The following railroads operate or once operated in the

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Current railroads

Freight

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...

(CSXT)

Passenger

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)

Commuter

MARC Train MARC (Maryland Area Rail Commuter) is a commuter rail system in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. MARC is administered by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) and operated under contract by Alstom and Amtrak on track owned by ...

(MARC) *

Virginia Railway Express Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from ...

(VREX) *

Washington Metro The Washington Metro (or simply Metro), formally the Metrorail,Google Books search/preview

Defunct railroads

Electric

* Alexandria, Barcroft and Washington Transit Company *

Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad The Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company was the fourth streetcar company to operate in Washington, D.C., and the first to cross the Anacostia River. It was chartered in 1870, authorized by Congress in 1875 and built later that year. The ...

* Baltimore and Ocean City Railway * Baltimore and Washington Transit Company *

Brightwood Railway Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C., were drawn by horses and carried people short distances on flat terrain; but the introduction of clean ...

* Capital Traction Company *

Capital Transit Company Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C., were drawn by horse car, horses and carried people short distances on flat terrain; but the introductio ...

Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway The Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway (later, the Belt Railway) was a Tram, street railway company in Washington, D.C., from 1875 to 1898. It was the sixth and final company to start during the horse car era. It operated on a loo ...

* City and Suburban Railway *

Columbia Railway The Columbia Railway was the third streetcar company to operate in Washington, D.C. It was incorporated and started operations in 1870, running from the Treasury Building along H Street NW/NE to the city boundary at 15th Street NE. It switched to ...

Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C., were drawn by horse car, horses and carried people short distances on flat terrain; but the introductio ...

Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad The Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad (GF&OD) was an interurban trolley line that ran in Northern Virginia during the early 20th century. History Chartered in 1900 by a group of local landowners and acquired in 1902 by John Roll McLean (o ...

Metropolitan Railroad The Metropolitan Railroad was the second streetcar company to operate in Washington, D.C., United States. It was incorporated and started operations in 1864, running from the Capitol to the War Department and along H Street NW in downtown. It a ...

Rock Creek Railway The Rock Creek Railway was one of the first electric streetcar companies in Washington, D.C., and the first to extend into Maryland. It was incorporated in 1888, started operations in 1890, and by 1892 ran some five miles from the Cardoza/Shaw nei ...

Tennallytown and Rockville Railroad A trio of streetcar companies provided service along a single 10-mile line from the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Georgetown northward and ultimately to Rockville, Maryland, in the early decades of the 20th century. In 1890, the Georgetown a ...

* Washington and Georgetown Railroad * Washington and Glen Echo Railroad * Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway *

Washington and Old Dominion Railway The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (colloquially referred to as the W&OD) was an intrastate short-line railroad located in Northern Virginia, United States. The rail transport, railroad was a successor to the bankruptcy, bankrupt Washingto ...

* Washington and Rockville Railway * Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad *

Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway (WB&A) was an American railroad of central Maryland and Washington, D.C., built in the 19th and 20th century. The WB&A absorbed two older railroads, the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad an ...

* Washington, Berwyn and Laurel Electric Railway * Washington Interurban Railway *

Washington Railway and Electric Company The Washington Railway and Electric Company (WR&E) was the larger of the two major street railway companies in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, until 1933. At that time, it was merged with its main competitor, the Capital Tractio ...

* Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad *

Washington Traction and Electric Company The Washington Railway and Electric Company (WR&E) was the larger of the two major street railway companies in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, until 1933. At that time, it was merged with its main competitor, the Capital Tract ...

* Washington–Virginia Railway * Washington, Woodside and Forest Glen Railway and Power Company

Notes

References

Federal and Local Legislation Relating to Canals and Steam Railroads in the District of Columbia, 1802-1903
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