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- Acadiana Railway - Shortline in southwest Louisiana
- Alabama & Florida Railway Co. - 76 miles from Georgiana to Geneva, Alabama
- Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway - Operates 140 miles of former Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) track from Kimbrough, Alabama to Pensacola, Florida, carrying paper, pulp, and paper products produced by three large companies in the forest products industry
- 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
- Alton & Southern Railway - Switching railroad in St. Louis, Missouri
- Angelina & Neches River Railroad - Operates 15 miles serving the paper mill and the other industries in Lufkin, Texas
- Arkansas & Missouri Railroad - Class III railroad that operates between Monett, Missouri and Fort Smith, Arkansas
- 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
- 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 operates 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 - Operates from Colfax to Kempton, and Strawn to Gibson City, Illinois; also known as The Bloomer Line
- Cagy Industries - Owns four shortlines in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia
- 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
- Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad - Former ICG Iowa Division extending from Chicago to Omaha, Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa
- 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 and Greenville Railway - Freight railroad between Columbus and Greenville, Mississippi
- Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (DM&E) - Operates 1,100 miles of track located principally in South Dakota and Minnesota; headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- 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 - Class III switching railroad operates over 300 miles in northeastern Texas
- Decatur Junction Railway Co. - 30 miles in Decatur, Illinois, connecting with the Canadian National Railway
- Delta Southern Railroad - Shortline freight railroad headquartered in Tallulah, Louisiana with 163 miles of track in Louisiana and 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
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway - Freight service through the Chicago metropolitan area, from Waukegan, Illinois to Gary, Indiana
- 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
- Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab - Regional carrier located within the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Oaxaca, operating a 1,805-kilometre network of main and branch lines; owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
- 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
- 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
- Great Western Railway of Iowa - Terminal switching carrier as well as a large storage yard, operating entirely within the city limits of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and consisting of approximately 30 miles of yard and industry tracks
- 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 - 810 miles of track serving as a vital transportation link, providing service to Northern Manitoba's remote resource-based industries; Canada
- 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 Unofficial Web Page - Operates 1,385 miles of trackage in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin; site contains news, rosters, photos, map, timetable, radio frequencies, and modeling information
- Illinois & Midland Railroad - Serves greater Peoria, Springfield, Havana and many other communities in central Illinois; owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
- Illinois Railnet - Operates two separate lines in Northern Illinois, both former BNSF branchlines that BNSF spun off in 1998
- Illinois Western Railroad - Class III linehaul railroad operating within the Howard M. Wolf Business Park in Greenville, Illinois
- Indiana Harbor Belt - Photos from the largest terminal railroad in the US; operates in northern Indiana/Greater Chicago
- 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 Chicago & Eastern Unofficial Web Page - 1400 mile regional railroad, based in Davenport, Iowa, serving the states of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
- 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 $7 million and less
- Iowa Traction Railroad - Electric freight railroad operates 13 miles between Clear Lake and Mason City, Iowa
- Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad - Operates 1400 miles between Chicago, Illinois, Kansas City, Missouri, and Minneapolis, Minnesota (formerly IMRL)
- 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
- 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 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; owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
- 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 Railway Company - Operates a daily transfer freight to the Alton & Southern at Gateway Yard in East St. Louis, Illinois; also provides locomotive repair and maintenance services; owned by Anheuser-Busch
- Manufacturers' Junction Railway - Operates six miles to serve the former Western Electric Hawthorne Works, a primary producer of telephones and related equipment; Cicero, Illinois
- 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 - Freight service between Newport, Arkansas and Pleasant Hill, Missouri
- 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 RailNet (NKCR) - Owns more than 500 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 - Freight service 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 - Former ATSF branch line which operates on 31 miles of track between Panhandle and Borger, Texas; transports carbon black, liquid petroleum gas, chemical petroleum products, scrap metal, fertilizer, and grain
- 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
- Pinsly Railroad Company - Operates railroads in Massachusetts, Arkansas, and Florida
- 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
- Port Bienville Railroad - Shortline serves the Port Bienville Industrial Park and interchanges with CSX in Ansley, Mississippi
- 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 - 6-mile line owned by Alcoa, operating between a UP connection and the Alcoa smelter near Sandow, Texas
- 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
- 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 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 - Shortline operator in 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
- TFM - Mexico railway network comprising 2,661 miles of track
- Timber Rock Railroad - Operates 340 miles in Texas and Louisiana, interchanging with BNSF and KCS
- Tishomingo Railroad - Serves the Tri-State Commerce Park in Iuka, Mississippi with Alco locomotives
- Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad - Operates 369 miles in Indiana and Illinois, hauling auto parts, chemicals, coal, fertilizer, food products, and steel
- Transtar - Operates water and rail transport services in the US
- Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway - Shortline operates 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
- 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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