Missouri_Pacific_Train_Number_1123_(MSA)

The following

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s operate in the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...

Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...

Common freight carriers

Arkansas and Missouri Railroad The Arkansas and Missouri Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas. The A&M, as it is known, operates of line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Monett, Missouri. The railroad interchanges freight cars wit ...

(AM) * Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) * Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad (BGKX) *

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

(BNSF) * Burlington Junction Railway (BJRY) *

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...

(CP) through subsidiary

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Before its purchase, it was the largest Class II railroad in the United States, operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in ...

(DME) *

Central Midland Railway The Central Midland Railway , a division of Progressive Rail Incorporated of Lakeville, Minnesota, was a short line railroad in the U.S. state of Missouri, operating under lease of the former St. Louis Subdivision of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pac ...

(CMR) operates Missouri Central Railroad (MOC) *

Columbia Terminal Railroad The Columbia Terminal Railroad, Columbia Branch Railroad, or COLT is a local, short-line, freight railroad in Boone County, Missouri owned by and serving the city of Columbia, Missouri. The railroad runs from Columbia to the Norfolk Southern Railw ...

(CT) * FTRL Railway (FTRL) *

Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...

(KCS) *

Kansas City Terminal Railway The Kansas City Terminal Railway is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the United States' second largest rail hub after Chicago. It is operated ...

(KCT) * Kaw River Railroad (KAW) * Missouri North Central Railroad (MNC) *

Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad The Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad, LLC is a Class III shortline railroad headquartered in Carthage, Missouri. It is not to be confused with the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad which connected Joplin, Missouri with Helena, Arkansa ...

(MNA) *

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the company operates 19,420 route miles (31 ...

(NS) *

Ozark Valley Railroad The Ozark Valley Railroad is a 27-mile shortline railroad connecting Mexico, Missouri, and Fulton, Missouri. Connection The Kansas City Southern Railway links to the Ozark Valley Railroad at Mexico, Missouri. Motive Power * EMD GP7 The E ...

(OVRR) * Pemiscot County Port Railroad (PCPA) * SEMO Port Railroad (SE) *

South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is a short line railroad which operates of rail lines in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri that used to belong to Missouri Pacific, Frisco and Santa Fe lines. SKOL is a unit of Watco. The present railroad was create ...

(SKOL) *

Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis is a Class III switching and terminal railroad that handles traffic in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. It is co-owned by five of the six Class I railroads that reach the city. Present ope ...

(TRRA) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(UP) including subsidiary Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company * West Belt Railroad (WBRW)

Private freight carriers

TransitAmerica Services TransitAmerica Services, Inc. is an American commuter rail corporation headquartered in St Joseph, Missouri. Corporate history In November 2002, Herzog Contracting Corp. and Stagecoach Group announced a corporate partnership to form TransitAme ...

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

(AMTK) * Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad * Branson Scenic Railway * St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway ;Electric railways and predecessors * Cape Girardeau – Jackson Interurban Railway * East St. Louis and Suburban Railway *

Illinois Terminal Company The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company (reporting marks "ITC"), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from ...

Illinois Terminal Railroad The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company (reporting marks "ITC"), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from ...

(ITC) * Interurban South Side Railway *

Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway The Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway was an electrified interurban railway that ran between Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Joseph, Missouri, from the early 1900s until 1933. It was the longest of the various interurbans serving Kansa ...

* Kansas City Interurban Railway * Kansas City, Kaw Valley Railroad *

Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway The Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway Railway Equipment and Publication Company, The Official Railway Equipment Register', June 1917, p. 843 was an interurban electric railway that ran between the American cities of Lawrence, Kansas, and K ...

(KV&W, KVW) *

Kansas City Public Service Company The Kansas City Public Service Company was the most well known name for a series of public transit operators in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, until being sold to the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in 1969. Streetcar operations in Kansas ...

* Kansas City and Westport Belt Railway (KCWB) * Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway * St. Francois County Electric Railroad *

St. Francois County Railroad ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...

* St. Francois County Railway * St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway *

St. Louis and Florissant Railroad ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy an ...

* St. Louis and Suburban Railway * Southwest Missouri Railroad Company * Union Railway (Missouri) (St. Louis) * Union Railroad (Missouri) (St. Joseph) * West End Narrow Gauge Railroad ;Heritage railways * Kansas City Railroad Museum

Notes

References

*Association of American Railroads (2003), . Retrieved May 11, 2005. *

External links

Railroads in Missouri
a gallery of historic photos from the Missouri State Archives {{Missouri

Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...