOR
loram
FURX
WC

It's getting hard to think now...

[edblysard]

Well,
We feel left out...

[Anonymous]

Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railroad
Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad
Sierra Railroad
State Belt Railroad
Western Pacific

[Anonymous]

Illinois Central, how could I forget

[Anonymous]

Let's not overlook all other continents too Asia Europe, and the others. Well he did say railroad companies of the world.

[Anonymous]

WHAT A LISTING OF THE GREATEST ENDEVOR IN LAND TRANSPORT.

[jcavinato]

I've got some Railway Guides from the 50s and there are over 600 roads in these (Canada, Mexico, US, and Cuba).

Given that most of the roads in the rest of the world are government owned (and fewer per country), the North American number of 600 might be at least half of the world total. Of course there are/were some really neat privately owned mountain passenger roads in places like Switzerland.

[jcavinato]

Such a listing would also be greatly complicated unless a specific date was defined first. Just look at all the roads that got wrapped into the Pennsy in the 1800s and early 1900s. They all became one name. Then there was CR and father on CSX and N&W -- plus all the spin offs like the Nittany & Bald Eagle.

So, if you're going to do this marathon, I'd suggest picking a date, or broadly allowing any road name no matter when they existed. Wow, this reminds me of the Forest Gump walk across the country and back several times.

It would be an amazing graphical chart on a huge wall. It would be quite of bit of industrial archeology to capture and preserve.

[Mark300]

How about;

Western Maryland Railway (WM)
It's predecessor name; Western Maryland Railroad Co.
Cumberland and Pennsylvania RR (CPA)
West Virginia & Pittsburg Railway Co.
Greenbrier Cheat & Elk RR Co.
Georges Creek & Cumberland RR Co. (GCC)
West Virginia Midland Ry Co.


Mark