What old time lines operated in your state and are now gone?

Gil Finn

Active Member
Other than or ecluding short line and industrail lines what general passenger and freight railroads can you recal? I may of encluded some out of my rail road ingorance.

I know in VA there was the Orange & Alecanda.

WVa had the Pitsburg and WVa, The B&O of course, but that is still with us as CSX.

There was the Kanawha and Michigan, Buffalo Creek & Gauley but that might habe been more industrial and one who also served the puplic. Also a Kanawha and Ohio.

The WM and the Davis, Elkins and Thoms, roots of the WM I think

That is all I can think of.
 

Jac's Lines

Member
Within 25 miles of where I live now, outside of Rochester NY, there were:

Erie
B&O
Pennsy
New York Central
Lehigh Valley

Most of these I think got folded into the mergers. Today there's just CSX (with all sorts of rail maintenance problems) and a shortline that delivers corn syrup and grain to food producers.
I wish I could go back to the heyday of big steam in the 1930s or 40s.
 

eightyeightfan1

Now I'm AMP'd
Here in Connecticut, mostly the New Haven.
But after that, there was the Penn Central, then the Boston and Maine, Conrail, Amtrack and the Providence and Worster.
There's also one of the two only U.S. Army Rail Transportation Companies.
 

railohio

Active Member
Other than or ecluding short line and industrail lines what general passenger and freight railroads can you recal? I may of encluded some out of my rail road ingorance.

What you missed in West Virginia:

The K&M was a subsidiary of the Toledo & Ohio Central which became a part of the New York Central which became a part of Penn Central which became a part of Conrail (The portion in West Virginia is now owned by Pennsylvania Lines LLC, a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern.)

Figuring just larger railroads, you also missed the Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Virginian, Pittsburgh & West Virginia, original Wheeling & Lake Erie (through the WB&T subsidiary) and Pennsylvania, not to mention all their predecessors.

In recent memory there was also Watco's ill-fated Appalachian & Ohio that shut down after less than a year, being turned over to a new operator that's affiliated with Kentucky's Paducah & Louisville.

That's not including all the shortlines you told us to exclude.

~BS
 

Gil Finn

Active Member
I am impressed.

I didnt know the N&W was gone.

I never think of the C&O as being gone, it runs behind my house all the time no matter what color the engines are or the name says.
 

Squidbait

Recovering ALCO-holic
Here in Ontario we used to have (in my lifetime), the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo (sucked into Canadian Pacific), the New York Central (sucked into Penn Central and then Conrail), Pere Marquette (sucked into the Chesapeake and Ohio, then sucked into CSX), the Wabash (sucked into the N&W, sucked into NS), Canadian National (now neither Canadian, nor National... now it's CN North America :p).
 

CRed

Member
Hmm lets see...

DM&IR
Lake Superior & Mississippi
C&NW
Rock Island
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
CB&Q
Soo
St Louis & MPLS
Duluth,Winnipeg & Pacific
Milwaukee Road
Wisconsin Central
BN

That's all I can think of off the top of my head,there may be more.

Chris
 

bigsteel

Call me Mr.Tinkertrain
these are some OLD RR's in cincinnati.
  1. the cleveland,columbus,and cincinnati RR
  2. marietta&cincinnati RR
those are the old truly old time RR's i know.besides the C&O,B&O,etc...all i know is there were alot running through union station in the 40's and 50's.--josh
 

toptrain1

Well-Known Member
Hudson County, New Jersey

Here In Bayonne NJ gone are the Jersey Central, Reading, B&O.Just north in Jersey City,and North Bergen gone are these three plus the Lehigh Valley, Ontario And Western, Erie, Pennsylvania, and The New York Central. Over in Newark you can add The Lackawanna and the Delaware and Western.
 

MasonJar

It's not rocket surgery
Within my lifetime, in southern Ontario, the major Canadian roads are/were:

Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo (TH&B)
VIA Rail (passenger traffic of CN and CP)

Of these, CNR, CPR, and VIA remain.

But the shortlines are coming back, sometimes where shortlins originally existed before being absorbed into one of the big two...

My hometown example is both the Credit Valley Railway and the Toronto Grey & Bruce ran into Orangeville before (through a series of complicated take-overs) being absorbed into the CPR. CPR then abandoned this line approximately 100 years later, only to see it resurrected as the Orangeville-Brampton Railway (OBRY).

Andrew
 

joesho

Member
well, can only think of two for vancouver thats the bcr (british columbia electric) which ran all through out the lowermain land ended in 1952.then theres via rail and cn,although some times for some reason i see UP BN SF BN
 

Triplex

Active Member
The old Great Northern ran a little ways into southern BC, so that's probably why you're seeing BNSF around.

In Alberta, the main fallen flag I can think of is the Northern Alberta Railway, and that's not actually nearby.
 

sacval2

New Member
Here in Northern California;
Sacramento Valley RR (First in the West)
Central Pacific RR
California Central RR
California Pacific RR
Diamond & Caldor RR
Sacramento, Auburn and Nevada RR
Western Pacific RR (1865)
and Southern Pacific RR just to named a few.
 
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