In the United States, a Class II railroad, sometimes referred to as a regional railroad, is a railroad company that is not Class I, but still has a substantial amount of traffic or trackage (and is thus not a short line). The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has defined the lower bound as 350 miles (560 km) of track or $40 million in annual operating revenue.[1] (The Class I threshold is $250 million, adjusted for inflation since 1991.[2]). As of 2021, a Class II railroad in the United States has an operating revenue greater than $39.2 million but less than $489.9 million.[3]
Current Class II railroads
- Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR)
- Alaska Railroad[4] (ARR)
- Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad[5] (BPRR)
- Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad[6](CORP)
- Evansville Western Railway (EVWR) [7]
- Florida East Coast Railway[6] (FEC)
- Great Lakes Central Railroad[8] (GLC)
- Indiana Rail Road (INRD)
- Iowa Interstate Railroad[9] (IAIS)
- Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad (KORR)
- Long Island Rail Road[10] (LI)
- Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA)
- Montana Rail Link[11] (MRL)
- Reintegration into BNSF pending Surface Transportation Board review[12]
- New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW)
- Paducah and Louisville Railway[13] (PAL)
- Providence and Worcester Railroad[14] (PW)
- Portland and Western Railroad (PNWR)
- Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad (RCPE)
- Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (RBMN), commonly known as simply "Reading and Northern"
- Wisconsin and Southern Railroad[15](WSOR)
- Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WE)
Former Class II railroads
- Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (reporting mark AR)
- Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS), owned by Norfolk Southern Railway[16]
- Atlanta and West Point Railroad (AWP), owned by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- New York, Ontario & Western (NYOW)
- Lehigh & Hudson River Railway (LHR)
- Lehigh & New England (LNE)
- Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE), owned by Canadian National Railway[17]
- Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (reporting mark BG) , incorporated by interests of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad , later merged with the Tonopah and Tidewater and the Las Vegas and Tonopah.
- Central of Georgia Railroad (CG), owned by Norfolk Southern Railway[16]
- Central Maine and Quebec Railway (CMQ), owned by Canadian Pacific Railway
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR)
- Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (reporting mark CC)
- Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway (reporting mark CMNW)
- Carolina and Northwestern Railway (reporting mark CRN)
- Central Vermont Railway (CV), owned by Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad[18] (DME), owned by Canadian Pacific Railway
- Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DMIR), owned by Canadian National Railway[17]
- Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad (DTS)
- Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway[19] (EJE), owned by Canadian National Railway
- Fox Valley and Western Ltd. (FVW), owned by Canadian National Railway[20]
- Gateway Western Railway (GWWR), owned by Kansas City Southern Railway[21]
- Georgia Southern and Florida Railway (GSF), owned by Norfolk Southern Railway[16]
- Georgia Railroad and Banking Company (GA) owned by Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL)
- Gulf and Mississippi Railroad (GMSR)
- I&M Rail Link[22] (IMRL)
- Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad[23] (ICE), owned by Canadian Pacific Railway
- Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (reporting mark LV&T)
- Magma Arizona Railroad (reporting mark MAA)
- Minarets and Western Railway (reporting mark M&W)
- Monongahela Railway (reporting mark MGA)
- Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA)
- MidSouth Rail Corporation (MSRC)
- Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway (reporting mark MNS)
- Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad (reporting mark OKKT)
- Pan Am Railways[24] (PAR), acquired by CSX Transportation[25]
- Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RFP)
- Spokane International Railroad (reporting mark SI)
- Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad (reporting mark T&G)
- Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (reporting mark T&T)
- Texas Mexican Railway (TM), owned by Kansas City Southern Railway[26]
- Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC), owned by Canadian National Railway[20]
- Western Railway of Alabama (WofA) owned by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
References
- ↑ Association of American Railroads, Overview of America's Freight Railroads, May 2008
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, FAQs, accessed October 2008
- ↑ Marsh, Joanna (2021-05-22). "Why are freight railroads separated into classes?". FreightWaves. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
- ↑ "Commuter Rail Safety Study". Archived from the original on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, GENESEE & WYOMING INC.--CONTROL EXEMPTION--COLUMBUS AND GREENVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY, THE CHATTOOGA AND CHICKAMAUGA RAILWAY COMPANY, AND LUXAPALILA VALLEY RAILROAD, INC., May 15, 2008
- 1 2 Surface Transportation Board, FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP LLC, ET AL.--CONTROL--FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY, LLC, September 28, 2007
- ↑ "Evansville Western Railway, Inc.-Temporary Trackage Rights Exemption-Illinois Central Railroad Company". Federal Register. June 13, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ↑ Great Lakes Central, , 2011
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, IOWA INTERSTATE RAILROAD, LTD.-ACQUISITION OF CONTROL EXEMPTION-LINCOLN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, December 22, 2006
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD COMPANY--DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE EXEMPTION--IN GARDEN CITY, LONG ISLAND, NY, September 6, 2002
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, DENNIS WASHINGTON et al.-CONTINUANCE CONTROL EXEMPTION-I&M RAIL LINK LLC, April 9, 1997
- ↑ Franz, Justin (2022-01-19). "Washington Companies to terminate Montana Rail Link lease". Montana Free Press. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, FOUR RIVERS TRANSPORTATION, INC., PADUCAH & LOUISVILLE RAILWAY, INC., AND EVANSVILLE WESTERN RAILWAY, INC. - CORPORATE FAMILY TRANSACTION EXEMPTION, August 8, 2007
- ↑ "PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAILROAD, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Mar 25, 2008". secdatabase.com. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO.--LEASE AND OPERATION EXEMPTION--SOO LINE RAILROAD COMPANY D/B/A CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, July 17, 2007
- 1 2 3 Annual Report of Norfolk Southern Combined Railroad Subsidiaries to the Surface Transportation Board for the Year Ended December 31, 2007, p. 13
- 1 2 Surface Transportation Board, CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY AND GRAND TRUNK CORPORATION-CONTROL-DULUTH, MISSABE AND IRON RANGE RAILWAY COMPANY, BESSEMER AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY AND THE PITTSBURGH & CONNEAUT DOCK COMPANY, December 1, 2003
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, DAKOTA, MINNESOTA & EASTERN RAILROAD CORPORATION--ACQUISITION EXEMPTION--LINE OF BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, May 14, 2008
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, TRANSTAR, INC.-CONTROL EXEMPTION-TEXAS & NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, August 8, 2007
- 1 2 Surface Transportation Board, CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY, GRAND TRUNK CORPORATION, AND WC MERGER SUB, INC.--CONTROL--WISCONSIN CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION, WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD., FOX VALLEY & WESTERN LTD., SAULTE STE. MARIE BRIDGE COMPANY, AND WISCONSIN CHICAGO LINK LTD., May 9, 2001
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY--ACQUISITION AND MERGER EXEMPTION--GATEWAY WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, October 19, 2001
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, IOWA, CHICAGO & EASTERN RAILROAD CORPORATION--ACQUISITION AND OPERATION EXEMPTION--LINES OF I&M RAIL LINK, LLC, June 12, 2002
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, IOWA, CHICAGO & EASTERN RAILROAD CORPORATION--ACQUISITION EXEMPTION--LINE OF BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, December 4, 2007
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, PAN AM RAILWAYS, INC., ET AL.-JOINT CONTROL AND OPERATING/POOLING AGREEMENTS-PAN AM SOUTHERN LLC, June 26, 2008
- ↑ "STB Issues Additional Hearing Information in CSX/Pan Am Merger Application Review". Surface Transportation Board. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ↑ Surface Transportation Board, KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN--CONTROL--THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, GATEWAY EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, AND THE TEXAS MEXICAN RAILWAY COMPANY, November 29, 2004
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