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
- Alton Railroad
- Atchison and Nebraska Railroad
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Auto-Train Corporation
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
- Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway
- Bevier and Southern Railroad
- Boonville, St. Louis and Southern Railway
- Boston and Albany Railroad
- Boston and Maine Corporation
- Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway
- Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway
- Burlington Northern Railroad
- Canadian Northern Railway
- Central of Georgia Railway
- Central Pacific Railroad
- Central Railroad of New Jersey (Jersey Central)
- Central Vermont
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
- Chessie System
- Chicago and Alton Railroad
- Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway
- Chicago and North Western Transportation Company
- Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- Chicago Great Western Railway
- Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
- Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway
- Chicago Northwestern Railroad
- Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
- Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway
- Chillicothe–Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority
- Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad
- Cincinnati Northern Railroad
- Cincinnati, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
- Colorado and Southern Railway
- Columbia Tap Railway
- Conrail
- Cotton Belt Railroad
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
- Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad
- Detroit and Pontiac Railroad
- Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway
- Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad
- Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway
- Erie Railroad
- Florida Overseas Railroad
- Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad
- Gateway Western Railway
- Grand Trunk
- Great Northern Railway
- Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
- Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
- Fernley and Lassen Railway
- Fredericksburg and Northern Railway
- Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
- Hudson Bay Railway
- Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad
- Houston, East & West Texas Railroad
- Houston & Texas Central Railway
- I&M Rail Link
- Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
- Illinois Central Railroad
- Illinois Southern Railway
- Illinois Terminal Railroad
- Inter-California Railway
- Intercolonial Railway of Canada
- International-Great Northern Railroad
- Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad
- Kansas City and Cameron Railroad
- Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway
- Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railroad
- Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway
- Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad
- Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad
- Kansas Pacific Railway
- LaPorte Houston Northern Railway
- Lehigh Valley Railroad
- Lackawanna Railroad
- Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad
- Macon and Birmingham Railway
- Maine Central
- Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad
- Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway
- Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway
- Mississippi Valley and Western Railway
- Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway
- Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad
- Missouri–Illinois Railroad
- Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad
- Missouri Pacific Railroad
- Mobile and Ohio Railroad
- National Transcontinental Railway
- New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad
- New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
- New Orleans & Nashville Railroad - see Uptown New Orleans.
- New York Central Railroad
- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
- New York, Ontario and Western Railroad
- New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
- Norfolk and Western Railway
- Northern Pacific Railway
- Northern Railway of Canada
- Ohio and Mississippi Railway
- Osage Valley and Southern Kansas Railroad
- Penn Central Transportation Company
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
- Pontchartrain Railroad
- Pontiac and Detroit Railroad
- Prince Edward Island Railway
- Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
- Reading Railroad
- St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway
- St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railway
- St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway
- St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway
- San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway
- Seaboard Air Line Railroad
- Seaboard System Railroad
- Southern Pacific Railroad
- Southern Pacific Transportation Company
- Southern Railway
- Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
- Tebo and Neosho Railroad
- Texas and New Orleans Railroad
- Toledo, Ann Arbor, and North Michigan Railway Company
- Toledo, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad
- Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad
- Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway
- Tuckerton Railroad
- Tuskegee Railroad
- Wabash Railroad
- Warren and Ouachita Valley Railway
- Western Maryland Railway
- Western Pacific Railroad
- Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
- Wisconsin Central Ltd.