The following

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operate in the

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Current railroads

Common freight carriers

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

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) , informally known as the Missabe Road, was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbor ...

(DMIR), Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway (DWP), Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company (SSAM), and Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC) * Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through subsidiaries

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) and Soo Line Railroad (SOO) *

Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad The Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad is a Class III shortline railroad that operates of track in Northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Its main line runs from Rockland, Michigan, to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and it also own ...

(ELS) * Fox River & Lake Superior Rail System (FOXY) * Progressive Rail, Inc. (PGR) * Tomahawk Railway (TR) *

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) *

Wisconsin and Southern Railroad The Wisconsin and Southern Railroad is a Class II regional railroad in Southern Wisconsin and Northeastern Illinois currently operated by Watco. It operates former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) and Chicago ...

(WSOR) * Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad (WGNS) *

Wisconsin Northern Railroad The Wisconsin Northern Railroad is the trade name employed by Progressive Rail to operate of railroad in northern Wisconsin and began operations on November 29, 2004. Trackage The railroad operates on trackage leased from the Union Pacific Ra ...

(WN)

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) *

East Troy Electric Railroad The East Troy Electric Railroad is an interurban Heritage railway, heritage railroad owned and operated by the East Troy Railroad Museum. Passenger excursions run on a stretch of track from East Troy, Wisconsin, East Troy to Mukwonago, Wiscons ...

(METW) * Kenosha Streetcar (KAT) * Laona and Northern Railway (LNO) *

Metra Metra is the commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 242 stations on 11 rail lines. ...

(METX) *

Mid-Continent Railway Museum The Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a railway museum, railroad museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin, North Freedom, Wisconsin, United States. The museum consists of static displays as well as a round trip ride aboard preserved railroad cars. His ...

(MCRY) * Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway (MNTX) * The Hop * Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad (WGNS)

Industrial/private carriers

* Cando Rail Services (CRSX) * Cenex Harvest States *

Port of Milwaukee The Port of Milwaukee, branded as Port Milwaukee, is a port in the city of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. It primarily serves Southeastern Wisconsin, Southeastern Minnesota, and Northern Illinois. The port owns of rail that connect to two Class I r ...

* Rail & Transload, Inc. * Badger Mining Corporation (BMC) *

US Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...

(USAX) *

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS) is a utility company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The company serves more than 450,000 electric customers and more than 333,000 natural gas customers in 27 counties in eastern, northeastern no ...

(WPSX)

Proposed

* Great Lakes Basin Railroad

Defunct railroads

Private freight carriers

http://sassmaster.tripod.com * A.A. Bigelow Lumber Company * A.H. Stange Lumber Company * Albert Hess Lumber Company * Alexander-Stewart Lumber Company * Arpin Hardwood & Lumber Company * Ashland Lumber Company * Atwood Lumber & Manufacturing Company * B.F. McMillan & Brothers Logging Company * Barker & Stewart Lumber Company * Bird & Wells Lumber Company * Bissell Lumber Company * Blackwell & Webb Lumber Company * Bonifas-Gorman Lumber Company * Boyd-McAlpine Lumber Company * Brooks & Ross Lumber Company * Brown Robbins Lumber Company * Buckstaff & Sprague Lumber Company * Bundy Lumber Company * Buswell Lumber & Manufacturing Company * C.C. Collins Lumber Company * C.J. Kinzel Lumber Company * C.M. Christenson Company * Charlie Fish Lumber Company * Chequamegon Logging Company * Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company * Connor Land & Lumber Company * Copper River Land Company * Cranberry Lumber Company * Crane Logging & Lumber Company * Crocker Chair Company * D.C. Davis & Sons Lumber Company * Daly & Sampson Company * David Tozer Lumber Company * Dells Paper & Pulp Company * Doud Sons & Company * Edward Hines Hardwood & Hemlock Company * Edward Hines Lumber Company * Empire Lumber Company * F.P. Hiles Lumber Company * Fence River Logging Company * Flambeau Lumber Company * Flambeau Paper Company * Flanner-Steger Lumber Company * Forest County Lumber Company * Forseman & Price Lumber Company * Forster-Mueller Lumber Company * Forster-Whitman Lumber Company * Foster-Latimer Lumber Company * Fountain-Campbell Lumber Company * Garth Lumber Company * Geo E. Wood Lumber Company * George W. Pratt Lumber Company * Gilkey & Anson Lumber Company * Girard Lumber Company * Glenwood Manufacturing Company * Glidden Veneer Company * Godfrey Von Platen Lumber Company * Goodman Lumber Company * Goodyear Lumber Company * Great Western Paper Company * Gurney Lumber Company * H.D. Mc Cool Land & Logging Company * H.H. Stolle Lumber Company * H.J. Wachsmuth Lumber Company * H.W. Wright Lumber Company * Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Lumber Company * Haile & Mylrea Lumber Company * Held Lumber Company * Holmes and Sons Logging Railroad * Holt Lumber Company * Hiles Lumber Company * Ingersoll Land & Lumber Company * Ingram Lumber Company * J.J. Kennedy Lumber Company * J.R. Davis Lumber Company * J.W. Wells Lumber Company * Jeffries Lumber Company * John Edwards Manufacturing Company * John Hein Lumber Company * John H. Kaiser Lumber Company * John Schroeder Lumber Company * John S. Owen Lumber Company * Joseph Defer Lumber Company * Joseph Dessert Lumber Company * Jump River Lumber Company * Keith & Hiles Lumber Company * Kimball & Clark Lumber Company * Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Company * Kneeland-West Lumber Company * Lake Superior Lumber Company * Land Log & Lumber Company * Langlade Lumber Company * Langley & Alderson * Luger Lumber Company * Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company * McMillan-Salsich Lumber Company * Medford Lumber Company * Mellen Lumber Company * Menasha Paper Company * Menasha Woodenware Company * Menominee Bay Shore Lumber Company * Menominee Indian Mills * Merrill Lumber Company * Miner Brothers Lumber Company * Mohr Lumber Company * Morse & Tradewell Lumber Company * Mosinee Paper Company * Nash Lumber Company * New Dells Lumber Company * Northwestern Lumber Company * North Wisconsin Lumber & Manufacturing Company * Oconto Company * O'Day & Daley Lumber Company * Page & Landeck Lumber Company * Paine Lumber Company * Park Falls Lumber Company * Peshtigo Lumber Company * Pineville Lumber Company * Puffer-Hubbard Lumber Company * Quinnesec Logging Company * R. Connor Lumber Company * Raymond Lumber Company * Rib Lake Lumber Company * Rice Lake Lumber Company * Robbins Lumber Company * Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company * Rust-Owen Lumber Company * S.G. Cook * S.J. Murphy Lumber Company * Salsich & Wilson Lumber Company * Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company * Scott & Howe Lumber Company * Sever Anderson Logging Company * Shanagolden Lumber Company * Shawano Timber & Land Company * Shores Lumber Company * Simpson Gould & Company * Spider Lake Lumber Company * Sparrow-Kroll Lumber Company * St Croix Timber & Land Company * Stitt & Cartier * Stuart & Sprague Lumber Company * Thunder Lake Lumber Company * Tipler-Grossman Lumber Company * Tomahawk Land Company * Turtle Lake Lumber Company * Underwood Veneer Company *

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* Upham Manufacturing Company * Vilas County Lumber Company * Von Platen-Fox Lumber Company * W.A. Osburn Lumber Company * W.F. Switzer Lumber Company * W.H. Gilbert Company * Wall-Spaulding Lumber Company * Westboro Lumber Company * West Lumber Company * William Bonifas Lumber Company * William Holmes & Sons * William Rogers Lumber Company * Williams Salsich & Company * Wisconsin-Michigan Lumber Company * Wisconsin Timber & Land Company * Yawkey & Lee Lumber Company * Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company

Electric

* Appleton Electric Light and Power Company * Ashland Light, Power and Street Railway Company * Ashland Lighting and Street Railway Company * Bay Shore Street Railway * Belle City Electric Railway * Belle City Street Railway * Beloit Traction Company * Chicago, Harvard and Geneva Lake Railway *

Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (reporting mark CNSM), also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that operated passenger train, passenger and freight train, freight service over an route between the Chicago C ...

Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (reporting mark CNSM), also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service over an route between the Chicago Loop and downtown Milwaukee, as w ...

The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company , also referred to as the Milwaukee Interurban Lines or TMER&L, is a defunct railroad that operated in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the largest electric railway and electric utility sys ...

* Waukesha Beach Electric Railway * Waukesha Electric Railway * Waupaca Electric Light and Railway Company * Wausau Street Railroad * West Side Railroad * Winnebago Traction Company * Wisconsin Railway, Light and Power Company * Wisconsin Electric Railway * Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company * Wisconsin Public Service Company * Wisconsin Rapid Transit Company * Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and Power Company

Not completed

* Bayfield and St. Croix Railway

Notes

References

* Association of American Railroads (2002), . Retrieved January 25, 2005. * * * * * from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation {{Wisconsin

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 ...