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  2. List of railway companies - Wikipedia

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    Elron (government-owned passenger train operator; 2013–) Go Rail (named EVR Ekspress until 2006; Tallinn–Moscow passenger service operator; 1998–2015) Põlevkivi Raudtee (Coal train operator to Narva Power Plants )

  3. Rail transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Passenger service was especially hard hit; in 1971 the federal government created Amtrak, to take over responsibility for intercity passenger travel. Numerous railroad companies went bankrupt starting in the 1960s, most notably Penn Central Transportation Company in 1971, in the

  4. List of rail transit systems in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the operating passenger rail transit systems in the United States. This list does not include intercity rail services such as the Alaska Railroad or Amtrak and its state-sponsored subsidiaries. "Region" refers to the metropolitan area based around the city listed, where applicable. Operating Region State System Authority Type (FTA) Albuquerque New Mexico Rail Runner Express ...

  5. Why doesn’t the US have more passenger trains? - AOL

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    By the early 1970s, passenger rail service had become a drag on private companies’ bottom lines amid low ridership, deteriorating infrastructure and growing competition from cars and planes.

  6. Amtrak - Wikipedia

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    The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (/ ˈ æ m t r æ k /; reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces .

  7. List of U.S. Class I railroads - Wikipedia

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    As of 2023 there are just four American owned Class I freight railroad companies and one passenger railroad company (Amtrak). The list also includes two Canadian-owned Class I freight railroads, both of which have trackage in the US, and one, CPKC, has trackage in Mexico.

  8. List of named passenger trains of the United States (A–B)

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    Buffalo Train: Lehigh Valley Railroad, Grand Trunk Western Railroad: New York City–Chicago [1907] 1902–1914 Buffalonian: West Shore Railroad: New York City–Buffalo, New York (with sleeping cars to Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston) [1915] 1910–1925 Buffalonian: New York Central: New York City–Buffalo, New York [1924] 1915–1932 Buffalonian

  9. Passenger train - Wikipedia

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    A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. [1] [2] These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self propelled passenger trains are known as multiple units or railcars.

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