The following railroads have been named Union Railroad or Union Railway, usually because they connected or merged several other railroads.

Freight carriers

Union Railroad (Pittsburgh) The Union Railroad is a Class III switching railroad located in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania. The company is owned by Transtar, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors, after being acqu ...

, 1889-present * Union Railroad (Illinois), 1852–1881, an Illinois railroad, predecessor of the Michigan Central Railroad (New York Central system) * Union Railroad of Baltimore (Maryland), 1866–1976, predecessor of the Pennsylvania Railroad * Union Railroad (Massachusetts freight railway), 1848–1854, predecessor of the Boston and Albany Railroad (New York Central system) *

Union Freight Railroad The Union Freight Railroad was a freight railroad, freight-only railroad connecting the railroads coming into the north and south sides of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Almost its entire length was along Atlantic Avenue (Boston), Atlantic Aven ...

, 1872–1970, part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad system in Boston, Massachusetts * Union Railroad (Onondaga County, New York), 1856–1858, a New York railroad, predecessor of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad * Union Railroad (Rockland County, New York), 1851–1946, a New York railroad, predecessor of the Erie Railroad * Union Railroad (Ohio), 1858–1860, an Ohio railroad, predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad * Union Railroad of Oregon, 1927–1993, an Oregon railroad ** Union Railway (Oregon), 1890–1906, an Oregon railroad, predecessor of the above * Union Railway (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 1883–1888, a Tennessee railroad, belt line * Union Railway (Memphis, Tennessee), a Tennessee railroad, belt line

Street railways

Union Railway (Bronx) The Union Railway Company of New York City (often shortened to Union Railway) was chartered in 1892, and consolidated several streetcar transit franchises across Manhattan and The Bronx in New York City in the late 19th century. The Harlem Brid ...

in New York City * Union Railroad (Brooklyn) in New York City * Union Railroad (Massachusetts street railway) in the Boston area; see North Cambridge Carhouse *

Union Railroad (Missouri) The following railroads have been named Union Railroad or Union Railway, usually because they connected or merged several other railroads. Freight carriers *Union Railroad (Pittsburgh), 1889-present * Union Railroad (Illinois), 1852–1881, an I ...

, a streetcar in St. Louis *

Union Railway (Missouri) The following railroads have been named Union Railroad or Union Railway, usually because they connected or merged several other railroads. Freight carriers *Union Railroad (Pittsburgh), 1889-present * Union Railroad (Illinois), 1852–1881, an I ...

in St. Joseph, a Missouri railroad *

Union Railroad (Rhode Island) The following railroads have been named Union Railroad or Union Railway, usually because they connected or merged several other railroads. Freight carriers *Union Railroad (Pittsburgh), 1889-present *Union Railroad (Illinois), 1852–1881, an Lis ...

in Providence, a Rhode Island railroad *

Union Railroad (Washington) The following railroads have been named Union Railroad or Union Railway, usually because they connected or merged several other railroads. Freight carriers *Union Railroad (Pittsburgh), 1889-present * Union Railroad (Illinois), 1852–1881, an I ...

, a streetcar in Washington, D.C.

Other railways

The following railroads had Union Railroad or Union Railway in their names: * Baltimore Coal and Union Railroad, part of the

Delaware and Hudson Railroad The Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H) is a railroad that operates in the Northeastern United States. In 1991, after more than 150 years as an independent railroad, the D&H was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). CP, which would it ...

system * Chattanooga Union Railway, a Tennessee railroad *

Channel Tunnel Rail Link High Speed 1 (HS1), officially the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel. It is part of the line carrying international passenger traffic between the United Kingdom and mainland Euro ...

(High Speed 1), Kent, England * Dayton and Union Railroad, Union City, Indiana, to Dodson, Ohio, an Ohio railroad * Dayton Union Railway, Dayton, Ohio, an Ohio railroad * Delaware River and Union Railroad, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, a

Pennsylvania railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark PRR), legal name as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy," was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its ...

Des Moines Union Railway Des is a masculine given name, mostly a short form (hypocorism) of Desmond. People named Des include: People * Des Buckingham, English football manager * Des Corcoran, (1928–2004), Australian politician * Des Dillon (disambiguation), severa ...

, Des Moines, Iowa, an Iowa railroad * Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Company, Detroit, Michigan, a

Michigan railroad Michigan ( ) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio t ...

* Fort Wayne Union Railway, Fort Wayne, Indiana, an

Indiana railroad The Indiana Railroad (IR) was the last of the typical Midwestern United States interurban lines. It was formed in 1930–31 by combining the operations of the five major interurban systems in central Indiana into one entity. The predecessor comp ...

* Fremont, Lima and Union Railway, Fremont, Ohio to Rushville, Indiana via Union City, Indiana *

Galena and Chicago Union Railroad The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was the first railroad constructed out of Chicago, intended to provide a shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois. The railroad company was chartered on January 16, 183 ...

, Chicago to Clinton, Iowa *

Indianapolis Union Railway The Indianapolis Union Railway Company , is a terminal railroad operating in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was organized on May 31, 1850, as the Union Track Railway Company by the presidents of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad (M&I), the Terre ...

, belt line around Indianapolis, Indiana * Jacques Cartier Union Railway, a railway in Quebec, Canada * Kentucky Union Railway, Lexington to Jackson, Kentucky, a Kentucky railroad * Minneapolis Union Railway, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a Minnesota railroad * Montana Union Railway, Butte to Garrison, Montana * Northwestern Union Railroad, Milwaukee to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; see

Chicago and Milwaukee Railway The Chicago and Milwaukee Railway was a predecessor of the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW) in the U.S. states of Illinois and Wisconsin. The Illinois portion was chartered on February 17, 1851, as the Illinois Parallel Railroad. Its ch ...

* Ogden Union Railway and Depot, Ogden, Utah; see

Union Station A union station, union terminal, joint station, or joint-use station is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway company, railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently bet ...

Peoria and Pekin Union Railway The Peoria and Pekin Union Railway is a switching and terminal railroad in Illinois that began operating in 1881 and they opened a roadhouse in 1882. History The railway managed hourly passenger travel, but ridership declined during the Great ...

, Pekin to Peoria, Illinois * Rock River Valley Union Railroad, state line to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a Wisconsin railroad *

Spartanburg and Union Railroad The Spartanburg and Union Railroad was a gauge shortline railroad that served the South Carolina Upstate region before, during and after the American Civil War. The company secured a charter from the South Carolina General Assembly in 1847 to buil ...

, Alston to Spartanburg, South Carolina * State Line and Union Railroad, Genoa, Illinois to Columbus, Wisconsin, a Wisconsin railroad * Troy Union Railroad and Depot, Troy, New York, a New York Central Railroad precursor * Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway,

reporting mark A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks. The code typically reflects the name or identifying number of the owner, lessee, or operator of the equip ...

: TSU *

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 ...

, the largest railroad in the United States * Union Railroad, Transfer and Stock Yard Company, an

* Union Railway and Transit Company, St. Louis, Missouri, an Illinois railroad * Western Union Railroad, Racine, Wisconsin, a Wisconsin railroad * Wisconsin Union Railroad, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Illinois state line, a Wisconsin railroad

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