Shortline Railroad

**Shortline Railroads** san d' kloansdn Eisnbauhngsöllschofdn in Ameriga.

Eisnbauhna im Gütavakehr wean in de Stoodn in 3 Klossn einteult.

Do gibds de STB (U. S. Surface Transportation Board), de sogt:
* Class I railroads: Umsotz iwa 458 Mio. $
* Class II railroads: Umsotz zwisch'n 37 Mio. $ und 458 Mio. $
* Class III railroads: Umsotz unta 37 Mio. $

De AAR (Association of American Railroad) definiert wos oagans, weu "mia san mia"
* Class I railroads: ident mit STB
* Regional railroads: iwa 350 Meil'n Streck'n und mehra ois 20 Mio. $ Umsotz oda iwa 40 Mio. $ Umsatz unabhängig vaun da Netzläng'n
* Local oder shortline railroads: olle aundarn Bauhna, de net om eini foin. Nem de „normaln“ ISS (Interline Settlement Systems) a de "Switching and terminal railroads", de nur im Verschub und Güterumschlag tätig san.

Es san sieb'n Class I Railroads, umara dreisg Regionals und ~550 Shortlines. Eppa de Höftn vo de Shortlines ghean mid zua ana Dochgsöllschofd - de greßte davau is Genesee & Wyoming mit 115 Bauhna, daun kimt Watco, OmniTRAX, Pioneer Railcorp. und Iowa Pacific Holdings.

Aft is schwa zum sag'n, is' dös iatzt a Shortline oda a Regional Railroad, weil de wern owi oda aufig'stuaft, wans 5 Joahr nochanaund de Kriterien nima dafün. De meist'n Shortlines foin in d' Klassn III noch STB.

## Listn vaun Shortlines (ohne ''Terminal and Switching Railroads'')

A T & L Railroad
Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad
Aberdeen, Carolina, & Western Railway
Acadiana Railway
Alabama and Tennessee River Railway
Alabama Southern Railroad
Alexander Railroad
AN Railway
Angelina & Neches River Railroad
Ann Arbor Railroad
Apache Railway
Appalachian and Ohio Railroad
Arcade & Attica Railroad
Arizona & California Railroad
Arizona Central Railroad
Arkansas & Missouri Railroad
Arkansas & Oklahoma Railroad
Arkansas Midland Railroad
Arkansas Southern Railroad
Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi Railway
Ashland Railway
Athens Line
Atlantic & Western Railway
Austin Western Railroad
Autauga Northern Railroad
Batten Kill Railroad
Bauxite & Northern Railway
Bay Coast Railroad
Bay Colony Railroad
Bay Line Railroad
Beaufort & Morehead Railway
Beech Mountain Railroad
Belvidere Delaware River Rwy
BG&CM Railroad
BHP Nevada
Blacklands Railroad
Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad
Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad (Bloomer Line)
Blue Ridge Southern Railroad
Boise Valley Railroad
Border Pacific Railroad
Buckingham Branch Railroad
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway
Caddo Valley Railroad
Caldwell County Railroad
California Northern Railroad
Carolina Coastal Railway
Carolina Piedmont Railroad
Carolina Southern Railroad
Cascade & Columbia River RR
Cedar Rapids & Iowa City RR
Central Midland Railway
Central Montana Rail
Central New England Railroad
Central New York Railroad
Central Railroad of Indiana
Central Railroad of Indianapolis
Central Texas & Colerado River Railway
Chattahoochee Bay Railroad
Chattahoochee Industrial RR
Chattanooga & Chickamauga Rwy
Chesapeake & Albemarle RR 
Chesapeake and Indiana Railroad
Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad
Chicago, Shore Shore, and South Bend RR
City of Prineville Railway 
Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad 
Columbia & Cowlitz Railway 
Columbia Basin Railroad Co. 
Columbia Terminal Railway
Columbus & Greenville Railway 
Columbus & Ohio River Railroad 
Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad
Commonwealth Railway 
Conecuh Valley Railroad Co. 
Connecticut Southern Railroad 
Coos Bay Rail Link
Copper Basin Railway 
D & I Railroad 
Dakota Rail 
Dardanelle & Russellville Railroad 
Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad 
Delmarva Central Railroad
Delta Southern Railroad 
Depew,  Lancester, & Western RR
DeQueen & Eastern Railroad
Dubois County Railroad 
East Cooper & Berkeley Railroad 
East Penn Railroad
East Tennessee Railway
Eastern Alabama Railway 
Eastern Idaho Railroad 
Eastern Maine Railway 
Effingham Railroad 
El Dorado & Wesson Railway 
Elk River Railroad 
Escanaba & Lake Superior RR
Evansville Western Railway
Everett Railroad
Falls Road Railroad 
Finger Lakes Railway 
First Coast Railroad
Florida Central Railroad 
Florida Midland Railroad 
Florida Northern Railroad 
Florida West Coast Railroad 
Fredonia Valley Railroad 
Fulton County Railroad 
Georgetown Railroad 
Georgia & Florida Railway
Georgia Central Railway 
Georgia Northeastern Railroad 
Georgia Southern Railway
Georgia Southwestern Railroad 
Gettysburg & Northern Railroad 
Golden Triangle Railroad 
Grainbelt Corp. 
Grand Elk Railroad
Great Northwest Railroad
Great Smoky Mountains Railway 
Great Walton Railroad 
Great Western Railway of Colorado 
Green Mountain Railroad
Greenville and Western Railway
Grenada Railway
Hampton & Branchville Railroad 
Hampton Railway 
Hartwell Railroad 
Heart of Georgia Railroad 
Hollidaysburg & Roaring Spring RR 
Honey Creek Railroad 
Housatonic Railroad 
Huntsville & Madison County RR 
Huron & Eastern Railway 
Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad 
Illinois & Midland Railroad 
Illinois Railway
Illinois Western Railroad
Indiana Northeastern Railroad 
Indiana Southern Railroad 
Iowa Northern Railway 
Iowa Southern Railway 
Iowa Traction Railroad 
Juniata Valley Railroad 
Kanawha River Railroad
Kankakee, Beaverville, & Southern RR
Kaw River Railroad
Kentucky & Tennessee Railroad
Kentucky West Tennessee Railway (KWT)
Keokuk Junction Railway 
Kettle Falls International Railway
Kiamichi Railroad 
Lake State Railway 
Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR 
Lancaster & Chester Railroad
Laurinburg & Southern Railroad 
Lewis & Clark Railway 
Little Rock & Western Railway 
Livonia, Avon & Lakeville RR 
Louisiana & North West Railroad
Louisiana Southern Railroad
Louisville & Indiana Railroad 
Lubbock and Western Railway
Lucas Oil Rail Lines
Luxapalila Valley Railroad 
Lycoming Valley Railroad 
M & B Railroad (Meridian and Bigbee)
Madison Railroad 
Maine Northern Railway
Maryland & Delaware Railroad 
Maryland Midland Railway 
Massachusetts Central Railroad 
Massachusetts Coastal Railroad 
Meridian Southern Railway 
Middletown & Hummelstown RR 
Middletown & New Jersey Railway 
Milford-Bennington Railroad 
Minnesota Northern Railroad
Minnesota Prairie Lines Inc.
Minnesota Southern Railway 
Minnesota, Dakota, & Western Rwy
Mission Mountain Railroad
Mississippi Delta Railroad
Mississippi Export Railroad
Mississippi Southern Railroad
Mississippian Railway Coop.
Mohawk, Adirondack, & Northern
Morristown & Erie Railway
Mount Hood Railroad
Nashville & Eastern Railroad
Naugatuck Railroad
Nebraska Central Railroad
Nebraska Northwestern Railroad
New England Central Railroad
New England Southern Railroad
New Hampshire Central Railroad 
New Hampshire Nortcoast Corp. 
New Hope & Ivyland Railroad 
New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway
New York & Atlantic Railway 
New York & Lake Erie Railroad 
New York & Ogdensburg Railway
New York New Jersey Rail
Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad
North Shore Railroad
Northern Lines Railway
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Ohio Central Railroad
Ohio Southern Railroad
Oil Creek & Titusville Lines Inc. 
Old Augusta Railroad
Olympia and Belmore Railroad
Ontario Central Railroad
Ontario Midland Railroad
Otter Tail Valley Railroad
Ouachita Railroad
Pacific Sun Railroad
Palouse River & Coulee City RR 
Panhandle Northern Railroad
Pecos Valley Southern Railway
Pee Dee River Railway 
Pend Oreille Valley Railroad 
Penn Eastern Rail Lines 
Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad
Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad
Pickens Railway 
Piedmont and Northern Railway
Pioneer Valley Railroad 
Point Comfort & Northern Railway
Prescott & Northwestern Railroad
Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad 
Quincy Bay Terminal Co.
R. J. Corman RR-Bardstown Line 
R. J. Corman RR-California Line
R. J. Corman RR-Central Kentucky Line 
R. J. Corman RR-Cleveland Line 
R. J. Corman RR-Memphis Line 
R. J. Corman RR-Pennsylvania Line 
R. J. Corman RR-Texas Line
R. J. Corman RR-West Virginia Line
R. J. Corman RR-Western Ohio Line 
Redmont Railway 
Riceboro Southern Railway
Ripley and New Albany Railroad
Rochester & Southern Railroad
Rock & Rail Inc.
Rockdale, Sandow, & Southern RR
Rutland Line Inc.
Sabine River & Northern Railroad
Salt Lake, Garfield, & Western Rwy
San Diego & Imperial Valley 
San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad
San Luis Central Railroad 
San Pedro and Southwestern Railroad
Sand Springs Railway
Sandersville Railroad
Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Railroad
Santa Maria Valley Railroad
Seminole Gulf Railway
Sequatchie Valley Railroad
Shamokin Valley Railroad
Sierra Northern Railway
Sierra Railroad
Sisseton Milbank Railroad
SMS Rail Lines
South Branch Valley Railroad
South Carolina Central Railroad
South Central Florida Express Inc. 
South Central Tennessee Railroad
Southern Indiana Railway
Southern Railroad of NJ 
St. Croix Valley Railroad 
St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad 
St. Mary's Railroad
Stillwater Central Railroad
Stockton Terminal & Eastern RR
Stourbridge Railroad
Tacoma Rail-Mountain Division
Tazewell and Peoria Railroad
Tennessee Southern Railroad 
Tennken Railroad
Texas & New Mexico Railroad
Texas & Northern Railway
Texas North Western Railway 
Texas Northeastern Railroad
Texas Rock Crusher Railway 
Thermal Belt Railway
Three Notch Railroad
Timber Rock Railroad 
Toledo, Peoria, & Western Rwy
Tomahawk Railway
Trona Railway
Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway 
Twin Cities & Western Railroad 
Tyburn Railroad
Union County Industrial Railroad
V & S Railway
Valdosta Railway
Vandalia Railroad
Ventura County Railroad
Vermilion Valley Railroad
Vermont Railway
Vicksburg Southern Railroad
Walking Horse & Eastern Railroad 
Wallowa Union Railroad Authority
Warren & Saline River Railroad 
Washington County Railroad
Wellsboro & Corning Railroad 
West Isle Line Inc.
West Tennessee Railroad
West Virginia Central
Western New York & Pennsylvania RR
Western Rail Road Co.
Winchester & Western-NJ Division
Winchester & Western-VA Division
Wiregrass Central Railroad
Wisconsin Northern Railroad
Yadkin Valley Railroad
Yellowstone Valley Railroad
York Railway
Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad
Yreka Western Railroad


(Stand 2017, fiar Vollstöndigkeit koa Gewähr net)

## Im Netz
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170430043837/https://www.fra.dot.gov/Elib/Document/14131, zletzt ogriaft am 11.7.2017