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The United States Railway Association (USRA) was a government-owned corporation created by United States federal law that oversaw the creation of Conrail, a railroad corporation that would acquire and operate bankrupt and other failing freight railroads. [1] USRA operated from 1974 to 1986.
The United States Railroad Administration (USRA) was the name of the nationalized railroad system of the United States between December 28, 1917, and March 1, 1920. [1] It was the largest American experiment with nationalization, and was undertaken against a background of war emergency following American entry into World War I .
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight railroads of North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States). [2] Amtrak and some regional commuter railroads are also members.
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 . Reporting marks are listed in parentheses.
The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America.Many of these entities changed names and merged over the years; this list is based upon the names current during the height of American railway unionism in the first decades of the 20th century.
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s).
The American Railway Association (ARA) was an industry trade group representing railroads in the United States.The organization had its inception in meetings of General Managers and ranking railroad operating officials known as Time Table Conventions, the first of which was held on October 1, 1872, at Louisville, Kentucky.
United States Racquetball Association, former name of USA Racquetball; United States Railroad Administration (1917-1920), the nationalized rail system during World War I USRA standard locomotives built by this administration; United States Railway Association (1974-1987), the corporation that oversaw the creation of Conrail