Freight Railroads - Central Region
- Acadiana Railway - Shortline railroad owns 57 miles of track in southwest Louisiana
- Alabama & Florida Railway Co. - Operates 43 miles from Andalusia to Geneva, Alabama
- Alabama & Tennessee River Railway - Operates 120 miles of track extending from Birmingham to the rail barge terminal at the Port of Guntersville, Alabama
- Alabama Railroad Co. - 60-miles of former CSX trackage from Flomaton to Corduroy, Alabama
- Alabama Southern Railroad - Operates 85 miles from Columbus, Mississippi to Birmingham, Alabama on a former KCS route
- Alabama Warrior Railway - 15-mile shortline hauls coal in the Birmingham, Alabama area
- Alton & Southern Railway - Switching railroad in St. Louis, Missouri
- Angelina & Neches River Railroad - Operates 12 miles of mainline plus 11 miles of branch lines in and around Lufkin, Texas, with an interchange to Union Pacific
- Arkansas & Missouri Railroad - Class III railroad that operates between Monett, Missouri and Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Arkansas Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad - 53-mile shortline operates from Crossett to Monroe, Louisiana
- Arkansas Midland Railroad - Operates over 100 miles of track on four branch lines, interchanging with UP at North Little Rock, Gurdon, Lexa, and Malvern, Arkansas
- Arkansas Southern Railroad - Operates 61 miles of two former KCS branches in Oklahoma and Arkansas
- Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad - Operates 52 miles between Fordyce, Arkansas and Monroe, Louisiana
- AT&L Railroad - Grain hauler operates 40 miles from a UP connection at El Reno to Watonga, Oklahoma
- Austin Western Railroad - Operates 155 miles of track from Llano to Giddings, Texas
- Baton Rouge Southern Railroad - Industrial switching and railcar storage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Bauxite & Northern Railway - Provides interplant switching services at Bauxite Junction, Arkansas
- Belt Railway Company of Chicago, The - Official site of the Chicago Belt Line with photos, roster, industry list, customer tools, and more about this terminal railroad operating more than 300 miles around Chicago
- Birmingham Southern Railroad - Serves the region's largest steel-making and manufacturing center; operates between Thomas, Bessemer, and Port Birmingham, Alabama
- Blacklands Railroad - Shortline operating 66 miles in northeast Texas, interchanging with Union Pacific in Mount Pleasant and with Kansas City Southern in Sulphur Springs
- Bloomer Shipper's Connecting Railroad (Bloomer Line) - Shortline railroad operating in Ford, Mclean, and Livingston counties of Illinois, serving eight Alliance Grain elevators by transporting corn, soybeans, and wheat to Gibson City
- Burlington Junction Railway - Operates seven industrial railroads in the Iowa cities of Burlington, West Burlington, Mt. Pleasant, and Ottumwa and the Illinois cities of Quincy, Rochelle, and Montgomery
- Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway - Provides freight service to ten eastern Iowa communities over 100 miles of track
- Central Manitoba Railway - Operates the former CN Pine Falls and Carman subdivisions as a shortline railroad, approximately 118 miles from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- CG Railway - Shortline railroad and rail-ferry service connecting the railways of Southern Mexico to the railways serving the the US and Canada
- Chicago Rail Link - Provides switching and terminal service over 72 miles of track and trackage rights in Chicago, Illinois
- Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad - 87-mile short line freight carrier connecting Northwest Indiana's industrial complex with 19 railroads, including those within the Chicago Switching District
- Cimarron Valley Railroad - Operates 254 miles of track between Dodge City, Kansas and Boise City, Oklahoma and between Satanta and Springfield, Colorado
- Columbia Terminal (COLT) Railroad - Short line railroad owned by the City of Columbia, Missouri
- Columbus & Greenville Railway - Freight railroad between Columbus and Greenville, Mississippi
- Conecuh Valley Railroad - Shortline operates 15 miles between Troy and Goshen, Alabama, with a connection to CSX
- Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Unofficial Homepage - Roster, timetable, and operations information of the DM&E
- Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad - Operates 555 miles of track in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, with headquarters in Bismarck
- Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad - Switching terminal operates 187 miles of track around Dallas, Texas
- Decatur Junction Railway Co. - 30 miles in Decatur, Illinois, connecting with the Canadian National Railway
- Delta Southern Railroad - Shortline railroad serving northeast Louisiana and southeast Arkansas
- Eastern Alabama Railway - Freight service between Talladega and Sylacauga, Alabama
- Eastern Idaho Railroad - Operates 270 miles and carries a wide variety of products in it's near 35,000 annual car load capacity
- Effingham Railroad Company - Operates in the Effingham Business Park; Effingham, Illinois
- Escalante-Western Railway - Hauls coal to Western Fuels' Plains-Escalante Generating Station east of Gallup, Texas
- Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad - 208 mile shortline from Ontonagon, Michigan to Green Bay, WI
- Fairfield Southern Company - Contract carrier operating within US Steel's Fairfield Works at Fairfield, Alabama; wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham Southern Company
- Farmrail - Freight service over 347 main-line miles to 29 communities in 12 rural Oklahoma counties
- Ferromex - Official site of Ferrocarril Mexicano, operating approximately 8000km of freight service throughout northwestern Mexico
- Ferrosur - Official site of Ferrocarril del Sureste, operating approximately 1500km, including the important Mexico City-Oriziba-Veracruz line linking Mexico City with the Gulf ports of Vera Cruz and Coatzacoalcos
- Ferrovalle - Terminal railroad operator near Mexico City, Mexico
- Fordyce & Princeton Railroad - Operates 57 miles from Crossett to Fordyce, Arkansas
- Fort Smith Railroad Co. - 18 miles of track from Fort Smith to Barling, Arkansas; primary interchange with Union Pacific
- Garden City Western Railway - 40-mile rail line based in Garden City, Kansas serving a regional agricultural market critical to both wheat and cattle
- Gloster Southern Railroad - Operates 35 miles between Gloster, Mississippi and Slaughter, Louisiana
- Grupo TMM - Integrated logistics and transportation company in Mexico, providing rail service with Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana and the Tex-Mex Railway
- Gulf & Ohio Railways - Operates eight shortline railroads in Alabama, North Carolina, and Tennessee, plus the Knoxville Locomotive Works and Three Rivers Rambler tourist railroad
- Hollis & Eastern Railroad - Operates approximately 13 miles in southwestern Oklahoma with a connection to BNSF in Altus
- Hudson Bay Railway - Operates 810 miles of track providing service to Northern Manitoba's remote resource-based industries
- Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority - Provides freight service in southern Madison County and connects with Norfolk Southern in Huntsville, Alabama
- I&M Rail Link - System timetables and rosters of the IMRL which operated 1,385 miles of trackage in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, now owned by the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern
- Illinois & Midland Railroad - Serves greater Peoria, Springfield, Havana, and other communities in central Illinois
- Illinois Central Railroad On-Line - Unofficial site provides a guide to the operations and rosters of the Illinois Central and subsidiaries Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad and Cedar River Railroad
- Illinois Central Resource Page - Photos, rosters, track charts, and timetables from the Illinois Central and Illinois Central Gulf
- Illinois Railway - Operates 113 miles of track just west of the Chicago suburbs, serving mineral producers such as U.S. Silica, Wedron Silica, and Unimin Corp
- Illinois Western Railroad - Class III linehaul railroad operating within the Howard M. Wolf Business Park in Greenville, Illinois
- Indiana Harbor Belt Archive - History, rosters, maps, timetables, and photos from the largest terminal railroad in the United States
- Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad - Official IHB site with customer tools, news, maps, photos, company store, and more about this switch carrier operating more than 300 miles around Chicago
- Indiana Rail Road - 155-mile shortline railroad serving customers in central and southwest Indiana and east-central Illinois
- Iowa Interstate Photo Archive and Railfan's Guide - Photos, rosters, railfan guide, history, modeling, and more about the regional Iowa Interstate Railroad
- Iowa Interstate Railroad - Operates over 500 miles between Omaha, Nebraska and Chicago, Illinois on the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific mainline
- Iowa Northern Railway - Operates 162 miles between Manly and Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Iowa Office of Rail Transportation - Details passenger and freight rail services in the state of Iowa
- Iowa Pacific Holdings - Formed in 2001 to acquire railroads and create rail-related businesses, with a focus on feeder railroads with annual revenues of $10 million and less
- Iowa Traction Railroad - Electric freight railroad operates 13 miles between Clear Lake and Mason City, Iowa
- Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad - Unofficial site with IC&E rosters, frequencies, timetable, map, and more
- Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Railroad - Operates freight service over 155 miles in Illinois and Indiana
- Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad - At 840 miles, and carrying over 55,000 carloads annually, the K&O Railroad is one of the largest single shortlines in the industry
- Kansas City Southern de Mexico (KCSM) - Operates the primary rail route in northern Mexico linking Mexico City with Laredo, Texas, where over 50 percent of US-Mexico trade crosses the border
- KAW River Railroad - Operates 30 miles on both the Missouri and Kansas sides of Kansas City and in Clay County, Missouri
- Kentucky West Tennessee Railway - Shortline serves northwest Tennessee and southwest Kentucky
- Keokuk Junction Railway Co. - Operates 147 miles in Iowa and Illinois
- Kiamichi Railroad - Operates 230 miles of former Burlington Northern trackage in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas, with a traffic base including aggregates, cement, food items, paper, pulp board, flour, timber, raw logs, scrap paper, metals, fertilizer, coal, chemicals, plastics, and grain
- Kosciusko & Southwestern Railway - Operates 21 miles of former Illinois Central Railroad trackage from Aberdeen Junction (near Durant) to Kosciusko, Mississippi; owned by the Mississippi Rail Group
- Kyle Railroad Company - Operates 692 miles in the northern tier of Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Colorado, serving the agriculture rich winter wheat and feed grain region of the high plains
- Little Rock & Western Railway - Operates 79 miles from Danville to Pulaski, Arkansas
- Little Rock Port Authority Railroad - Switching railroad that serves the Little Rock Port Industrial Park and connects with UP and BNSF in Arkansas
- Louisiana & Delta Railroad - Operates 114 miles in southern Louisiana, hauling carbon black, sugar and molasses, pipe, rice, and paper products
- Louisiana Southern Railroad - Operates 175 miles of former KCS routes in Louisiana
- Luxapalila Valley Railroad - Operates 34 miles between Columbus, Mississippi and Belk, Alabama
- Manufacturers' Junction Railway - 6-mile switching line in Cicero, Illinois
- Meridian & Bigbee Railroad - Operates 189 miles from Meridian, Mississippi to Burkeville, Alabama
- Meridian Southern Railway - 55 mile shortline between Meridian and Waynesboro, Mississippi
- Minnesota Commercial Railway - Regional and terminal switching railroad that operates 150 miles of trackage in metropolitan Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Minnesota
- Mississippi Central Railroad Co. - 51 miles from Oxford, Mississippi to Grand Junction, Tennessee, interchanging with Norfolk Southern and BNSF
- Mississippi Export Railroad - 42-mile shortline from Evanston to Pascagoula, Mississippi
- Mississippi Southern Railroad - 28 miles of mainline track between Newton and Bay Springs, Mississippi, and an interchange with the KCS
- Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad - Operates 540 miles between Newport, Arkansas and Pleasant Hill, Missouri, connecting with UP, BNSF, and KCS
- Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad - Operates 7 miles from Camden, Texas to a connection with UP at Moscow
- Nebraska Central Railroad - 340 mile network composed of five former UPRR branch lines and one former BNSF branch line
- Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railway - Operates 559 track miles in southwest Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado
- New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway - Former 32-mile Union Pacific branch line located outside New Orleans, Louisiana
- New Orleans Public Belt Railroad - Interchanges with six Class I railroads in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Northern Lines - Formed in 2004 to operate BNSF trackage in central Minnesota
- Northern Plains Rail Services - Operates the Northern Plains Railroad and offers railroad car and locomotive services; Fordville, North Dakota
- Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice (OL&B) Railway - Class III switching railroad that interchanges cars from UP and BNSF in Lincoln, Nebraska
- Otter Tail Valley Railroad - Operates 71 miles between Fergus Falls and Dilworth Yard, Minnesota, connecting with BNSF near Fargo, North Dakota
- Paducah & Louisville Railway - Full-service, 270-mile, regional railroad connects directly with five Class I carriers in the western half of Kentucky
- Panhandle Northern Railroad - Operates 31 miles of former ATSF branchline between Panhandle and Borger, Texas
- Patriot Rail Corp. - Operates the 118-mile Tennessee Southern Railroad in Tennessee and the 26-mile Rarus Railway in Montana
- Pecos Valley Southern Railway - Operates 29 miles from Saragosa to a UP connection at Pecos, Texas
- Permian Basin Railways - Holding company owns the Texas – New Mexico Railroad, West Texas & Lubbock Railway, Arizona Eastern Railway, and San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad
- Pioneer Industrial Railway Co. - Interline carrier serving Peoria, Illinois
- Pioneer Railcorp - Shortline railroad holding company operating 16 railroads totaling over 535 miles in ten states
- Point Comfort & Northern Railway - Serves the Port of Port Lavaca-Point Comfort and interchanges with Union Pacific in Lolita, Texas
- Port Terminal Railroad Association - Maintains 154 miles of track, providing BNSF, KCS, and UP equal access and serving 150 industries around the Port of Houston, Texas
- Progressive Rail Incorporated - Operates shortline railroad operations in the Upper Midwest; Lakeville, Minnesota
- Red River Valley & Western Railroad - 600-mile regional railroad in North Dakota, began operations in 1987 on track acquired from BN
- Rio Valley Switching Company - Interchanges with Union Pacific in Harlingen, Texas and extends 55 miles west to Mission, Edinburg, and the McAllen Foreign Trade Zone
- Rockdale, Sandow & Southern Railroad - Serves the Alcoa smelter near Sandow, Texas, with an interchange to Union Pacific in Marjorie
- Sand Springs Railway - Operates 32 miles between Sand Springs and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Semo Port Railroad - Provides local switch service at the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority, with an interchange to UP and BNSF; Scott City, Missouri
- Shawnee Terminal Railway Co. - Operates 2.5 miles in Cairo, Illinois and interchanges with Canadian National
- Soo Line Online - Photos, maps, and rosters of the Soo Line and Upper Midwest railroads
- South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad - Operates 404 miles in Kansas and Oklahoma and carries about 42,000 loaded railcars per year of a wide variety of commodities
- Stillwater Central Railroad - Operates 263 miles in Oklahoma, primarily handling mined, mineral, and industrial products
- Tazewell & Peoria Railroad - Terminal switching railroad in Peoria, Illinois
- Tennessee Southern Railroad - Operates 118 miles from Columbia, Tennessee to Pulaski, Tennessee and Florence, Alabama
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) - Interchanges rail traffic in St. Louis, Missouri
- Texas & Northern Railway - 8-mile shortline serving Lone Star, Texas
- Texas City Terminal Railway - Rail service at the eighth largest US port with connections to UP and BNSF
- Texas Mexican Railway (Tex Mex) - 157-mile line between Laredo and Corpus Christi, Texas with an additional 400 miles of trackage rights in Texas
- Texas Northeastern Railroad - Operates west from Bonham through Bells to Sherman, Texas, and east from New Boston to Texarkana, Texas
- Texas – New Mexico Railroad - Operates 104 miles from a Union Pacific connection at Monahans, Texas to Lovington, New Mexico, serving the oil fields of west Texas and southeast New Mexico
- Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad - Operates 40 miles between the West Line, Arkansas and Valliant, Oklahoma
- Three Notch Railroad - Operates 34 miles between a connection with CSX at Georgiana, Alabama and a connection with the Alabama & Florida Railroad at Andalusia, Alabama
- Timber Rock Railroad - Operates 340 miles in Texas and Louisiana, interchanging with BNSF and KCS
- Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad - Operates 369 miles from Mapleton, Illinois through Peoria across Illinois to Logansport, Indiana
- Tomahawk Railway - Shortline operates between Tomahawk and Bradley, Wisconsin
- Transtar - Operates water and rail transport services in the US
- Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway - Shortline operating between Sapulpa and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Twin Cities & Western Railroad - Operates between Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota and Milbank, South Dakota, over the former Soo Line's "Ortonville Line"
- Twin Cities & Western Railroad - History, photos, operations details, system map, rosters, and railfan guide to the TC&W
- TXU Martin Lake Line - Electric railroad serves Texas Utilities' (TXU) Martin Lake generating station with locally mined lignite
- TXU Monticello Line - Electric railroad serves Texas Utilities' (TXU) Monticello generating plant with locally mined lignite
- U.S. Railways, Inc. - Freight railway services including intra-plant switching in the midwestern US
- Vandalia Railroad Co. - Operates 3.5 miles in Vandalia, Illinois and interchanges with CSX
- Vicksburg Southern Railroad - Operates 21 miles of track and interchanges with Kansas City Southern at Vicksburg, Mississippi
- West Texas & Lubbock Railway - Operates 107 miles on two lines extending from Lubbock, Texas to Seagraves and Whiteface, Texas, serving agriculture and oil fields
- Wichita, Tillman, and Jackson Railway - 100 mile property composed of a former UPRR branch line and a Rock Island line operating in Texas and Oklahoma
- Wiregrass Central Railroad - Operates 17 miles between Enterprise and Newton, Alabama, with a connection to CSX
- Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Company - Operates over 645 miles of track throughout south central Wisconsin and northern Illinois
- Wisconsin Central/CN 6th Division - History and photos of the Wisconsin Central by Stephen Guthrie
- Wisconsin Northern Railroad - Unofficial site with map, roster, and photos of a shortline operated by Progressive Rail
- Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission - Public ownership and private operation preserves rail service in southwestern Wisconsin; commission owns over 300 miles of track operated by Wisconsin & Southern
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