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RailAmerica, Inc., based in Jacksonville, Florida, was a holding company of a number of short-line railroads and regional railroads in the United States and Canada. In 2007, RailAmerica was acquired by Fortress Investment Group.
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 ...
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Steel rails began to replace iron later in the 19th century. Several railroads imported steel rails from England in the 1860s, and the first commercially available steel rails in the U.S. were manufactured in 1867 at the Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. By the mid-1880s U.S. railroads were using more steel rails than iron in ...
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.
New Zealand Railways Corporation (Rail operator 1981 – 1990, land owner 1990 – 2003, Ontrack 2003–2008, railway land owner 2008 – present) New Zealand Rail Limited (Defunct, privatised 1993, renamed Tranz Rail in 1995)
Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR) Acadiana Railway (AKDN) Adams-Warnock Railway (AWRY) Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road (ADBF) Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) Ag Valley Railroad (AVRR) Aiken Railway (AIKR) Akron Barberton Cluster Railway (AB) Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) (GWI) Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (ATN ...
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is the only commuter railroad that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in North America. A GO Transit Bombardier cab car at Toronto's Scarborough Station. Almost all commuter rail services in North America are operated by government entities or quasi-governmental organizations.