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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
For loads not originating on their lines, ISS shortlines still collect a portion of the freight rate. It was reported in 2009 that shortline railroads employ 20,000 people in the U.S., and own 30 percent of the nation's railroad tracks. About a quarter of all U.S. rail freight travels at least a small part of its journey over a short-line railroad.
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The San Joaquin Valley Railroad (reporting mark SJVR) is one of several short line railroad companies and is part of the Western Region Division of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It operates over about 371 miles (597 km) of owned or leased track primarily on several lines in California's Central Valley/San Joaquin Valley around Fresno and Bakersfield.
This one was thirty miles (48 km) long and cost $25,000 per mile to construct. The two railroads, competitive at first, joined forces forming a monopoly. Mine owners with mills in Colorado City adjacent to Colorado Springs organized and built The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Railroad or "Short Line" traversing the south slope of Pikes ...
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland, Maine. In New England, the first narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad was the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, which ran from North Billerica to Bedford in Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1877 to 1878. There were extensive 2 ft (610 mm) gauge lines in the Maine forests early in the 20th century ...
The car then became Washington Central (WCRC) #151 in 1993 before moving to BC Rail and their Pacific Starlight Dinner Train in 1997. There, the car retained the 151 number, but acquired the name “Moonglow.” With changes on the railroad, the operation was shut down and the car listed for sale by late 2002.
Consolidated Rail Corporation: Cleveland Short Line Railway: NYC: 1902 1915 New York Central Railroad: Cleveland and Southwestern Railway: B&O: 1887 1893 Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway: Cleveland and State Line Railroad: NKP: 1887 1887 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railway: B&O: 1895 1915 ...