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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.
As of late 2013, most rail freight to New York City moves over lines on the west side of the Hudson and is unloaded in New Jersey, where it is brought by truck to the city. Railroad freight cars that enter the city or Long Island do so via the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Staten Island. [17] New York and Atlantic Railway system map
They comprise just 1% of the number of freight railroads, but account for 67% of the industry's mileage, 90% of its employees, and 93% of its freight revenue. A regional railroad is a line haul railroad with at least 350 miles (560 km) and/or revenue between $40 million and the Class I threshold. There were 33 regional railroads in 2006.
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. [1] [2] Amtrak; BNSF Railway; Canadian National Railway
Belvidere and Delaware River Railway: BDRV Class 3 Black River and Western Railroad: BRW Class 3 Cape May Seashore Lines: CMSL Class 3 Canadian Pacific Railway: CP Class 1 Canadian Pacific has trackage rights to Oak Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey. Conrail Shared Assets Operations: CRCX Class 3 Conrail is jointly owned by CSX and Norfolk ...
The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line in New York City, owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway.It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation's Fremont Secondary (to the Hell Gate Bridge) at Glendale, Queens, with the Upper New York Bay at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
The Trenton Cutoff (sometimes spelled Trenton Cut Off) is a 48-mile (77 km) rail corridor in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that runs from Morrisville to Glenloch.Today used by Norfolk Southern, it consists of two rail lines: the Morrisville Line, which runs between Morrisville and Ernest (near Norristown), and the Dale Secondary between Ernest and Glenloch.
Map of the world with rail density (length of rail network divided by area of country) highlighted. This does not necessarily reflect actual rail use. This is a list of countries by rail usage. Usage of rail transport may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for freight and passenger transport ...