The following

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s operate in the U.S. state of

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...

Common freight carriers

* Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad (BNG) * Blue Rapids Railway (BRRY) * Boot Hill and Western Railway (BHWY) * BNSF Railway (BNSF) *

Cimarron Valley Railroad The Cimarron Valley Railroad was built c. 1912 and purchased from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad in February 1996. It runs over former C.V. and Manter Subdivisions of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad tracks in Oklahoma, Colorado ...

(CVR) * Colorado Pacific Railroad (CPRR) * Garden City Western Railway (GCW) *

Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...

(KCS) * Kansas City Terminal Railway (KCT) * Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (KO) * Kaw River Railroad (KAW) * Kyle Railroad (KYLE) * Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA) *

South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is a short line railroad which operates of rail lines in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri that used to belong to Missouri Pacific, Frisco and Santa Fe lines. SKOL is a unit of Watco. The present railroad was create ...

(SKOL) **Operates the Kansas Eastern Railroad (KE) *

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) **Operates the Blue Rapids Railway and

Wichita Terminal Association The Wichita Terminal Association is a switching and terminal railroad in northern Wichita, Kansas, jointly owned by the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad. It handles mainly grain and some scrap steel, serving customers at the former Wichit ...

* V&S Railway (VSR) * Wichita Union Terminal Railway (WUT)

Passenger carriers

Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad is a heritage railway located in Abilene, Kansas, United States. It is a non-profit organization that offers public excursion train rides May through October. The depot is located in the Historic 1887 Rock ...

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) *

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It ama ...

* Baldwin City & Southern Railroad (LLG)

Private

New Century AirCenter Railroad New Century AirCenter Railroad (JCAX) provides rail switching services within the New Century AirCenter business park in Johnson County, Kansas. Clients include Altiras Chemical LLC, CFS Sauer Foods Inc., IFF Nutrition and Health, deElliotte Co ...

Defunct railroads

During

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, less popular routes were reclaimed by the

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for the metal rails, because of a shortage of materials during those years. ;Electric *

Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway The Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway (AVI) was an interurban railway that operated in Kansas USA from 1910 to 1938 for passengers and to 1942 for freight, running between Wichita, Newton, and Hutchinson. It operated a small fleet of electrical ...

* Hutchinson and Northern Railway (HN) * Joplin–Pittsburg Railway * Kansas City, Kaw Valley Railroad *

Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway The Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway Railway Equipment and Publication Company, The Official Railway Equipment Register', June 1917, p. 843 was an interurban electric railway that ran between the American cities of Lawrence, Kansas, and K ...

(KV&W, KVW) * Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka Railway * Kansas City-Leavenworth Railway * Kansas City, Leavenworth and Western Railway * Kansas City and Olathe Electric Railway * Kansas City Public Service Company * Kansas and Missouri Railway and Terminal Company * Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway * Northeast Oklahoma Railroad (NEO) * Southwest Missouri Railroad Company * Union Electric Railway ;Not completed * Nebraska, Kansas and Southern Railway

Notes

References

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Kansas DOT railroad map
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Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners Annual Reports 1883-
KGI Online Library, State Library of Kansas {{Kansas

Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...