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List Of Pennsylvania Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Common freight carriers * Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad (AOR) Genesee & Wyoming * Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR) * Allentown and Auburn Railroad (ALLN) * BD Highspire Holdings (BDHH) *Belvidere and Delaware River Railway (BDRV) *Brandywine Valley Railroad (BVRY) *Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) (Genesee & Wyoming) *Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE) *Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) through subsidiary Delaware and Hudson Railway (DH) * Central New York Railroad (CNYK) * Chestnut Ridge Railroad (CHR) * Columbia and Reading Railway (CORY) *Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CRR) **operates Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad (PBL) *CSX (CSX) * Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad (DL) * East Erie Commercial Railroad (EEC) *East Penn Railroad (ESPN) (Regional Rail, LLC) *Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad (EZR) *Everett Railroad (EV) *Gettysburg and Northern Railroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and rail freight transport, freight transport globally, thanks to its Energy efficiency in transport, energy efficiency and potentially high-speed rail, high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower friction, frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by Diesel locomotive, diesel or Electric locomotive, electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital intensity, capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrail Shared Assets Operations
Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. When most of the former Conrail's track was split between these two railroads, the three shared assets areas (a total of about 1,200 miles of track) were kept separate to avoid giving one railroad an advantage in those areas. The company operates using its own employees and infrastructure but owns no equipment outside MOW equipment. North Jersey Shared Assets Area The North Jersey Shared Assets Area stretches from the North Bergen Yard in North Bergen, New Jersey south into Jersey City and Newark, and beyond to Manville ( Port Reading Junction) and Trenton, much of which is operated over Amtrak's N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiski Junction Railroad
The Kiski Junction Railroad was a short-line railroad that operated in Western Pennsylvania near the city of Pittsburgh. The railroad was based in the small community of Schenley which is situated at the point where the Kiskiminetas River flows into the Allegheny River. The KJR functioned as both a freight hauler and a tourist railroad. The railroad suspended all rail operations after the 2016 season and was officially closed and abandoned in 2021. History The name for the railroad was taken from a point on the Pennsylvania Railroad where the PRR's Conemaugh Line (the former Western Pennsylvania Railroad) and Allegheny Branch (former Allegheny Valley Railroad) met. This point was at the south end of the Kiski Junction Railroad's bridge, where the KJR would interchange with Norfolk Southern. The section of the Kiski Junction Railroad's line that ran from the former Kiski Junction, across the bridge over the mouth of the Kiskiminetas River, and along the Allegheny River, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Shore Railroad (Pennsylvania)
The North Shore Railroad is a short line railroad that operates of track in Snyder, Northumberland, Montour, Columbia, and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. The line runs generally northeast between Northumberland (in Northumberland County) and the unincorporated village of Beach Haven in Salem Township (in Luzerne County). Other communities served include Selinsgrove, Kreamer (both in Snyder County), Danville (in Montour County), Bloomsburg, and Berwick (both in Columbia County). The rail line runs generally northeast along the north shore of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, roughly following U.S. Route 11. There are of SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority track in Northumberland County, in Montour County, and 15 in Columbia County. Beach Haven is just east of Berwick and the Columbia County - Luzerne County line. The Selinsgrove Branch runs generally west across the Susquehanna River for to Kreamer, where the rail line terminates. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniata Valley Railroad
The Juniata Valley Railroad is a short line that operates 11 miles of track in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is part of the North Shore Railroad System. The communities served include Lewistown (and the MCIDC industrial park), the unincorporated village of Maitland in Derry Township, and Burnham. All the track meets at Lewistown, with lines to the industrial park to the southwest, Maitland to the northeast (roughly parallel to U.S. Route 522), and Burnham to the northwest (roughly parallel to U.S. Route 322). The system has trackage rights Railway companies can interact with and control others in many ways. These relationships can be complicated by bankruptcies. Operating Often, when a railroad first opens, it is only a short spur of a main line. The owner of the spur line may c ... via the Norfolk Southern Railway, interchanging with the Pittsburgh Line at Lewistown. History The line operated by the Juniata Valley Railroad was a Penn Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gettysburg And Northern Railroad
The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad is a short-line railroad located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The railroad operates a long line running between Gettysburg in Adams County and Mount Holly Springs in Cumberland County. Operations The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad operates a long line running from Gettysburg in Adams County north to Mount Holly Springs in Cumberland County. Between Gettysburg and Mount Holly Springs, the railroad serves Biglerville, Aspers, Gardners, Peach Glen, Hunters Run, and Upper Mill. The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad interchanges with CSX Transportation in Gettysburg and the Norfolk Southern Railway in Mount Holly Springs. Among the products carried by the railroad are canned goods, pulpboard, soda ash, grain, and scrap paper History The railroad was built in the late 19th century and opened in 1891 as the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway. The line was later leased to the Reading Railroad and operated as the "Gettysburg Branc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everett Railroad
The Everett Railroad is a shortline railroad, shortline and Heritage railway, heritage railroad that operates on ex-Pennsylvania Railroad trackage in the Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Hollidaysburg area of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It runs freight trains over two separate lines, one from Brooks Mill, Pennsylvania, Brooks Mill and Sproul, Pennsylvania, Sproul, and the other, owned by the Morrison's Cove Railroad, from Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, Roaring Spring to Curryville, Pennsylvania, Curryville and Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, Martinsburg. The affiliated Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad , which the Everett Railroad operates both under contract and via trackage rights, connects the two segments to each other and to the Norfolk Southern Railway (ex-Conrail) in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Hollidaysburg. The Everett Railroad name refers to its former location near Everett, Pennsylvania, Everett, abandoned in 1982. History The Everett Railroad was incorporated in Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad
The Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad is a switching and terminal railroad operating since 2015 on about 1 mile of track in the vicinity of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, United States. The railroad owns two EMD SW1200 locomotives of which one is active. Number 19 is leased by Evraz EVRAZ plc () is a UK-incorporated multinational steel manufacturing and mining company part-owned by Russian oligarchs. It has operations mainly in Russia as well as the USA, Canada, and Kazakhstan. Its listing on the London Stock Exchange (LS ... company. Number 33 is leased by Trinity Industries. Operations The Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad began with a yellow GE 45-ton centercab locomotive bearing no markings. The locomotive had briefly been in New Freedom, PA, on the western end of the Stewartstown Railroad before being moved to the industrial park a short distance west of the borough of Elizabethtown. It was sold to Erie Coke in Erie, PA, and shipped to its new owner via flatbed truck. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Rail, LLC
Regional Rail, LLC is a company operating short-line railroads in Delaware, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. It operates 13 railroads: Burns Harbor Railroad, Carolina Coastal Railway, East Penn Railroad, Effingham Railroad, Florida Central Railroad, Florida Midland Railroad, Florida Northern Railroad, Great Sandhills Railway, Illinois Western Railroad, Middletown and New Jersey Railroad, Port Manatee Railroad, South Point and Ohio Railroad, Cincinnati Eastern Railroad (Ohio) and Tyburn Railroad as well as the Conshohocken Recycling & Rail Transfer. It is based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Operations Regional Rail, LLC owns three railroads in the Mid-Atlantic states of the United States. The East Penn Railroad operates on of trackage in Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania. The Middletown and New Jersey Railroad operates of railroad lines near Middletown in New York. The Tyburn Railroad serves a transload facility in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Penn Railroad
The East Penn Railroad is a short-line railroad that operates a number of mostly-unconnected lines in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Except for two industrial park switching railroad, switching operations, all are former Pennsylvania Railroad or Reading Company lines, abandoned or sold by Conrail or its predecessors. The East Penn Railroad was formed in 2007 through a merger of East Penn Railways and Penn Eastern Rail Lines , each of which began operating in the 1990s. The railroad is owned by Regional Rail, LLC, which also owns the Middletown and New Jersey Railroad, Tyburn Railroad, Carolina Coastal Railway, Florida Central Railroad (current), Florida Central Railroad, Florida Northern Railroad (current), Florida Northern Railroad, and Florida Midland Railroad (current), Florida Midland Railroad. History In 2007, the East Penn Railroad (ESPN) was formed by the merger of East Penn Railway and Penn Eastern Rail Lines. Since the merger, the railroad has improved service and infrast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
