The Ultimate List of defunct United States railroads Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference

Akron, Canton and Youngstown (ACY)
Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS)
Alton and Southern Railway
Ann Arbor Railroad (AA)
Ashley, Drew and Northern (ADN)
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF or AT&SF)
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad (AB&C or ABC; formerly Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad )
Atlanta and Knoxville Railroad
Atlanta and West Point Railroad
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
Atlantic and East Carolina Railway
Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad
Atlantic and Western Railway
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
Attica and Allegheny Valley
Auto-Train Corporation (AUT)

B

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) first in the U.S.
Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (BOCT)
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR)
Bath and Hammondsport Railroad
Billerica and Bedford Railroad [1]
Black River and Western
Blue Ridge Railroad
Boston and Maine Corporation (B&M)
Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad
Bridgton and Saco River Railroad [2]
Buffalo, Attica and Arcade
Buffalo Creek Railroad (BCK)
Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway

C

Camas Prairie RailNet (CSP)
Camas Prairie Railroad
Canadian American Railroad (CDAC)
Cape Fear Railways, Inc.
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
Carrollton Railroad
Central of Georgia Railway (CofG) [3]
Central Pacific Railroad (CP)
Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ)
Central Vermont Railway (CV)
Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad
Chattahoochee Valley Railway
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (C&O)
Chessie System Railroads (C&O and B&O)
Chesterfield Railroad
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q, Burlington Route)
Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC)
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI)
Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
Chicago and Illinois Midland (C&IM)
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway (Monon)
Chicago, Madison and Northern (CMN)
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road)
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (North Shore Line)
Chicago and Northwestern (CNW or C&NW)
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island, or RI)
Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (South Shore Line)
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (Omaha Road, or CMO)
Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad (C&WI)
Cincinnati, Lebanon, and Northern Railroad (CL&N)
Cincinnati Northern Railway
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
City Point Railroad
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Big Four)
Cliffside Railroad
Clinchfield Railroad (CRR)
Colonel's Island Railroad
Colorado Central Railroad
Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S)
Columbus and Greenville Railway (CAGY)
Consolidated Rail Company (CR) (Conrail, now operating local freight service for CSX and NS) [4]
Corinth and Counce Railroad

D

Deepwater Railway
Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H)
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Lackawanna)
Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company
Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway
Denver Pacific Railroad
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (DRG or D&RG)
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW or D&RGW)
Denver and Salt Lake Railroad
Des Moines and Central Iowa Railway
Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railway
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DT&I)

E

East Cooper and Berkeley Railroad
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad
Edaville Railroad
Erie Railroad
Erie Lackawanna Railroad

F

Federal Creek Valley Railroad
Federal Valley Railroad
Fore River Railroad
Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway
Fort Worth and Denver Railroad
Fox River Valley Railroad
Fox Valley and Western

G

Galena and Chicago Union Railroad
Georgia Northern Railway
Georgia Railroad
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad (GS&F)
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad (GR&I)
Grand Trunk Railway (GT, presently little more than a name used by CN)
Great Northern Railroad (GN)
Green Bay and Western (GBW)
Greenville and Northern Railway
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad (GCSF)
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GM&O)

H

Hampton and Branchville Railroad
Harbor Springs Railway, a narrow gauge logging line in Michigan
Hartford and Slocomb Railroad
Hartwell Railway
Hudson River Railroad

I

Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (ICG)
International Great Northern (IGN)
Interstate Railroad Company

K

Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad (KB&S)
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (KO&G)
Kansas Pacific Railway
Kentucky and Tennessee Railway
Kodak Park Railroad (KPRR) [5]

L

Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad (LS&I)
Lake View and Collamer Railroad
Lancaster and Chester Railway
Laurinburg and Southern Railroad
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway
Lehigh and New England Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV)
Litchfield and Madison Railroad
Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railroad
Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad
Los Angeles Junction Railroad (LAJ)
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
Louisiana Southern Railway
Louisville, New Albany and Croydon Railroad (LNAC)
Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N)

M

Maine Central Railroad (MEC)
Macon and Birmingham Railway (formerly Macon and Birmingham Railroad)
Magma Arizona Railroad
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (M&C)
Marietta and Vincent Railroad Company (M&V)
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad
Marietta, Columbus and Cleveland Railroad (MCC)
Maryland and Pennsylvania (Ma and Pa)
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Michigan Central Railroad
Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad (M&C)
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway (MN&S)
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (MSTL)
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT or Katy)
Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
Mobile and Gulf Railroad
Monongahela Connecting Railroad
Monongahela Railway
Morristown and Erie Railroad
Moshassuck Valley Railroad
Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway

N

Narragansett Pier Railroad
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company
Nashville and Eastern Railroad Corporation (NERC)
Nashville and Knoxville Railroad Company
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad (completed 1858; reorganized into part of Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans Railroad in 1875 and then part of Illinois Central Railroad)
New Orleans Terminal Company
New York Central Railroad (NYC)
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road, NKP)
New York and Harlem Railroad
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH or New Haven)
New York, Ontario & Western Railway (NYOW)
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway (NW)
Northern Pacific Railway (NP)
Northern Vermont Railroad (NVR)
Northwestern Pacific (NWP)

O

Ohio River and Western Railroad
Old Augusta Railroad
Oregon Pacific and Eastern Railway (OP&E)
Oregon Short Line (OSL)

P

Penn Central (PC)
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) (joint venture of Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Railroad)
Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR, "Pennsy")
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (P&PU)
Pere Marquette Railroad (PM)
Petersburg Railroad
Pickens Railroad

R

Reading Railroad (RDG, pronounced "Redding")
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P)
Richmond and Danville Railroad (R&D)
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
Rio Grande Industries
Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS)
Rio Grande Western Railway (RGW)
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad ("Hojack")
Rutland Railroad

S

St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (SLSF or Frisco)
St. Louis Southwestern Railway (SSW or Cotton Belt)
Sandersville Railroad
San Diego & Arizona Railway (SD&A)
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad (SG&NA)
Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL)
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL)
Seaboard System Railroad (SBD)
Shepaug, Litchfield and Northern Railroad Company
Soo Line Railroad (SOO)
South Central Tennessee Railroad
South Side Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
Southern Railway (Southern, later NS with N&W)
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S)
Spokane International (SI)
Spring Grove, Avondale, and Cincinnati Railway
Springfield Terminal (ST)

T

Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (TAG)
Tennessee Central Railway Company
Terminal Railroad Association (TRRA)
Texas-Mexican Railway (TM)
Tidewater Railway
Toledo and Ohio Central Extension Railroad
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (TP&W)
Tonawanda Island Railroad (TIRL)
Tonawanda Valley and Cuba
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo (TH&B)

U

Unadilla Valley Railway Company [6]
United New Jersey Railroad and Canals Company
Utah and Northern Railway

V

W

Wabash Railroad (WAB, now part of Norfolk Southern)
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad (WB&A)
Western and Atlantic Railroad (W&A)
Western Maryland Railway (WM)
Western Pacific Railroad (WP)
Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway
Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad (WICT)
Wisconsin Central (WC)

Commuter railroads

Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT, now part of NYC's MTA)
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (defunct, dismantled in 1940)
Independent Subway (IND, now NYC's MTA)
Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT, now NYC's MTA)
Key System (San Francisco area)
Los Angeles Railway (LARy)
Pacific Electric Railway (PE)
San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy)
Twin City Rapid Transit (TCRT, or TCL for Twin City Lines)