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Pages in category "Mining railways in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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In December 1999, the last 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) railway in the Central German coal mining field in Lusatia was closed. In the United States, Consol Energy's Shoemaker Mine, covering a large area east of Benwood, West Virginia was the last underground coal mine to use rail haulage.
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge. Reporting marks are listed in parentheses. [1] A&R Terminal Railroad (ART) Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR) Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR)
List of narrow-gauge railroads in the United States (all 3 ft / 914 mm gauge unless stated) Railroad State Start year End year Notes Arcata and Mad River Railroad: California: 1854: 1983: 3 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,156 mm) gauge, converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad: Pennsylvania: 1891: 1916
Railroad AAR rep. mark Bay Line Railroad (AL and FL) BAYL Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CA and OR) CORP Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad: CFE Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (IL and IN) CSS Cimarron Valley Railroad (CO, KS, and OK) CVR Deseret Power Railroad (CO and UT) DPRW Rail Link (operates 26 short line railroads) RLIX
The first American locomotive at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1826 The Canton Viaduct, built in 1834, is still in use today on the Northeast Corridor.. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston ...
In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual ...