# List of defunct railroads of North America

The defunct railroads of North America regrouped several railroads in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The following is a list of the past railroad companies.

## Defunct railroad companies

* Algoma Central Railway (AC)
* Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
* Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
* Auto-Train Corporation (AUT)
* Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)
* Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR)
* Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway
* Boston and Albany Railroad (B&A)
* Boston and Maine Corporation (BM)
* Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway
* Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N)
* Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
* Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR)
* Central of Georgia Railway
* Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR)
* Central Railroad of New Jersey (Jersey Central) (CNJ)
* Central Vermont (CV)
* Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO)
* Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
* Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW)
* Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
* Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI)
* Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW)
* Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad
* Cincinnati, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad
* Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S)
* Columbia Tap Railway
* Conrail (CR)
* Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW)
* Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad (DT&M)
* Detroit and Pontiac Railroad (D&P)
* Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway (DGH&M)
* Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad (DTI)
* Erie Railroad (Erie)
* Florida Overseas Railroad
* Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad
* Grand Trunk (GT)
* Great Northern Railway (GN)
* Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
* Fernley and Lassen Railway
* Fredericksburg and Northern Railway
* Hudson Bay Railway (HBR)
* Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad
* Houston, East & West Texas Railroad
* Houston & Texas Central Railway
* Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
* Inter-California Railway
* Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC)
* International–Great Northern Railroad
* LaPorte Houston Northern Railway
* Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV)
* Lackawanna Railroad (Lackawanna)
* Louisville and Nashville Railroad (LN)
* Macon and Birmingham Railway (M&B)
* Maine Central (MEC)
* Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (MSTL)
* Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) (also known as the "KATY")
* Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
* National Transcontinental Railway (NTR)
* New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad
* New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
* New Orleans & Nashville Railroad – see Uptown New Orleans.
* New York Central (NYC)
* New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH)
* New York, Ontario and Western Railroad (OW)
* New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (NKP)
* Norfolk and Western Railway (NW)
* Northern Pacific Railway (NP)
* Northern Railway of Canada (NRC)
* Penn Central (PC)
* Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
* Pontchartrain Railroad
* Pontiac and Detroit Railroad
* Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR)
* Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
* Reading Railroad (RDG)
* St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway
* San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway
* Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL)
* Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP)
* Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SPSR)
* Texas and New Orleans Railroad (TNO)
* Toledo, Ann Arbor, and North Michigan Railway Company (T, AA & NM)
* Toledo, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad
* Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway
* Tuckerton Railroad (TRR)
* Tuskegee Railroad
* Warren and Ouachita Valley (W&OV)
* Western Maryland Railway (WM)
* Western Pacific Railroad (WP)
* Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad
* Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC)