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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 ...
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 ...
Florida East Coast Railway: Jacksonville, Florida–Miami [1930] 1927–1931 Black Diamond: Lehigh Valley Reading: Philadelphia–New York City–Buffalo, New York [1952] 1896–1959 Black Gold: Frisco: Tulsa, Oklahoma–Fort Worth, Texas [1952] 1938–1959 Black Hawk: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (–1970) Burlington Northern (6 weeks in 1970)
In 2021, the 117th United States Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which directly appropriated $66 billion for rail over a five-year period, of which at least $18 billion is designated for expanding passenger rail service to new corridors, and it authorized an additional $36 billion ...
In November 2023, the White House announced $16.4 billion in new funding for 25 passenger rail projects on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, which is the busiest U.S. rail corridor with 800,000 daily ...
Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railway: COER Decatur Junction Railway: DT Eastern Illinois Railroad: EIRC Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal Railroad: FFGC Foster Townsend Rail Logistics: FTRL Illinois Railway: IR Keokuk Junction Railway: KJRY Peoria & Western Railway PWRY Tazewell & Peoria Railroad: TZPR Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway: TPW
After the Southern Railway opted-in to Amtrak in 1979, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1983, Amtrak was left as the sole long-distance train operator in the US. In the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA), Congress divided Amtrak's routes into three strictly-defined service lines: Northeast Corridor ...
1890 map of the national rail network. In United States railroading, the term national rail network, sometimes termed "U.S. rail network", [1] refers to the entire network of interconnected standard gauge rail lines in North America.