This is a list of current shortline railroads (FRA Class III) in the United States. The reporting mark assigned by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) is listed for each entry.
Alabama edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Alabama & Tennessee River Railway | ATN |
Alabama Southern Railroad | ABS |
Alabama Warrior Railway | ABWR |
Autauga Northern Railroad | AUT |
Birmingham Terminal Railway | BHRR |
CG Railway | CGR |
Chattahoochee & Gulf Railroad | CHAT |
Conecuh Valley Railroad | COEH |
Wiregrass Central Railroad | WGCR |
Arizona edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Apache Railway | APA |
Arizona & California Railroad | ARZC |
Arizona Central Railroad | AZCR |
Arizona Eastern Railway | AZER |
Copper Basin Railway | CBRY |
San Pedro Valley Railroad | SPSR |
Arkansas edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Arkansas & Missouri Railroad | AM |
Arkansas Southern Railroad | ARS |
Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad | DR |
Fort Smith Railroad | FSR |
California edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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California Northern Railroad | CFNR |
Carrizo Gorge Railway | CZRY |
Central California Traction | CCT |
McCloud Railway | MCR |
Modesto & Empire Traction Company | MET |
Mountain Pacific Railroad | MPR |
Northwestern Pacific Railroad | NWP |
Pacific Harbor Line | PHL |
Pacific Sun Railroad | PSRR |
Richmond Pacific Railroad | RPRC |
San Diego & Imperial Valley Railroad | SDIY |
San Francisco Bay Railroad | SFBR |
San Joaquin Valley Railroad | SJVR |
Santa Maria Valley Railroad | SMV |
Sierra Northern Railway | SERA |
Trona Railway | TRC |
Colorado edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Denver Rock Island Railroad | DRIR |
Great Western Railroad of Colorado | GWR |
Rock & Rail | RRRR |
San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad | SLRG |
Connecticut edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Branford Steam Railroad | BRFD |
Housatonic Railroad | HRRC |
Central New England Railroad | CNZR |
Connecticut Southern Railroad | CSOR |
Delaware edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Delmarva Central Railroad | DCR |
East Penn Railroad | ESPN |
Maryland & Delaware Railroad | MDDE |
Wilmington & Western Railroad | WWRC |
Florida edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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AN Railway | AN |
Bay Line Railroad | BAYL |
NASA Railroad | NLAX |
Seminole Gulf Railway | SGLR |
South Central Florida Express | SCFE |
Georgia edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad | CIRR |
Georgia Central Railway | GC |
Georgia Northeastern Railroad | GNRR |
Georgia Southwestern Railroad | GSWR |
Sandersville Railroad | SAN |
St. Mary's Railroad | SM |
Valdosta Railway | VR |
Idaho edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Boise Valley Railroad | BVRR |
St. Maries River Railroad | STMA |
Illinois edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Bloomer Line | BLOL |
Central Illinois Railroad | CIRY |
Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railway | COER |
Decatur Junction Railway | DT |
Eastern Illinois Railroad | EIRC |
Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal Railroad | FFGC |
Foster Townsend Rail Logistics | FTRL |
Illinois Railway | IR |
Keokuk Junction Railway | KJRY |
Peoria & Western Railway | PWRY |
Tazewell & Peoria Railroad | TZPR |
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway | TPW |
Indiana edit
Iowa edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Burlington Junction Railway | BJRY |
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway | CIC |
Iowa Northern Railway | IANR |
Iowa Traction Railway | IATR |
Kansas edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad | KO |
Kansas City Terminal Railway | KCT |
Kaw River Railroad | KAW |
Kyle Railroad | KYLE |
South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad | SKOL |
Louisiana edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Baton Rouge Southern Railroad | BRS |
Louisiana Southern Railroad | LAS |
New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway | NOGC |
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad | NOPB |
Maine edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Eastern Maine Railway (1995) | EMRY |
Maine Northern Railway | MNRY |
St Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad | SLR |
Maryland edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Delmarva Central Railroad | DCR |
Maryland & Delaware Railroad | MDDE |
Maryland Midland Railway | MMID |
Tradepoint Rail | TPR |
Massachusetts edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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East Brookfield & Spencer Railroad | EBSR |
Grafton & Upton Railroad | GU |
Massachusetts Central Railroad | MCER |
Pioneer Valley Railroad | PVRR |
Michigan edit
Minnesota edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Progressive Rail | PGR |
Twin Cities & Western Railroad | TCW |
Red River Valley & Western Railroad | RRVW |
Mississippi edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Meridian Southern Railway | MDS |
Mississippian Railway | MSRW |
Mississippi Delta Railroad | MDR |
Mississippi Export Railroad | MSE |
Mississippi Southern Railroad | MSR |
Vicksburg Southern Railroad | VSOR |
Missouri edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Arkansas and Missouri Railroad | AM |
Columbia Terminal Railroad | CT |
Kansas City Terminal Railway | KCT |
Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis | TRRA |
Nebraska edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Brandon Corporation | BRAN |
Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad | FEVR |
Kyle Railroad | KYLE |
Nebraska Central Railroad | NCRC |
Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado RailNet | NKC |
Nebraska Northeastern Railway | NENE |
Nebraska Northwestern Railroad | NNW |
Omaha, Lincoln and Beatrice Railway | OLB |
Sidney and Lowe Railroad | SLGG |
New Hampshire edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Milford-Bennington Railroad | MBRX |
New Hampshire Central Railroad | NHCR |
New Jersey edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Belvidere and Delaware River Railway | BDRV |
Black River & Western Railroad | BRW |
Cape May Seashore Lines | CMSL |
Dover and Delaware River Railroad | DD |
Dover & Rockaway River Railroad | DRRV |
Morristown & Erie Railway | ME |
SMS Rail Lines | SLRS |
Southern Railroad of New Jersey | SRNJ |
Winchester & Western Railroad | WW |
New Mexico edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Arizona Eastern Railway | AZER |
Santa Fe Southern Railway | SFS |
Southwestern Railroad | SW |
Texas-New Mexico Railroad | TNMR |
New York edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Arcade & Attica Railroad | ARA |
B&H Rail Corporation | BH |
Batten Kill Railroad | BKRR |
Buffalo Southern Railroad | BSRR |
Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad | DLWR |
Falls Road Railroad | FRR |
Finger Lakes Railway | FGLK |
Ithaca Central Railroad | ITHR |
Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad | LAL |
New York & Atlantic Railway | NYA |
Ontario Central Railroad | ONCT |
Ontario Midland Railroad | OMID |
Rochester & Southern Railroad | RSR |
Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad | WNYP |
North Carolina edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad | AR |
Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway | ACWR |
Alexander Railroad | ARC |
Atlantic & Western Railway | ATW |
Caldwell County Railroad | CWCY |
Carolina Central Railway | |
Carolina Coastal Railway | CLNA |
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad | GSMR |
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway | WSS |
Yadkin Valley Railroad | YVRR |
North Dakota edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Red River Valley & Western Railroad | RRVW |
Ohio edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Ashland Railway | ASRY |
Camp Chase Railway | CAMY |
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad | CVSR |
Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railroad | ND&W |
Ohio Central Railroad | OHCR |
Ohio Terminal Railway | OHIO |
Ohio Valley Railroad | OVR, OVRX |
Toledo Lake Erie & Western | TLEW |
Cincinnati East Terminal Railway | CET |
Oklahoma edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Arkansas Southern Railroad | ARS |
Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad | BNG |
Farmrail | FMRC |
Kiamichi Railroad | KRR |
Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad | NOKR |
Sand Springs Railway | SS |
Stillwater Central Railroad | SLWC |
Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad | TOE |
Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway | WTJR |
Oregon edit
Pennsylvania edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Allegheny Valley Railroad | AVR |
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad | BLE |
Colebrookdale Railroad | CRR |
Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad | DL |
East Penn Railroad | ESPN |
Everett Railroad | EV |
Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad | MIDH |
New Hope Railroad | NHRR |
Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad | NBER |
Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad | PN |
Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad | POHC |
Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad | RBMN |
Shamokin Valley Railroad | SVRR |
Strasburg Rail Road | SRC |
Tyburn Railroad | TYBR |
Rhode Island edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Seaview Transportation Company | SVTX |
South Carolina edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Carolina Piedmont Railroad | CPDR |
Carolina Southern Railroad | CALA |
Greenville & Western Railway | GRLW |
Hampton and Branchville Railroad | HB |
Lancaster and Chester Railroad | LC |
Pee Dee River Railway | PDRR |
Pickens Railway | PICK |
South Carolina Central Railroad | SCRF |
South Dakota edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Dakota Southern Railway | DSRC |
Ellis and Eastern Company | EE |
Sisseton Milbank Railroad | SMRR |
Tennessee edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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East Tennessee Railway | ETRY |
Nashville & Eastern Railroad | NERR |
Texas edit
Utah edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Salt Lake City Southern Railroad | SL |
Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway | SLGW |
Utah Central Railway | UCRY |
Utah Railway | UTAH |
Vermont edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Vermont Railway | VTR |
New England Central Railroad | NECR |
Virginia edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Buckingham Branch Railroad | BB |
Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad | CA |
Commonwealth Railway | CWRY |
Delmarva Central Railroad | DCR |
North Carolina & Virginia Railroad | NCVA |
Shenandoah Valley Railroad | SV |
Virginia Southern Railroad | VSRR |
Winchester & Western Railroad | WW |
Washington edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Ballard Terminal Railroad | BDTL |
Cascade & Columbia River Railroad | CSCD |
Central Washington Railroad | CWRR |
Columbia and Cowlitz Railway | CLC |
Columbia Basin Railroad | CBRR |
Great Northwest Railroad | GRNW |
Kettle Falls International Railway | KFR |
Lewis and Clark Railway | LINC |
Meeker Southern Railroad | MSN |
Mount Vernon Terminal Railroad | MVT |
Olympia & Belmore Railroad | OYLO |
Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad | PSAP |
Spokane Spangle & Palouse Railway | SSP |
St. Paul & Pacific Northwest Railroad | STPP |
Tacoma Rail | TMRW |
Tri-City Railroad | TCRY |
Washington Eastern Railroad | WERR |
West Virginia edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Big Eagle Railroad | BER |
Wisconsin edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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East Troy Electric Railroad | ETER |
Tomahawk Railway | TR |
Wyoming edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Bighorn Divide and Wyoming Railroad | BDW |
Interstate edit
Railroad | AAR rep. mark |
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Bay Line Railroad (AL and FL) | BAYL |
Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CA and OR) | CORP |
Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad | CFE |
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (IL and IN) | CSS |
Cimarron Valley Railroad (CO, KS, and OK) | CVR |
Deseret Power Railroad (CO and UT) | DPRW |
Rail Link (operates 26 short line railroads) | RLIX |
Housatonic Railroad (HRRC) (CT, MA, NY) | HRRC |
Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad (ID and OR) | INPR |
Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad (IL and IN) | KBSR |
New York New Jersey Rail (NJ and NY) | NYNJ |
Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (ID and WA) | POVA |
St Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad (ME, NH, and VT) | SLA |
Utah Railway (CO and UT) | UTAH |
Watco (owners of 37 short lines) | WATX, WAMX |
Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway (OK and TX) | WTJR |