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An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the world.
The defunct railroads of North America regrouped several railroads in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The following is a list of the past railroad companies. Defunct railroad companies ASLR locomotive Grand Trunk locomotive in 1859 Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande.
1928–1984. Predecessor. Malheur Railroad. Technical. Length. 50.2 miles (80.8 km) The Oregon and Northwestern Railroad (O&NW) is a defunct railroad in eastern Oregon in the United States. It ran 50.2 miles (80.8 km) from Hines north to Seneca, which is on the edge of the Malheur National Forest, [1] [2] over a total of 19 trestles.
89001388 [1] Added to NRHP. September 7, 1989. The Cobble Hill Tunnel (also known as the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) is an abandoned Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, running through the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill. When open, it ran for about 2,517 feet (767 m) between ...
The Montauk Cutoff is an abandoned railway in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, that connected the Long Island Rail Road 's Main Line and Lower Montauk Branch . Helicopter view of Long Island City. The overgrown Montauk Cutoff is visible at the bottom left. The Montauk Cutoff is a cutoff approximately one-third of a mile in length [1 ...
H. Hawthorne–El Nido Line. Hetch Hetchy Railroad. High Bridge Branch. High Line. Highland Line (Pacific Electric) Hollywood Line. Hume-Bennett Lumber Company. Huntington Beach–La Bolsa Line.
The San Diego and Arizona Railway ( reporting mark SDA) was a 148-mile (238 km) short line U.S. railroad founded by entrepreneur John D. Spreckels, and dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved. It linked San Diego, its western terminus, with El Centro, its eastern terminus, where ...
The two companies completed a line from Pomeroy, on the Pennsylvania Railroad 's Main Line, south to Newark and southeast to Delaware City on the Delaware Bay, in about 1873, and merged in May of that year to form the Pennsylvania and Delaware Railway. This company's property was sold at foreclosure in August 1879 to two new companies, the ...