The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Indiana.

Common freight carriers

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

(CN) through 3 subsidiaries: ** Wisconsin Central (WC) ** Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway - now part of Wisconsin Central(EJE) ** Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW) ** Illinois Central Railroad (IC) *

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...

(CP) through 1 subsidiary: **

Soo Line Railroad The Soo Line Railroad is the primary United States railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway , one of seven U.S. Class I railroads, controlled through the Soo Line Corporation. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sa ...

(SOO) * Central Indiana and Western Railroad (CEIW) * Central Railroad of Indiana (CIND) *

Central Railroad of Indianapolis Central Railroad of Indianapolis is a Class III short-line railroad that operates approximately miles of rail line in north central Indiana. One leg of the railroad begins near Marion at the unincorporated town of Michaelsville, passes west ...

(CERA) * Chesapeake and Indiana Railroad (CKIN) * Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE) * Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (CSS) * C&NC Railroad (CNUR) * CSX Corporation (CSX) through 2 subsidiaries: **

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...

(CSXT) ** Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (BOCT) *

Dubois County Railroad The Dubois County Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad serving Dubois County in southern Indiana, United States, and is a for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Railway Museum, now better known as thFrench Lick Scenic Railway The railroad ...

(DCRR) *

Elkhart and Western Railroad The Elkhart & Western Railroad Co. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp , is a Class III short-line railroad operating three unconnected lines in northern Indiana. The first, the Elkhart Branch, is in and around the city of Elkhart ...

(EWR) * Elkhart and Western Railway (EWRY) **Operates the Fulton County Railroad (FC) * Evansville Western Railway (EVWR) * Gary Railway (GRW) * Grand Elk Railroad (GDLK) * Honey Creek Railroad (HCRR) * Hoosier Southern Railroad (HOS) * Indian Creek Railroad (ICRK) * Indiana Rail Road (INRD) * Indiana Eastern Railroad (IERR) * Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad (IHB) *

Indiana Northeastern Railroad The Indiana Northeastern Railroad is a Class III short line freight railroad operating on nearly in southern lower Michigan, northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. The Indiana Northeastern Railroad Company began operations in December 1992 and ...

(IN) * Indiana and Ohio Railway (IORY) * Indiana Southern Railroad (ISRR) *

Indiana Southwestern Railway Indiana Southwestern Railway is a subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp, operator of several short-line railroad companies. The ISW is a Class III railroad, and operated on 17 miles of track from Evansville, Indiana, northward to Cynthiana, Indiana. Th ...

(ISW) *

Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad The Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad Company is a Class III railroad serving agricultural communities in east-central Illinois and west-central Indiana. History In December 1977, Conrail was set to abandon of their ex-New York Cent ...

(KBSR) **Also operates the Bee Line Railroad (BLEX) *

Kendallville Terminal Railway The Kendallville Terminal Railway (reporting marks KTR) is a Class III common carrier owned by Pioneer Railcorp, in Northern Indiana. The line runs for 1.1 miles in Kendallville, Indiana and also connects with Norfolk Southern Railway The N ...

(KTR) * Lake Michigan and Indiana Railroad (LMIC) * Landisville Terminal & Transfer Company (LVTT) *

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 Ho ...

(LIRC) *

Lucas Oil Rail Line Lucas Oil Rail Line is a short line railway that operates in Harrison County, Indiana between Corydon Junction and Corydon, a distance of 7.7 miles (12.39 km). History On May 25, 2006, the former Louisville, New Albany & Corydon Railr ...

(LORL) *City of

Madison Madison may refer to: People * Madison (name), a given name and a surname * James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States Place names * Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...

Port Authority: **Operates the

Madison Railroad The Madison Railroad , a division of the City of Madison Port Authority, is a short-line railroad in southeastern Indiana. The Madison Railroad begins along the Ohio River in the western part of the city of Madison and from there runs generally ...

(CMPA) * MG Rail (MGRI) * Norfolk Southern Corporation through 1 subsidiary: **

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the company operates 19,420 route miles (31 ...

(NS) * Ohio Valley Railroad (OVR) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Western Ohio Lines (RJCW) * R.J. Corman Railroad/St Mary's Lines (RJSM) *

South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway The South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway , owned by Mittal Steel Company (originally the International Steel Group), is the former Chicago Short Line Railway which operates of track between Chicago, Illinois and East Chicago, Indiana.

(SCIH) *

Southern Indiana Railway Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, M ...

(SIND) * Southwind Shortline Railway (SWRX) *

Squaw Creek Southern Railroad The Squaw Creek Southern Railroad (reporting mark SCS) is a Class III railroad subsidiary of Respondek Railroad operating in the southern portion of the State of Indiana. Originally, the Squaw Creek Southern started operating 21 miles of former Y ...

(SCS) * Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway (TPW) * U S Rail Corporation (USRP): **Operates the

Kokomo Grain Company Kokomo may refer to: Animals * Kokomo (gorilla), a western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo * Kokomo Jr., a name given to two performing chimpanzees in the 1950s and 1960s Music Songs * "Kokomo Blues", by Scrapper Blackwell (1928) * " ...

**Operates the

Winamac Southern Railway The Winamac Southern Railway is a short-line railroad in northern Indiana, United States, operated under lease by the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway. It owns two lines radiating from Logansport to Kokomo and Bringhurst, and formerly a thi ...

(WSRY) *

Vermilion Valley Railroad The Vermilion Valley Railroad is a short-line railroad that operates across the Indiana-Illinois state line, connecting the Flex-N-Gate Corporation facility west of Covington, Indiana with CSX Transportation in Danville, Illinois. Operations by ...

(VVRR) *

Wabash Central Railroad The Wabash Central Railroad is a short-line railroad that operates between Van Buren and Craigville, United States, crossing a Norfolk Southern Railway line in Bluffton. It is owned by RMW Ventures, LLC and began operations in 1997, replacing t ...

(WBCR)

Private freight carriers

* BP *

City of Auburn Port Authority Auburn is a city in DeKalb County, Indiana, United States. The population was 13,820 at the 2020 census. Founded in 1836 by Wesley Park (1811–1868), the city is the county seat of DeKalb County. Auburn is also known as Home of the Classics. Hi ...

Steel Dynamics Steel Dynamics, Inc., sometimes abbreviated as "SDI", is an American steel producer based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. With a production capacity of 13 million tons of steel, the company is the third largest producer of carbon steel products in the ...

* Yankeetown Docks Corporation (YDCX)

Passenger carriers

* Amtrak (AMTK) * Carthage, Knightstown and Shirley Railroad (CKSI) *

Indiana Railway Museum The Indiana Railway Museum is a railway museum, railroad museum located in French Lick, Indiana, United States, dedicated to preserving and displaying artifacts related to the history of railroads in Indiana. History The Indiana Railway Museum ...

* Indiana Transportation Museum (ITM, ITMZ) **Operates the

Hoosier Heritage Port Authority The Hoosier Heritage Port Authority is a quasi-governmental organization in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the owner of a Heritage railway , operated by the Indiana Transportation Museum, over former Norfolk Southern trackage from Tipton, Indian ...

(HHPA) *

Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District The South Shore Line is an electrically powered interurban commuter rail line operated by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) between Millennium Station in downtown Chicago and the South Bend International Airport in ...

: **Operates the South Shore Line *

Whitewater Valley Railroad The Whitewater Valley Railroad is a heritage railway, heritage railroad in southeastern Indiana between Connersville, Indiana, Connersville and Metamora, Indiana, Metamora. The railroad is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of a 1950s ...

Defunct railroads

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Notes

References

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Indiana Department of Transportation: 2008 Indiana Railroad MapAssociation of American Railroads: Railroads in Indiana
*Richard S. Simons and Francis Haywood Parker, Railroads of Indiana,

Indiana University Press Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. IU Press publishes 140 ...

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External links

Indiana Railroads collection
Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library {{Indiana Indiana Railroads