what other railroad companies are there besides amtrak?

Answer 1

Amtrak is the only national passenger service railroad. There are short line excursion railroads around but they typically do not do revenue service in the typical sense of the word. There are local comuter service railroads all across the country such as SEPTA, and CALTRAN etc. As for freight service there are a few biggies that have been created out of some of the many railroads that have met untimely deaths in the last half century. Notably there is Norfolk Southern (NS), Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and CSX to name a few. There are also many short line railroads in operation such as the Reading & Northern, and North Shore.

Answer 2

Trains Besides Amtrak

Answer 3

Indeed, your question would take quite a long time to answer here as aside from the major Class Is mentioned above (of which there is also the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific) there are several Regional (Class II) and shortline (Class III) carriers along with tourist and commuter lines as well. Check out the below websites to find out more information about the different railroads across the country.

Answer 4

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Three railroads continued to offer long distance passenger service following the creation of Amtrak: Denver, Rio Grande & Western (D&RGW), Southern, and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRI&P). Rio Grande's famed "Rio Grande Zephyr" made its last run in April, 1983. After that, Amtrak's "California Zephyr" took over. CRI&P ceased operations in 1980. Southern eventually joined Amtrak. In certain urban areas, the railroads turned their commuter operations over to municipal, metropolitan or state authorities. For instance, when Conrail was formed, it also had the headache of providing commuter service, which lasted until 1983. Today, no freight railroads operate ANY kind of passenger service on their own, unless they host Amtrak or commuter railroads.

Answer 5

Well, Amtrak provides passenger service. Other companies, which provide all freight service, include: Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, BNSF (the combination of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe), CSX, and Norfolk Southern. Conrail is no longer an operating company. In recent years, its operating assets ---e.g. trackage and rolling stock--- were divided between Norfolk Southern and CSX.

Answer 6

Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Norfolk Southern
CSX Corp.
Iowa, Chicago & Eastern
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern
Montana Rail Link
WATCO family of shortlines
Many more, but these are the ones off the top of my head.

Answer 7

Passenger companies? There are none of Amtrak's scale but regional ones include GO!, the MTA group, CF rail, and various city metro lines.

Answer 8

Since the above guys mentioned Canadian rail companies.. Don't forget VIA Rail. They are the Canadian equivalent of Amtrak.

Answer 9

Amtrak is not a railroad company. In fact, it isn't any kind of company at all.

It is another in an endless line of Federally mandated, funded and operated bureaucracies, which goes a long way towards explaining its stellar non-performance and as a black hole into which is dumped hundreds of millions of tax payers' dollars every year, only to perpetuate its non-performance.

Its viability has been proven in commuting operations, however, and this aspect of its operation should be maintained. But the rest of the network has been and shall continue to be a losing proposition, and after nearly thirty years of non-solvency the network should be dismantled.

Think of it this way........

Suppose each and every time you stick your head out your front door, someone thumps you in the head with a 2x4. How many times are you gonna look to see if he's still there?

Answer 10

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