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Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

Common freight carriers

Ballard Terminal Railroad The Ballard Terminal Railroad Company LLC operates two Class III short line terminal railroads in western Washington, United States. Founded in 1997 to operate a three-mile spur through Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, the Ballard Terminal Rai ...

(BDTL) * BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Cascade & Columbia River Railroad (CSCD) (GWRR) * Central Washington Railroad (CWRR) (CBRW) * Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW) *

Columbia and Cowlitz Railway The Columbia and Cowlitz Railway is a short-line railroad owned by Patriot Rail Corporation, and is headquartered in Longview, Washington. The railroad serves an route from the Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Longview to the junction just outsid ...

(CLC) (PATR) * Columbia Walla Walla Railroad (CWW) (FTRX) * Eastside Freight Railroad (EFRX) (BDTL) *

Frontier Rail A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts o ...

(FTRX) * Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW) (WATX) * Kennewick Terminal Railroad (KET) (FTRX) * Kettle Falls International Railway (KFR) * Meeker Southern Railroad (MSN) (BDTL) * Montana Rail Link (MRL) * Mount Vernon Terminal Railway (MVT) * Olympia and Belmore Railroad (OYLO) (GWRR) *

Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad The Palouse ( ) is a distinct geographic region of the northwestern United States, encompassing parts of north central Idaho, southeastern Washington, and, by some definitions, parts of northeast Oregon. It is a major agricultural area, primar ...

(PCC) (WATX) *

Patriot Woods Railroad A patriot is a person with the quality of patriotism. Patriot may also refer to: Political and military groups United States * Patriot (American Revolution), those who supported the cause of independence in the American Revolution * Patrio ...

(PAWR) (PATR) *

Pend Oreille Valley Railroad The Pend Oreille Valley Railroad is a shortline railroad located in Usk, in northeast Washington. Route The POVA serves the communities of Usk, Dalkena, Newport, Oldtown, Priest River, Laclede and has trackage rights from Dover- Sandpoint ...

(POVA) *

Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad The Lewis and Clark Railway is a county-owned railroad located in Clark County, Washington. The line is long, beginning at the BNSF interchange at Rye Junction in Vancouver, Washington and stretching northeast, passing through Brush Prairie a ...

(PVJR) operates

Lewis and Clark Railway The Lewis and Clark Railway is a county-owned railroad located in Clark County, Washington. The line is long, beginning at the BNSF interchange at Rye Junction in Vancouver, Washington and stretching northeast, passing through Brush Prairie a ...

(LINC) *

Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad The Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad operates over 150 miles of track serving the U.S. State of Washington, and is headquartered in Centralia, Washington where interchanges with the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad are made. History ...

(PSAP) (GWRR) * Rainier Rail (RANR) (FTRX) * St. Paul & Pacific Northwest Railroad (STPP) * Tri-City Railroad (TCRY) *

Tacoma Rail Tacoma Rail is a publicly owned Class III shortline railroad. It is owned by the city of Tacoma, Washington and operated as a public utility. It is one of three operating divisions of the municipally-owned Tacoma Public Utilities service, but unl ...

(TMBL, TRMW) *

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) * Washington Eastern Railroad (WER) * Washington and Idaho Railway (WIR) (MWPX) * Washington Royal Line (WRL) (FTRX)

Private freight carriers

* Greenbrier Rail Services * Longview Switching Company *

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(USAX)

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

(AMTK) * Chehalis–Centralia Railroad *

Chelatchie Prairie Railroad The Chelatchie Prairie Railroad is a heritage railroad in Yacolt, Washington. Formerly a Northern Pacific branchline and operated by the Longview, Portland and Northern Railway for many years, in the 1980s and 1990s the line went through a numbe ...

* Lake Whatcom Railway * Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad *

Seattle Streetcar The Seattle Streetcar is a system of two modern streetcar lines operating in the city of Seattle, Washington. The South Lake Union line opened first in 2007 and was followed by the First Hill line in 2016. The two lines are unconnected, but s ...

* Snoqualmie Valley Railroad *

Sound Transit Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It operates the Link light rail system in Seattle and Tacoma, ...

(Sounder, Tacoma Link, and Central Link) * Yakima Electric Railway Museum

Defunct railroads

;Electric * Aberdeen Electric Company * Arlington Heights Motor Railway * City Park Railway *

Coeur d'Alene and Spokane Railway Cœur is the French word for heart, and may refer to: * ''Cœurs'', a 2006 French film by Alain Resnais * Coeur (playing cards), a brand of playing card produced by VEB Altenburg in East Germany People with the surname * Jacques Cœur ( – 1456 ...

* Everett Railway and Electric Company * Everett Railway, Light and Water Company * Grays Harbor Railway and Light Company * Grays Harbor Electric Company * Inland Empire Railroad * Loyal Railway * North Shore Electric Company * Olympia Light and Power Company *

Pacific Northwest Traction Company The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

* Pacific Traction Company *

Puget Sound Electric Railway The Puget Sound Electric Railway was an interurban railway that ran for 38 milesPerpetual Motion Pictures. '' The Seattle-Tacoma Railway: A Journey into the Past''. Seattle, WA. 1996. between Tacoma and Seattle, Washington in the first quarter of ...

* Puget Sound International Railway and Power Company * Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company * Ross Park Street Railway * Seattle Electric Company * Seattle Municipal Railway * Seattle and Rainier Beach Railway * Seattle and Renton Railway * Seattle, Renton and Southern Railway * South Bend Electric Company * Spokane Cable Railway * Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Palouse Railway * Spokane and Eastern Railway and Power Company * Spokane Electric Railway * Spokane and Inland Railway *

Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad The Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Company (S.&I.E.R.R.Co.) was an electrified interurban railway operating in Spokane, Washington and vicinity, extending into northern and central Idaho. The system originated in several predecessor roads be ...

* Spokane Street Railway * Spokane Traction Company * Tacoma Railway and Motor Company * Tacoma Railway and Power Company * Tacoma Railways * Tacoma Traction Company * Twin City Electric Company * Twin City Light and Traction Company * Vancouver Traction Company * Walla Walla Valley Railway (WWV) * Walla Walla Valley Traction Company * Washington–Oregon Corporation * Washington Water Power Company * Whatcom County Railway and Light Company *

Willapa Electric Company The Willapa Electric Company was an electric railway and electric utility company incorporated on August 2, 1913, as successor to the Willapa Harbor Railway, a electric street railway extending from Raymond to South Bend, Washington, in addition ...

* Willapa Harbor Railway * Yakima Valley Transportation Company (YVT)

Notes

References

*Washington State Department of Transportation (September 2008),
Washington State Rail System Map
' ( PDF). Retrieved May 3, 2008. *Washington State Department of Transportation (2004),
Railroads in Washington State
'. Retrieved May 6, 2005. *Watco Companies,

'. Retrieved August 15, 2005.

External links

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