Missouri_Pacific_Train_Number_1123_(MSA)

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 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 ...

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

Common freight carriers

Arkansas and Missouri Railroad The Arkansas and Missouri Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas. The A&M, as it is known, operates of line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Monett, Missouri. The railroad interchanges freight cars wit ...

(AM) * Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) * Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad (BGKX) * BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Burlington Junction Railway (BJRY) * Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through subsidiary

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Before its purchase, it was the largest Class II railroad in the United States, operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in ...

(DME) * Central Midland Railway (CMR) operates Missouri Central Railroad (MOC) * Columbia Terminal Railroad (CT) * FTRL Railway (FTRL) *

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) * Kaw River Railroad (KAW) * Missouri North Central Railroad (MNC) * Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA) * Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) *

Ozark Valley Railroad The Ozark Valley Railroad is a 27-mile shortline railroad connecting Mexico, Missouri, and Fulton, Missouri. Connection The Kansas City Southern Railway links to the Ozark Valley Railroad at Mexico, Missouri. Motive Power * EMD GP7 The E ...

(OVRR) * Pemiscot County Port Railroad (PCPA) * SEMO Port Railroad (SE) *

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) * Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) *

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) including subsidiary Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company * West Belt Railroad (WBRW)

Private freight carriers

* TransitAmerica Services

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) * Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad * Branson Scenic Railway * St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway ;Electric railways and predecessors * Cape Girardeau – Jackson Interurban Railway * East St. Louis and Suburban Railway *

Illinois Terminal Company The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company (reporting marks "ITC"), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from ...

Illinois Terminal Railroad The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company (reporting marks "ITC"), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from ...

(ITC) * Interurban South Side Railway * Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway * Kansas City Interurban 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 Public Service Company * Kansas City and Westport Belt Railway (KCWB) * Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway * St. Francois County Electric Railroad * St. Francois County Railroad * St. Francois County Railway * St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway * St. Louis and Florissant Railroad * St. Louis and Suburban Railway * Southwest Missouri Railroad Company * Union Railway (Missouri) (St. Louis) * Union Railroad (Missouri) (St. Joseph) * West End Narrow Gauge Railroad ;Heritage railways * Kansas City Railroad Museum

Notes

References

*Association of American Railroads (2003), . Retrieved May 11, 2005. *

External links

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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 ...