This page provides a directory of freight railroads in the South Central USA and Mexico including regional railroads, shortline railroads, intermodal operations, and switching / terminal railroads.
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Acadiana Railway - Shortline railroad owns 57 miles of track in southwest Louisiana
Alliance Terminal Railroad - Terminal railroad provides freight switching and BNSF connection in Haslet, Texas
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 operates between Monett, Missouri and Fort Smith, Arkansas
Arkansas Midland Railroad - Freight 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 from Fordyce, Arkansas to Monroe, Louisiana
Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad - Shortline railroad operates 118 miles in Oklahoma including routes from Howe to McAlester and from Shawnee to Midwest City
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
Blacklands Railroad - Shortline operating 66 miles in northeast Texas, interchanging with Union Pacific in Mount Pleasant and with Kansas City Southern in Sulphur Springs
Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad - Shortline railroad operates between Blackwell, Oklahoma and the BNSF Railway at Wellington, Kansas
Brownsville & Rio Grande International Railroad - Shortline railroad serves the Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County, Texas
CG Railway - Shortline railroad and rail-ferry service connecting the railways of Southern Mexico to the railways serving the the US and Canada
Cimarron Valley Railroad - Operates 245 miles of track between Dodge City, Kansas and Boise City, Oklahoma and between Satanta and Springfield, Colorado
Corpus Christi Terminal Railroad - 30-mile shortline serves the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, interchanging with BNSF, Kansas City Southern, and Union Pacific
Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad - Switching terminal operates 187 miles of track around Dallas, Texas
Delta Southern Railroad - Shortline railroad serving northeast Louisiana and southeast Arkansas
DeQueen & Eastern and Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad - Shortline railroad operates 91 track miles in southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas
Escalante-Western Railway - Hauls coal to Western Fuels' Plains-Escalante Generating Station east of Gallup, Texas
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. - Freight railroad operates 18 miles of track from Fort Smith to Barling, Arkansas, interchanging with Union Pacific
Gardendale Railroad - Shortline railroad serves an industrial park in Gardendale, Texas, interchanging with Union Pacific
Gloster Southern Railroad - Operates 33 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
Hollis & Eastern Railroad - Operates approximately 13 miles in southwestern Oklahoma with a connection to BNSF in Altus
Hondo Railway - Operates a transloading railyard just west of San Antonio, Texas, interchanging with BNSF and Union Pacific
Ironhorse Resources - Operates five shortline railroads in Texas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, plus transloading facilities in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Donna, Texas
Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad - Freight railroad operates 840 miles and carries 50,000 annual carloads
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
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
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 & North West Railroad - Shortline railroad operates 68 miles between Gibsland, Louisiana and McNeil, Arkansas, interchanging with Union Pacific and Kansas City Southern
Louisiana Southern Railroad - Freight railroad operates 175 miles of former KCS routes in Louisiana
Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad - Freight 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
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
Panhandle Northern Railroad - Freight railroad operates 31 miles of former ATSF branchline between Panhandle and Borger, Texas
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
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
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
South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad - Freight railroad operates 404 miles in Kansas and Oklahoma and carries about 42,000 loaded railcars per year of a wide variety of commodities
Southern Switching Company - Shortline railroad operates eight miles in Abilene, Texas, interchanging with Union Pacific
Stillwater Central Railroad - Freight railroad operates 263 miles in Oklahoma, primarily handling mined, mineral, and industrial products
Temple & Central Texas Railway - Provides rail switching at the Central Pointe Rail Park in Temple, Texas
Texas & Northern Railway - 8-mile shortline serving Lone Star, Texas
Texas City Terminal Railway - Interchanges with Union Pacific and BNSF at Texas City, Texas
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 - Freight 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
Texas-Pacífico Transportation - Freight railroad operates 376 miles of track in West Texas
Timber Rock Railroad - Operates 340 miles in Texas and Louisiana, interchanging with BNSF and KCS
TNW Corporation - Operates four shortline railroads in Texas and Nebraska
Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway - Shortline operating between Sapulpa and Tulsa, Oklahoma
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
V&S Railway - Operates shortline railroads in Mississippi, Louisiana, Nevada, and California
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
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