The following

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

s operate in the U.S. state of

Iowa Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...

Common freight carriers

Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad is a heritage railroad that operates freight and passenger excursions in Boone County, Iowa. History The heritage and excursion railroad was begun in 1983 by a group of volunteers who wanted to preserve a sc ...

(BSVY) *

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

(BNSF) * Burlington Junction Railway (BJRY) *

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...

(CN) through subsidiaries

Illinois Central Railroad The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, ...

(IC) Cedar River Railroad (CEDR) and

Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad The Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad is part of the Illinois Central Railroad (IC), which is owned by the Canadian National Railway (CN) through the Grand Trunk Corporation. Operationally, the Chicago Central & Pacific is designated as the Io ...

(CC) *

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, Trade name, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company. Through its primary operating railroad subsidiaries, Canadian Pacific Railw ...

(CPKC) through subsidiary

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

(DME) *

Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway , also known as the CRANDIC, is a Class III railroad operating in the US state of Iowa. The CRANDIC currently operates of main line and more than of yard trackage in four east central Iowa counties. The ...

(CIC) * D&I Railroad (DAIR) *

Iowa Interstate Railroad The Iowa Interstate Railroad is a Class II railroad, Class II regional railroad operating in the central United States. The railroad is owned by Railroad Development Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. History The railroad was formed on N ...

(IAIS) * Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) **Operates the D&W Railroad * Iowa Northwestern Railroad (IANW) * Iowa River Railroad (IARR) * Iowa Southern Railway (ISRY) * Iowa Traction Railroad (IATR) *

Keokuk Junction Railway The Keokuk Junction Railway Co. , is a Class III railroad in the U.S. states of Illinois and Iowa. It was formerly a subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp, but now operates as a subsidiary of Patriot Rail Company. History The present company was inco ...

(KJRY) *

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

(NS) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

(UP)

Private freight carriers

* CBEC Railway * East Camden and Highland Railroad * Greater Davenport Redevelopment Corporation

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

(AMTK) * Fourth Street Elevator

Defunct railroads

;Electric * Albia Interurban Railway * Albia Light and Railway Company * Burlington Electric Railway * Burlington Railway and Light Company * Cedar Falls and Normal Railway * Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway and Light Company * Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway * Centerville Light and Traction Company * Charles City Western Railway * Citizens' Railway and Light Company * Clinton, Davenport and Muscatine Railway * Clinton Street Railway * Clinton and Lyons Horse Railway * Colfax Springs Railway * Davenport and Muscatine Railway * Des Moines City Railway * Des Moines Street Railroad * Des Moines Suburban Railway * Dubuque Street Railway * Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad * Fort Dodge Street Railway * Fort Madison Street Railway * Inter-Urban Railway (ITU) * Iowa Railway and Light Company * Iowa City Electric Company * Iowa and Illinois Railway * Iowa Southern Utilities Company * Keokuk Electric Company * Keokuk Electric Railway and Power Company * Lake Manawa and Manhattan Beach Railway * Marshalltown Light, Power and Railway Company * Mason City and Clear Lake Railroad * Mississippi Valley Electric Company * Newton and Northwestern Railroad * Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company * Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway * Omaha, Council Bluffs and Suburban Railway * Oskaloosa and Buxton Electric Railway * Oskaloosa Traction and Light Company * Ottumwa Railway and Light Company * Ottumwa Traction and Light Company * Sioux City, Crystal Lake and Homer Electric Railway * Sioux City, Homer and Southern Railway * Sioux City Service Company * Sioux City Traction Company * Tama and Toledo Railroad * Tama and Toledo Railway * Tri-City Railway * Tri-City Railway and Light Company *

Union Electric Company The Union Electric Company of Missouri (formerly ) was an electric power utility that was organized in 1902 and grew to be one of the large U.S. companies listed among the S&P 500. In 1997, its holding company merged with a smaller neighboring uti ...

* Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad * Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway * Waterloo and Cedar Falls Rapid Transit Company * Waterloo Street Railway

Notes

References

*
Iowa DOT railroad map legend
*Iowa Department of Transportation, Office of Rail Transportation (May 1999),
Railroad Profiles
'. Retrieved March 10, 2005. {{Iowa

Iowa railroads The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Iowa. Common freight carriers *Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad (BSVY) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Burlington Junction Railway (BJRY) *Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiaries Illinois Cen ...

Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road ...