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 ...

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U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...

Common freight carriers

* BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary

Illinois Central Railroad The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. A line also c ...

(IC) * CSX Transportation (CSXT) including subsidiary Carrollton Railroad (CARR) **Operates the Glasgow Railway * Fredonia Valley Railroad (FVRR) *

Kentucky and Tennessee Railway Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia t ...

(KT) * KWT Railway (KWT) *

Louisville and Indiana Railroad The Louisville and Indiana Railroad is a Class III railroad that operates freight service between Indianapolis, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, with a major yard and maintenance shop in Jeffersonville, Indiana. It is owned by Anacostia Rail H ...

(LIRC) * Louisville Riverport Railroad (LORJ) * Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNTP) *

Paducah and Illinois Railroad Paducah ( ) is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky. The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missour ...

(PI) *

Paducah and Louisville Railway The Paducah & Louisville Railway is a Class II railroad that operates freight service between Paducah and Louisville, Kentucky. The line is located entirely within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The line was purchased from Illinois Central Gu ...

(PAL) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Bardstown Line (RJCR) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Central Kentucky Lines (RJCC) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Memphis Line (RJCM) * Tennken Railroad (TKEN) *

Transkentucky Transportation Railroad The Transkentucky Transportation Railroad, Inc. is a 50-mile rail transport line purchased from Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1979 with the goal of transporting coal produced in Eastern Kentucky to the Ohio River. It is a Class III railroa ...

(TTIS) * West Tennessee Railroad (WTNN)

Private freight carriers

* Cando Contracting * Centrus Energy * JRL Coal * Respondek Railroad * R.J. Corman Railroad Switchinghttps://www.rjcorman.com/

Passenger carriers

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) - Amtrak has stations at Ashland, South Portsmouth - South Shore, Maysville, and Fulton. There is also an Amtrak bus route connecting Louisville to Indianapolis.

Defunct railroads

Electric

* Blue Grass Traction Company * Camden Interstate Railway * Central Kentucky Traction Company * Georgetown and Lexington Traction Company * Louisville Railway * Louisville, Anchorage and Pewee Valley Electric Railway * Louisville and Eastern Railroad * Louisville and Interurban Railroad * Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Company * Ohio Valley Electric Railway

Notes

References

*Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in Kentucky
' ( PDF). Retrieved May 9, 2005. *