The following railroads operate in Idaho.

Common freight carriers

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 ...

(CPR) *

City of Boise Railroad A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

(COB) *

BG&CM Railroad The BG&CM Railroad or Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad is a Class III shortline railroad located in North Central Idaho. Summary The BG&CM operated a line between Spalding and Cottonwood, along the former Second Subdivision of the ...

(BGCM) *

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) *

Boise Valley Railroad The Boise Valley Railroad is a shortline railroad in Idaho connecting Nampa with Boise and Wilder. It is owned and operated by Watco. History On 23 November 2009, the railroad began operations, running over an 11-mile(18 km) line between Wilde ...

(BVRR) * Eastern Idaho Railroad (EIRR) * Frontier Rail (FTRX) *

Great Northwest Railroad The Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW) is located in North Central Idaho, and runs a mainline of approximately . Known as the Camas Prairie Railroad until 1998 and then Camas Prairie Railnet, Watco purchased the line in 2004 and renamed it the GRNW. ...

(GRNW) *

Idaho and Sedalia Transportation Company Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyomi ...

(ISR) *

Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad The Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad (reporting mark: INPR) is a small railroad in southwestern Idaho and eastern Oregon in the United States. It owns 120 miles of former Union Pacific branch lines, and is a subsidiary of the Rio Grande Pacifi ...

(INPR) *

Montana Rail Link Montana Rail Link is a privately held Class II railroad in the United States. It operates on trackage originally built by the Northern Pacific Railway and leased from its successor BNSF. MRL is a unit of The Washington Companies and is he ...

(MRL) *

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) *

St. Maries River Railroad The St. Maries River Railroad is a shortline Class III railroad that operates 71 miles of freight service in northern Idaho. From 1980 until 2010, it was a subsidiary of Potlatch Corp. History and Trackage The St. Maries River Railroad beg ...

(STMA) * Union Pacific Railroad (UP) * Washington and Idaho Railway (WIR)

Passenger carriers

* Amtrak (AMTK) *

Silverwood Theme Park Steam Train Silverwood Theme Park is an amusement park located in the city of Athol in northern Idaho, United States, near the town of Coeur d'Alene, approximately from Spokane, Washington on US 95. Owner Gary Norton opened the park on June 20, 19 ...

Thunder Mountain Line Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightnin ...

Private

Idaho National Laboratory Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is one of the national laboratories of the United States Department of Energy and is managed by the Battelle Energy Alliance. While the laboratory does other research, historically it has been involved with nu ...

Defunct railroads

;Electric *

Inland Empire Railroad Inland may refer to: Places Sweden * Inland Fräkne Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Northern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Southern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Torpe Hundred, a hundred ...

Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Palouse Railway 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 and Eastern Railway and Power Company Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the C ...

* Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad

Notes

References

*Association of American Railroads (2003), . Retrieved May 9, 2005. * {{Idaho Idaho railroads Railroads