A MAJOR list!

[Santa Fe buff]

I'm trying a stab at a list of railroad companies, can some people list small lines that are hard to hear of, the foreign train companies, oh, and some branch lines! Please help!

[Guilford Guy]

You have your work cut out for you...
Boston & Maine
Maine Central
Portland Terminal
Grand Trunk
Wolfeboro
Conway Scenic
Maine Coast
Maine Eastern
Morristown & Erie
Grafton & Upton
Bay Colony
Mass Coastal
Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington
Claremont & Concord
Clarendon & Pittsford
Green Mountain
Washington County
Vermont Railway
Montreal Maine & Atlantic
St Lawrence & Atlantic
Lamoille Valley
St Johnsbury & Lamoille County
Fonda Johnstown & Gloversville
Boston Railway Terminal
Delaware-Otsego
Delaware & Hudson
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh & New England
Lehigh & Hudson River
New Haven
Branford Steam Railway
New Hope & Ivyland
Strasburg
Central Vermont
New England Central
Central New England
Connecticut Central
Mass Central
New Hampshire & Vermont
New Hampshire Central
Providence & Worcester
Old Colony & Newport
Suncook Valley
I'll list more later

[Paul M.]

Some that were or are in my area:
Texas & Pacific
Gulf & Santa Fe
Panhandle & Santa Fe
Fort Worth & Denver City
Fort Worth & Western
M-K-T
Dallas Garland & Northeastern
Texas northeastern
Texas city terminal


I might list more later

[Guilford Guy]

Skineatles Shortline
Florida East Coast
Seminole Gulf
Norfolk Southern (not the black and white one)
Spokane Portland & Seattle
Delaware-Lackawanna
Lowville & Beaver River
Depew Lancaster & Western
Green Bay & Western
Wisconsin Central
Wisconsin Southern
Toledo Peora & Western
Ohio Central
New England Southern
New Hampshire NorthCoast
Housatonic
Black River & Western
Tidewater Southern
Mid-South
West Jersey
Central Railroad of New York
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Southern Railroad of New Jersey
Delaware Lackawanna & Western
Erie
Erie Lackawanna
Pittsburg & Shawmut
Pittsburg Shawmut & Northern
Brookville Mining Equipment
Wanamaker Kempton & Southern
Middlestown & Hummelstown
Fairport Painesville & Eastern
Fingerlakes Railway
Farm Rail
Bath & Hammondsport
Livonia Avon & Lakeville
Western New York & Pennsylvania

[Pacific Northern]

I'm trying a stab at a list of railroad companies, can some people list small lines that are hard to hear of, the foreign train companies, oh, and some branch lines! Please help!

Check the index

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/

[Yampa Bob]

A Google search of "excursion railroads" resulted in 434,000 sites.  Add all the railroad names attached to museums, historical societies, private lines (such as Paperton Junction Southern), railroad clubs, live steam, etc, the list grows to about 2,000,000 sites.

This site only lists 200 North American excursion railroads registered in their database:

http://www.railsnw.com/region99.htm

Worldwide including historical?.....A "WAG" of 500,000 total railroad names might be conservative.

Good luck

[kevin2083]

A few from around here:
Huntsville and Madison County Railroad
Mercury and Chase
International Intermodal Center
Huntsville and Madison County Airport Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority

[mudhen]

No one mentioned North America's largest road Canadian National  and its 2nd largest in Canada, the Canadian Pacific.
CN Owns Grand Trunk, Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont, DW&P, to just mention a few and many I will list to you later. CN is the largest railroad in North America. Hope this helps

[Guilford Guy]

Yep, I just figured he had known the larger roads like CN, CP, BNSF, UP, KCS, CSX, NS

[SteamGene]

He asked for SMALL lines.
East Broadtop
Virginia Central
Louisiana and Arkansas
Ft. Belvoir Military Railroad
Ft. Eustis Military Railroad (also trading as either MG&B (Main Gate and Back) or LH&B (Lee Hall and Back)
Tennesse Valley Railroad
Reader Railroad
Maryland and Pennsylvania (Ma and Pa)
Strasburg Railroad

Gene

[Paul M.]

No one mentioned North America's largest road Canadian National  and its 2nd largest in Canada, the Canadian Pacific.
CN Owns Grand Trunk, Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont, DW&P, to just mention a few and many I will list to you later. CN is the largest railroad in North America. Hope this helps

CN is bigger than UP? news to me......

[Yampa Bob]

I don't like straying off topic, but since it has already been brought up:

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/corporate_info/uprrover.shtml

As of 2007, CN had 1,581 locomotives, while UP had 8,721. UP has the higher trackage and revenue.  The proposed CN - BNSF merger of 1999, which would have formed a new corporate entity called "North American Railways"  was rejected by the STB. No further merger proposals have been filed. 

In 2000 a news service erroneously reported an "alliance" between the two companies, there is no official notice of such an alliance by either railway.  CN does have an alliance with KCS for the stateside routes.

Even if CN and BNSF were to form such an alliance, UP is still the largest single corporate railroad in North America.

[Pacific Northern]

Yampa Bob

Apparently CN is the "longest" railroad in North America.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001316

[RAM]

Northwestern Oklahoma 7 miles, Southwest railway company 9 miles.  Tulsa Sapulpa Union 10 miles, Sand Springs 10 miles, Hollis & Eastern 14 miles.  Tulsa's Port of Catoosa, Southeast Kansas Rialroad, Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern,  Austin, Tood, & Ladd.  Stillwater Central,  Central  Kansas railway, South Kansas & Oklahjoma, Wichita Tillman & Jackson, Kiamichi RR.  Farmrail corp.  grainbelt. Cor.

[Yampa Bob]

CN controlled trackage stated on that site is  50,000 km.

UP trackage primary main line 58,364 km, add second, third, fourth main line and auxiliary brings total to 87,091 km under direct control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad#Current_trackage