The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Common freight carriers

  • Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad (AOR) Genesee & Wyoming
  • Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR)
  • Allentown and Auburn Railroad (ALLN)
  • BD Highspire Holdings (BDHH)
  • Belvidere and Delaware River Railway (BDRV)
  • Brandywine Valley Railroad (BVRY)
  • Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) (Genesee & Wyoming)
  • Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE)
  • Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) through subsidiary Delaware and Hudson Railway (DH)
  • Central New York Railroad (CNYK)
  • Chestnut Ridge Railroad (CHR)
  • Columbia and Reading Railway (CORY)
  • Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CRR)
  • operates Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad (PBL)
  • CSX (CSX)
  • Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad (DL)
  • East Erie Commercial Railroad (EEC)
  • East Penn Railroad (ESPN) (Regional Rail, LLC)
  • Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad (EZR)
  • Everett Railroad (EV)
  • Gettysburg and Northern Railroad (GET)
  • Juniata Valley Railroad (JVRR) North Shore Railroad)
  • Kasgro Rail Lines (KRL)
  • Kiski Junction Railroad (KJR)
  • Landisville Railroad (LVR)
  • Lehigh Railway (LRWY)
  • Lehigh Valley Rail Management (LVRB, LVRC, LVRJ)
  • Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway (LS)
  • Lycoming Valley Railroad (LVRR) (North Shore Railroad (Pennsylvania))
  • Maryland Midland Railway (MMID) (Genesee & Wyoming)
  • Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad (MIDH)
  • New Castle Industrial Railroad (NCIR)
  • New Hope Railroad (NHRR)
  • New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW)
  • Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad (NBER) (North Shore Railroad (Pennsylvania))
  • Norfolk Southern (NS)
  • NDC Railroad (NDC)
  • North Shore Railroad (NSHR)
  • Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad (OCTL)
  • Pennsylvania & Southern Railway (PSCC)
  • Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad (PN)
  • Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad (PSWR)
  • Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad (PAM)
  • Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad (POHC) (Genesee & Wyoming)
  • Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (RBMN)
  • R.J. Corman Railroad/Allentown Line (RJCN)
  • R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines (RJCP)
  • Shamokin Valley Railroad (SVRR) (North Shore Railroad (Pennsylvania))
  • SMS Rail Lines (SRL)
  • Operates Penn Jersey Rail Lines
  • Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad (SWP)
  • Strasburg Railroad (SRC)
  • Tyburn Railroad (TYBR) (Regional Rail, LLC)
  • Union Railroad (URR)
  • Union County Industrial Railroad (UCIR) (North Shore Railroad (Pennsylvania))
  • Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad (UMP)
  • Wellsboro and Corning Railroad (WCOR) (Genesee & Wyoming)
  • Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (WNYP)
  • Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WE)
  • York Railway (YRC) (Genesee and Wyoming)
  • Operates Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (Genesee & Wyoming) and Yorkrail
  • Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad (YSRR)

Private freight carriers

  • Cumberland Mine Railroad
  • Alpha Natural Resources
  • Conshohocken Recycling and Rail Transfer, Inc (CRRT)
  • Juniata Terminal Company (JTFS)
  • Leetsdale Industrial Terminal Railway (LIT)

Passenger carriers

  • Allentown and Auburn Railroad (heritage railroad)
  • Amtrak (AMTK) (national passenger rail)
  • CamTran (Johnstown mass transit agency operates Johnstown Inclined Plane)
  • Colebrookdale Railroad (heritage railroad)
  • Delaware Lackawanna RailRoad
  • East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company
  • Fayette Central Railroad (tourist trains operating over Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad trackage)
  • Kiski Junction Railroad (working railroad that also operates tourist trains)
  • Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (heritage railroad)
  • Lehigh Lackawanna RailRoad
  • Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad (working railroad, but with emphasis on tourist trains)
  • New Hope Railroad (working railroad that also operates tourist trains)
  • New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (Atlantic City Line commuter train travels from Philadelphia)
  • Oil Creek and Titusville Lines (working railroad, but with emphasis on tourist trains)
  • Pioneer Lines Scenic Railway (heritage railroad)
  • Port Authority of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh mass transit agency that operates The T light rail, the Monongahela Incline, and the Duquesne Incline)
  • Port Authority Transit Corporation (Bi-state authority operates Philadelphia-Camden County subway line)
  • SEPTA (Philadelphia mass transit agency that operates SEPTA Regional Rail commuter lines, the Philadelphia Subway, and a variety of suburban light rail lines)
  • Strasburg Railroad (heritage railroad)
  • Tioga Central Railroad (heritage railroad)
  • Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad (heritage railroad)
  • West Chester Railroad (heritage railroad)

Museums and historic sites

  • Allegheny Portage Railroad
  • Howard Tunnel
  • Electric City Trolley Museum
  • Gallitzin Tunnel
  • Horseshoe Curve
  • Mars Station, Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
  • Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
  • Reading Company Technical & Historical Society
  • Rockhill Trolley Museum
  • Steamtown National Historic Site
  • Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum

Defunct railroads

<!--Kettle Creek Cove Mine Company? White Creek Valley? Did the Mahanoy and Hazleton Railway actually operate? Should ISG Railways be listed? Keystone Railroad? Mount Union Connecting Railroad? Philadelphia and West Chester Railroad? People's Railway? Olean Railroad? Charleroi and Monessen Connecting Railroad?-->

{| class="wikitable sortable"

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!Name

!Mark

!System

!From

!To

!Successor

!Notes

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|Addison and Pennsylvania Railway

|

|B&O

|1887

|1898

|Susquehanna and New York Railroad

|-

|Addison and Northern Pennsylvania Railway

|

|B&O

|1882

|1887

|Addison and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Aliquippa and Southern Railroad

|ALQS

|

|1906

|2002

|Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad

|-

|Allegheny Railroad

|ALY

|

|1985

|1992

|Allegheny and Eastern Railroad

|-

|Allegheny and Bald Eagle Railroad, Coal and Iron Company

|

|PRR

|1839

|1859

|Bellefonte and Snowshoe Railroad

|-

|Allegheny and Eastern Railroad

|ALY

|

|1992

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Allegheny Junction Railroad

|

|

|1898

|1907<!--charter surrendered https://books.google.com/books?id=g7EXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304-->

|N/A<!--?-->

|-

|Allegheny and South Side Railway

|AYSS

|

|1892

|<!--no idea - it definitely existed after 1959; that was just when the P&LE and PRR started operating it, I think; Conrail track charts show it as part of the Whitehall Branch-->

|

|-

|Allegheny Southern Railway

|ASRW

|

|1982

|1985

|Everett Railroad

|-

|Allegheny Terminal Company

|

|

|1899

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Allegheny Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1852

|1891

|Allegheny Valley Railway

|-

|Allegheny Valley Railway

|

|PRR

|1892

|1910

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Allegheny and Western Railway

|

|B&O

|1896

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation

|-

|Allentown Railroad

|

|RDG

|1853

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Allentown Terminal Railroad

|

|CNJ/ RDG

|1888

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad

|

|

|1897

|1910

|Altoona, Juniata and Northern Railway

|-

|Altoona, Clearfield and Northern Railroad

|

|

|1891

|1897

|Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad

|-

|Altoona, Juniata and Northern Railway

|

|

|1910

|1913

|Altoona Northern Railroad

|-

|Altoona Northern Railroad

|

|

|1912

|1919

|N/A

|-

|Altoona and Philipsburg Connecting Railroad

|

|

|1892

|1906

|New York and Pittsburgh Air Line Railroad

|-

|Anthracite Railway

|ATRW

|

|1983

|1989

|Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad

|-

|Arnot and Pine Creek Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1881

|1937

|Tioga Railroad

|-

|Atlantic and Great Western Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1871

|1880

|New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad

|-

|Atlantic and Great Western Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1858

|1865

|Atlantic and Great Western Railway

|-

|Atlantic and Great Western Railway

|

|ERIE

|1865

|1871

|Atlantic and Great Western Railroad

|-

|Auburn and Port Clinton Railroad

|

|RDG

|1854

|1857

|Allentown Railroad

|-

|Altoona and Wopsononock Railroad

|

|

|1890

|1891

|Altoona, Clearfield and Northern Railroad

|-

|Bachman Valley Railroad

|

|WM

|1871

|1886

|Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway

|-

|Bald Eagle Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1861

|1908

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Baltimore Coal and Union Railroad Company

|

|D&H

|1868

|1871

|Northern Coal and Iron Company

|-

|Baltimore and Cumberland Valley Railroad

|

|WM

|1878

|1917

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Baltimore and Cumberland Valley Railroad Extension Company

|

|WM

|1880

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation

|-

|Baltimore and Hanover Railroad

|

|WM

|1877

|1886

|Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway

|-

|Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway

|

|WM

|1886

|1917

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway (Eastern Extension)

|

|WM

|1888

|1917

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway (Western Extension)

|

|WM

|1888

|1917

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad

|

|

|1891

|1894

|York Southern Railroad

|-

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

|B&O, BO

|B&O

|1876<!--leased the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad - or was the Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore earlier?-->

|1987

|Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

|-

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|

|B&O

|1912

|1980

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

|-

|Baltimore and Ohio Short Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1885

|1887

|Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad

|-

|Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad

|

|B&O

|1883

|1989

|CSX Transportation

|-

|Baltimore and Philadelphia Railway

|

|B&O

|1883

|1883

|Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad

|-

|Bangor and Bath Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1880

|1880

|Bangor and Portland Railway

|-

|Bangor and Portland Railway

|

|DL&W

|1879

|1909

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Barclay Railroad

|

|LV

|1891

|1902

|Susquehanna and New York Railroad

|-

|Barclay Coal Company

|

|LV

|1862

|1891

|Barclay Railroad

|-

|Barclay Railroad and Coal Company

|

|LV

|1854

|1862

|Barclay Coal Company

|-

|Bare Rock Railroad

|

|

|1892

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Bear Creek Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1865

|1867

|Shenango and Allegheny Railroad

|-

|Beaver Connecting Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Beaver and Ellwood Railroad

|

|PLE

|1890

|1916

|Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company

|

|LV

|1830

|1864

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Beaver Meadow, Tresckow and New Boston Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1894

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|Beaver Valley Railroad

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1899

|1941

|Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad<!--did this become jointly owned property?-->

|-

|Bedford Railroad

|

|

|1859

|1864

|Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company

|-

|Bedford and Blair County Railroad

|

|PRR

|1893

|1894

|Pennsylvania Midland Railroad

|-

|Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad

|

|PRR

|1868

|1891

|Bedford and Bridgeport Railway

|-

|Bedford and Bridgeport Railway

|

|PRR

|1891

|1911

|Hollidaysburg, Bedford and Cumberland Railroad

|-

|Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1902

|1911

|Hollidaysburg, Bedford and Cumberland Railroad

|-

|Beech Creek Railroad

|

|NYC

|1886

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Beech Creek, Clearfield and Southwestern Railroad

|

|NYC

|1883

|1886

|Beech Creek Railroad

|-

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|

|NYC

|1901

|1961

|New York Central Railroad

|-

|Bellefonte and Buffalo Run Railroad

|

|

|1882

|1882

|Buffalo Run, Bellefonte and Bald Eagle Railroad

|-

|Bellefonte Central Railroad

|BFC

|

|1892

|1985

|Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad

|-

|Bellefonte, Nittany and Lemont Railroad

|

|PRR

|1883

|1889

|Bald Eagle Valley Railroad

|-

|Bellefonte and Snowshoe Railroad

|

|PRR

|1859

|1881

|Bald Eagle Valley Railroad

|-

|Bell's Gap Railroad

|

|PRR

|1871

|1889

|Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad

|-

|Bells Run Railroad

|

|

|1903

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Belvidere Delaware Railroad

|

|PRR

|1896

|1958<!--or December 31, 1957?-->

|United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

|-

|Berks and Chester Railroad

|

|RDG

|1864

|1866

|Wilmington and Reading Railroad

|-

|Berks County Railroad

|

|RDG

|1871

|1874

|Reading and Lehigh Railroad

|-

|Berlin Railroad

|

|B&O

|1879

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Berlin Branch Railroad

|

|

|1876

|1903

|East Berlin Railway

|-

|Bethlehem Railroad

|

|LNE

|1861

|1864

|Lehigh and Lackawanna Railroad

|-

|Big Level and Bradford Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1883

|Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railway

|-

|Big Level and Kinzua Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1911

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Binghamton, Towanda and Western Railway

|

|LV

|1902

|1902

|Susquehanna and New York Railroad

|-

|Blacklick and Yellow Creek Railroad

|

|

|1904

|1911

|Cambria and Indiana Railroad

|-

|Blacksville and Western Railway<!--or was this WV only?-->

|

|MGA

|1917

|1917

|Morgantown and Wheeling Railway

|-

|Bloom Run Railroad

|

|

|1902

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad

|BBS

|RDG

|1883

|1928

|Reading Company

|-

|Blossburg Coal Mining and Railroad Company

|

|

|1866

|1885

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad

|BMRG

|

|1983

|1995

|Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad

|-

|Bradford Railroad

|

|PRR

|1911

|1932

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Bradford Railway

|

|PRR

|1881

|1911

|Bradford Railroad

|-

|Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua Railroad

|

|

|1880

|1892

|Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua Railway

|-

|Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua Railway

|

|

|1892

|1903

|Buffalo, Bradford and Kane Railroad

|-

|Bradford, Bordell and Smethport Railroad

|

|

|1880

|1892

|Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua Railway

|-

|Bradford and Foster Brook Railway

|

|

|1877

|1879

|N/A

|-

|Bradford Industrial Rail

|BR

|

|1993

|2004

|Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Bradford and State Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1881

|Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Bradford and Western Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|

|1891

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Bridgeport and Widemire Railway

|

|B&O

|1896

|1913

|Clearfield and Mahoning Railway

|-

|Bristol Industrial Terminal Railway

|BITY

|

|1992

|1997

|Penn Eastern Rail Lines

|-

|Brock Railroad

|

|

|1903

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Brockport and Shawmut Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1886

|1940

|New York, Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad Company

|-

|Brockwayville and Punxsutawney Railroad

|

|B&O

|1882

|1891

|Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Brooks Mills and Altoona Railroad

|

|PRR

|1894

|1894

|Pennsylvania Midland Railroad

|-

|Brookville Railway

|

|

|1896

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Brookville and Mahoning Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1903

|1909

|Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad

|-

|Brownstone and Middletown Railroad

|

|

|1892

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|Brownsville Railway

|

|PRR

|1875

|1880

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|-

|Brownsville and New Haven Railway

|

|B&O

|1876

|1882

|Ohio and Baltimore Short Line Railway

|-

|Brownsville and State Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1893

|1894

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|-

|Bruce and Clairton Railroad

|

|P&WV

|1901

|1902

|West Side Belt Railroad

|-

|Buffalo and Bradford Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1856

|1859

|Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, Bradford and Kane Railroad

|

|

|1904

|1931<!--?-->

|N/A

|Operated by Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1859

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, Chautauqua Lake and Pittsburgh Railway

|

|PRR

|1879

|1880

|Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway

|-

|Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|PRR

|1867

|1872

|Corry and State Line Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago Railway

|

|NKP

|1881

|1881

|New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

|-

|Buffalo Coal and Iron Company

|

|DL&W

|1856

|1860

|Continental Coal Company

|-

|Buffalo and Erie Railroad

|

|NYC

|1867

|1869

|Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway

|-

|Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad

|

|PRR

|1883

|1887

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway of Pennsylvania

|-

|Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway

|

|PRR

|1871

|1883

|Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|

|PRR

|1881

|1883

|Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

|BR&P

|B&O

|1887

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation

|-

|Buffalo Run, Bellefonte and Bald Eagle Railroad

|

|

|1882

|1891

|Bellefonte Central Railroad

|-

|Buffalo and St. Marys Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1895

|1897

|Buffalo, St. Marys and Southwestern Railroad

|-

|Buffalo, St. Marys and Southwestern Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1897

|1899

|Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

|-

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|B&S

|B&O

|1891

|1954

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

|-

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway

|

|B&O

|1907

|1910

|N/A

|Leased the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Buffalo Valley Railroad

|

|B&O

|1868

|1879

|Berlin Railroad

|-

|Buffalo and Washington Railway

|

|PRR

|1866

|1871

|Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway

|-

|Bustleton Railroad

|

|PRR

|1891

|1902

|Connecting Railway

|-

|Bustleton and Eastern Railroad

|

|PRR

|1893

|1893

|Philadelphia, Bustleton and Trenton Railroad

|-

|Butler and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1896

|1897

|Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Caledonia Iron, Land and Railroad Company

|

|PRR

|1867

|1869

|Southern Pennsylvania Iron and Railroad Company

|-

|Cambria and Clearfield Railroad

|

|PRR

|1887

|1903

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|

|PRR

|1903

|1913

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Cambria County Railroad

|

|NYC

|1896

|1898

|Beech Creek Railroad

|-

|Cambria and Indiana Railroad

|CI

|

|1911

|1994

|N/A

|-

|Cammal and Black Forest Railway

|

|

|1894

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Canoe Creek Railroad

|

|NYC

|1900

|1901

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|-

|Carbon Limestone Railroad

|

|PLE

|1894

|1894

|Mahoning State Line Railroad

|-

|Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad

|

|RDG

|1854

|1944

|Reading Company

|-

|Catawissa Railroad

|

|RDG

|1860

|1953

|Reading Company

|-

|Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad

|

|RDG

|1849

|1860

|Catawissa Railroad

|-

|Central Columbiana and Pennsylvania Railway

|CQPA

|

|2001

|2004

|Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Central Railroad of New Jersey

|CNJ

|CNJ

|1952<!--back from CRP-->

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Central Railroad of New Jersey

|CNJ

|CNJ

|1871<!--leased the LC&N-->

|1946

|Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

|-

|Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

|CRP

|CNJ

|1944

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

|

|

|1891

|1918

|N/A

|-

|Central Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|

|1889

|1891

|Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

|-

|Central Pennsylvania Railroad (Eastern Extension)

|

|

|1890

|1891

|Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

|-

|Central Pennsylvania and Western Railroad

|

|PRR

|1893

|1902

|Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad

|-

|Central Trunk Railway

|

|NYC

|1868

|1909

|Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad

|-

|Chambersburg and Gettysburg Railroad

|

|

|1890

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Chambersburg, Greencastle and Hagerstown Railroad

|

|PRR

|1853

|1859

|Franklin Railroad

|-

|Chapman and Lehigh Railway

|

|DL&W

|1881

|1882

|Bangor and Portland Railway

|-

|Chartiers Railway

|

|PRR

|1867

|1907

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

|-

|Chartiers Connecting Railroad

|

|PRR

|1881

|1899

|Chartiers Railway

|-

|Chartiers and Mansfield Valley Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1880

|1881

|Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railway

|-

|Chartiers Southern Railway

|

|MGA

|1906

|1929

|Monongahela Railway

|-

|Chartiers Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1853

|1866

|Chartiers Railway

|-

|Cheat Haven Railroad

|

|B&O

|1902

|1907

|Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad

|-

|Cheat Haven and Bruceton Railroad

|

|B&O

|1911

|1965<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Cheat River Railroad

|

|B&O

|1896

|1907

|Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad

|-

|Cherry Grove Railroad

|

|

|1884

|1894

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|-

|Cherry Springs Railroad

|

|B&O

|1893

|1893

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad

|

|NYC/ PRR

|1903

|1970

|Penn Central Transportation Company

|-

|Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

|CO

|

|1987

|1987

|CSX Transportation

|-

|Chester Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1866

|1917

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Chester and Delaware River Railroad

|

|RDG

|1871

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Chester Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1850

|1888

|Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad

|-

|Chester Valley Railway

|CHTS

|

|1996

|1997

|Penn Eastern Rail Lines

|-

|Chestnut Hill Railroad

|

|RDG

|1848

|1948

|Reading Company

|-

|Chestnut Ridge Railroad of Pennsylvania

|

|

|1898

|1902

|Chestnut Ridge Railway

|-

|Chestnut Ridge Railway

|CHR

|

|1902

|2003

|Chestnut Ridge Railroad

|Owned by New Jersey Zinc and successors from 1907

|-

|Cheswick and Harmar Railroad

|CHH

|

|1901

|1972

|N/A

|Formerly owned by Duquesne Light

|-

|Clarion and Jefferson Railroad

|

|

|1904

|1904

|Pittsburgh, Summerville and Clarion Railroad

|-

|Clarion River Railway

|

|

|1889

|1948

|N/A

|-

|Clarion and Summerville Railroad

|

|

|1900

|1901

|Clarion, Summerville and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Clarion, Summerville and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|

|1901

|1903

|

|-

|Clearfield and Jefferson Railway

|

|PRR

|1885

|1889

|Bell's Gap Railroad

|-

|Clearfield and Mahoning Railway

|

|B&O

|1892

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines

|-

|Clearfield Southern Railroad

|

|NYC

|1898

|1905

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|-

|Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad

|

|NYC

|1854

|1868

|Lake Shore Railway

|-

|Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|PRR

|1850

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Coal Glen Railroad

|

|

|1889

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Colebrook Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1881

|1886

|Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad

|-

|Colebrookdale Railroad

|

|RDG

|1865

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Columbia Bank

|

|PRR

|1852

|1864

|Columbia Bridge Company

|-

|Columbia Bank and Bridge Company

|

|PRR

|1837

|1852

|Columbia Bank

|-

|Columbia Bridge Company

|

|PRR

|1864

|1871

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Columbia Bridge Company

|

|PRR

|1835<!--tracks on bridge authorized by legislature in 1835-->

|1837

|Columbia Bank and Bridge Company

|-

|Columbia and Maryland Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1864

|Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad

|-

|Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad

|

|PRR

|1864

|1890

|Columbia and Port Deposit Railway

|-

|Columbia and Port Deposit Railway

|

|PRR

|1890

|1916

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Columbus and Erie Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1905

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad

|CBL

|

|1923

|

|Lehigh Valley Rail Management

|-

|Conewango Valley Railroad

|

|NYC

|1870

|1870

|Dunkirk, Warren and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Confluence and Oakland Railroad

|

|B&O

|1890

|1941<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Confluence and State Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1889

|1890

|Confluence and Oakland Railroad

|-

|Connecting Railway

|

|PRR

|1863

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Connection Railroad

|

|NYC

|1870

|1871

|Junction Railroad

|-

|Connellsville Central Railroad

|

|MGA

|1902

|1905

|Connellsville and Monongahela Railway

|-

|Connellsville and Monongahela Railway

|

|MGA

|1905

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A<!--?-->

|-

|Connellsville and State Line Railway

|

|WM

|1910

|1917

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Connequenessing Valley Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1881

|1882

|West Penn and Shenango Connecting Railroad

|-

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|CR

|

|1976

|1999

|CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway

|-

|Continental Coal Company

|

|DL&W

|1860

|1865

|Keyser Valley Railroad

|-

|Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim Railway

|

|NYC

|1873

|1892

|Fall Brook Railway

|-

|Cornwall Railroad

|CWL

|RDG

|1870

|1968<!--?-->

|Reading Company

|-

|Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad

|C&L

|PRR

|1882

|1918

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Cornwall and Mount Hope Railroad

|

|RDG

|1883

|1886

|Cornwall Railroad

|-

|Corry and State Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1879

|1879

|Buffalo, Chautauqua Lake and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Coudersport and Pine Creek Railroad

|

|

|1889

|1895

|Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad

|-

|Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad

|CPA

|

|1882

|1970

|N/A

|Owned by Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad

|-

|Coudersport and Wellsboro Railroad

|

|B&O

|1892

|1894

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Cowanesque Valley Railroad

|

|NYC

|1869

|1874

|Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim Railway

|-

|Crane Railroad

|

|LNE

|1905

|1914

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|-

|Cresson Railroad

|

|PRR

|1891

|1891

|Cambria and Clearfield Railroad

|-

|Cresson and Clearfield County and New York Short Route Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1894

|Cresson and Irvona Railroad

|-

|Cresson and Irvona Railroad

|

|PRR

|1894

|1903

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Cross Cut Railroad

|

|PRR

|1864

|1867

|Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Cross Fork Railroad

|

|B&O

|1893

|1893

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Cumberland Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1831

|1919

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Cumberland Valley and Waynesboro Railroad

|

|PRR

|1901

|1906

|Cumberland Valley Railroad

|-

|Curwensville and Bower Railroad

|

|NYC

|1903

|1905

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|-

|Dahoga and Highland Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Dallastown Railroad

|

|

|1898

|1902

|Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad

|

|PRR

|1867

|1878

|Sunbury, Hazleton and Wilkesbarre Railway

|-

|Danville and Pottsville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1826

|1851

|Philadelphia and Sunbury Railroad

|-

|Darlington Cannel Coal Railroad

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1852

|1855

|Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad, Pittsburgh, Marion and Chicago Railway

|-

|Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company

|

|RDG

|1838<!--authorized to construct a railroad on April 1838-->

|1859

|Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Dawson, Broadford and Mount Pleasant Railroad

|

|PLE

|1881

|1882

|Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad

|-

|Delaware and Chester County Railroad

|

|B&O

|1867

|1869

|Wilmington and Western Railroad

|-

|Delaware and Cobb's Gap Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1849

|1853

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Delaware and Hudson Company

|

|D&H

|1899

|1930

|Delaware and Hudson Railroad

|-

|Delaware and Hudson Railroad

|D&H

|D&H

|1930

|1968

|Delaware and Hudson Railway

|-

|Delaware and Hudson Canal Company

|

|D&H

|1826<!--this is when the state authorized it to construct a railroad-->

|1899

|Delaware and Hudson Company

|-

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|DL&W, DLW

|DL&W

|1853

|1960

|Erie–Lackawanna Railroad

|-

|Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|LV

|1846

|1853

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Delaware River Railroad and Bridge Company

|

|PRR

|1896

|1954

|Penndel Company

|-

|Delaware River and Lancaster Railroad

|

|

|1868

|1893

|N/A

|-

|Delaware River and Union Railroad

|DR&U

|

|1902

|1941<!--?-->

|N/A

|Owned by Sunoco

|-

|Delaware and Slatington Railroad

|

|LNE

|1881

|1882

|Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England Railroad

|-

|Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad

|

|LV

|1890

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Delaware Valley Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1903

|Delaware Valley Railway

|-

|Delaware Valley Railway

|DV

|

|1994

|1999

|Brandywine Valley Railroad

|-

|Delaware Valley Railway

|

|

|1904

|1937<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Delaware Valley Railway

|

|

|<!--the ICC didn't know-->

|1899

|Delaware Valley, Hudson and Lehigh Railroad

|-

|Delaware Valley, Hudson and Lehigh Railroad

|

|

|1898

|1899

|Delaware Valley Railroad

|-

|Delaware Western Railroad

|

|B&O

|1877

|1883

|Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad

|-

|Dent's Run Railroad

|

|

|1903

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|-

|Diamond Valley Railroad

|

|

|1886

|1891

|Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad

|Founder David Gring relocated and began a new railroad when the DVRR folded.

|-

|Dillsburg and Mechanicsburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1871

|1906

|Cumberland Valley Railroad

|-

|Doe Run and White Clay Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1868

|1870

|Pennsylvania and Delaware Railroad

|-

|Donora Southern Railroad

|DSO

|

|1902

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad

|

|PRR

|1888

|1903

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|NYC

|1873

|1914

|New York Central Railroad

|-

|Dunkirk, Warren and Pittsburgh Railway

|

|NYC

|1870

|1873

|Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Eagles Mere Railroad

|

|

|1891

|1922

|Eagles Mere Railway

|-

|Eagles Mere Railway

|

|

|1922

|1927

|N/A

|-

|East Berlin Railroad

|EB

|

|1914

|1939

|N/A

|-

|East Berlin Railway

|

|

|1903

|1914

|East Berlin Railroad

|-

|East Brandywine Railroad

|

|PRR

|1854

|1860

|East Brandywine and Waynesburg Railroad

|-

|East Brandywine and Waynesburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1888

|Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad

|-

|East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company

|

|

|1856

|1956

|N/A

|Continued as a tourist railroad

|-

|East Mahanoy Railroad

|

|RDG

|1854

|1951

|Reading Company

|-

|East Mahanoy and Hazleton Railroad

|EMHR

|

|1992

|1996

|Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad

|-

|East Penn Railways

|EPRY

|

|1995

|2007

|East Penn Railroad

|-

|East Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|RDG

|1857

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|East Stroudsburg and Matamoras Railroad

|

|

|<!--the ICC didn't know-->

|1899

|Delaware Valley, Hudson and Lehigh Railroad

|-

|Eastern Railroad

|

|

|1901

|1925<!--??-->

|Monongahela Connecting Railroad

|-

|Easton and Northern Railroad

|

|LV

|1889

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Easton and Western Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1914

|1944

|Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

|-

|Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad

|

|PRR

|1893

|1903

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Ebensburg and Cresson Railroad

|

|PRR

|1859

|1891

|Cresson Railroad

|-

|Eddystone and Delaware River Railroad

|

|PRR

|1899

|1918

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Elk and Highland Railroad

|

|

|1898

|1913

|Elk and Highland Railway

|-

|Elk and Highland Railway

|

|

|1913

|1913

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|-

|Elk Lick Coal, Lumber and Iron Company

|

|B&O

|1868

|1871

|Salisbury and Baltimore Railroad and Coal Company

|-

|Ellwood Connecting Railroad

|

|PLE

|1892

|1911

|Beaver and Ellwood Railroad

|-

|Ellwood Short Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1890

|1912

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Ellwood Southern Railroad

|

|PLE

|1899

|1899

|Beaver and Ellwood Railroad

|-

|Elmira and Williamsport Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1969

|Penndel Company

|-

|Emlenton and Shippenville Railroad<!--was the Clarion Extension a separate company?-->

|

|B&O

|1875

|1877

|Emlenton, Shippenville and Clarion Railway

|-

|Emlenton, Shippenville and Clarion Railway

|

|B&O

|1877

|1881

|Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railway

|-

|Emporium and Mount Jewett Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1895

|1897

|Mount Jewett, Clermont and Northern Railroad

|-

|Emporium and Rich Valley Railroad

|

|

|1891

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Engelside Railroad

|

|PRR

|1892

|1902

|Connecting Railway

|-

|Enterprise Railroad

|

|RDG

|1865

|1870

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Railroad

|-

|Erie Railroad

|ERIE

|ERIE

|1895

|1960

|Erie–Lackawanna Railroad

|-

|Erie Railway

|

|ERIE

|1861

|1878

|New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad

|-

|Erie–Lackawanna Railroad

|EL

|

|1960

|1968

|Erie Lackawanna Railway

|-

|Erie Lackawanna Railway

|EL

|

|1968

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Erie and North East Railroad

|

|NYC, PRR

|1842

|1867

|Buffalo and Erie Railroad, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Erie and Ohio Rail Road

|

|NYC

|1849

|1854

|Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad

|Built by the Franklin Canal Company

|-

|Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|PRR

|1858

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Erie, Shenango and Pittsburgh Railway

|

|B&LE

|1886

|1888

|Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Erie and State Line Railroad

|

|NKP

|1887

|1887

|New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

|-

|Erie Terminal Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1891

|1893

|Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1882

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Eriton Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1906

|1933

|N/A

|-

|Etna and Montrose Railroad

|

|

|1896

|1961<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Fair Hill Railroad

|

|PRR

|1892

|1902

|Connecting Railway

|-

|Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad

|

|B&O

|1893<!--was Pittsburgh until 1915-->

|1989

|CSX Transportation

|-

|Fall Brook Railway

|

|NYC

|1892

|1909

|Geneva, Corning and Southern Railroad

|-

|Falls Creek Railroad

|

|

|1889

|1897

|Reynoldsville and Falls Creek Railroad

|-

|Farmers' Railroad

|

|PRR

|1862

|1868

|Warren and Franklin Railway

|-

|Fayette County Railroad

|

|B&O

|1857

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Forest City and State Line Railroad

|

|O&W

|1889

|1889

|Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton Railway

|-

|Foxburg, Kane and Bradford Railroad

|

|B&O

|1879

|1881

|Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railway

|-

|Foxburg, St. Petersburg and Clarion Railroad

|

|B&O

|1877

|1881

|Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railway

|-

|Frankford Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1890

|1891

|Kensington and Tacony Railroad

|-

|Frankford and Holmesburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1863

|1890

|Bustleton Railroad

|-

|Franklin Railroad

|

|PRR

|1859

|1865

|Cumberland Valley Railroad

|-

|Franklin Railroad

|

|PRR

|1832

|1850

|Chambersburg, Greencastle and Hagerstown Railroad

|-

|Franklin Canal Company

|

|NYC

|1849<!--authorized to construct a railroad-->

|1854

|Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad

|-

|Franklin and Clearfield Railroad

|

|NYC

|1902

|1909

|Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad

|-

|Gaffney and James City Railroad

|

|B&O

|1913

|1940<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Gaines and State Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1875

|1876

|Geneva, Hornellsville and Pine Creek Railway

|-

|Galeton and Eastern Railroad

|

|B&O

|1898

|1901

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Galeton, South Branch and Germania Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Garfield and Cherry Grove Railroad

|

|

|1882

|1884

|Cherry Grove Railroad

|-

|Geneva, Corning and Southern Railroad

|

|NYC

|1909

|1914

|New York Central Railroad

|-

|Geneva, Hornellsville and Pine Creek Railway

|

|PRR

|1876

|1879

|Lake Ontario Southern Railway

|-

|Gettysburg Railroad (1976-1996)

|GETY

|

|1976

|1996

|Gettysburg Railway

|-

|Gettysburg Railroad

|

|WM

|1853

|1870

|Susquehanna, Gettysburg and Potomac Railway

|-

|Gettysburg Railway

|GBRY

|

|1996

|2001

|Gettysburg and Northern Railroad

|-

|Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad

|

|RDG

|1882

|1891

|Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway

|-

|Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway

|

|RDG

|1891

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Girardville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1892

|1893

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|-

|Glen Hazel and Shawmut Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|1893

|Ketner, St. Mary's and Shawmut Railroad

|-

|Glenwood Railroad

|

|B&O

|1896

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Good Spring Railroad

|

|RDG

|1863

|1871

|Lebanon and Tremont Railroad

|-

|Grassy Island Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1887

|1936<!--?-->

|Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad

|-

|Grays Run Railway

|

|LV

|1903

|1903

|Susquehanna and New York Railroad

|-

|Greenlick Railway

|

|

|1892

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|Greenlick Narrow Gauge Railway

|

|

|1874

|1892

|Greenlick Railway

|-

|Hanover Branch Railroad

|

|WM

|1849

|1874

|Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad

|-

|Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad

|

|WM

|1874

|1886

|Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway

|-

|Hanover Junction and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|RDG

|1876

|1881

|Reading, Marietta and Hanover Railroad

|-

|Hanover and Newport Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1894

|1909

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Hanover and York Railroad

|

|PRR

|1873

|1897

|York, Hanover and Frederick Railroad

|-

|Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mountjoy and Lancaster Railroad

|

|PRR

|1835

|1917

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Harrisburg and Potomac Railroad

|

|RDG

|1871

|1890

|Harrisburg and Shippensburg Railroad

|-

|Harrisburg and Shippensburg Railroad

|

|RDG

|1890

|1890

|Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Harrisburg Terminal Railroad

|

|RDG

|1889

|1890

|Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Hazleton Railroad

|

|LV

|1865

|1868

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Hazleton Coal Company

|

|LV

|1836<!--it was authorized to construct a railroad from the beginning-->

|1865

|Hazleton Railroad

|-

|Hempfield Railroad

|

|B&O

|1850

|1871

|Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad

|-

|Hickory Valley Railroad

|

|

|1887

|1938

|N/A

|-

|Hicks Run Railroad

|

|

|1905

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Hollidaysburg, Bedford and Cumberland Railroad

|

|PRR

|1911

|1914

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Hooverhurst and South Western Railroad

|

|NYC

|1902

|1913

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|-

|Howard Coal and Iron Company

|

|D&H

|1864

|1867

|Union Coal Company

|-

|Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad

|

|RDG

|1891

|1910

|Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway

|-

|Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company

|H&BT

|

|1852

|1954

|Everett Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Indian Creek Valley Railway

|

|B&O

|1902

|1972<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Ironton Railroad

|IRN

|LV/ RDG

|1859

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|ISS Rail, Inc.

|ISSR

|

|1993

|<!--not sure when they changed their name-->

|New Castle Industrial Railroad

|-

|Jackson Coal Railroad

|

|NYC

|1883

|1909

|Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad

|-

|Jamestown and Franklin Railroad

|

|NYC

|1862

|1909

|Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad

|-

|Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad

|

|NYC

|1909

|1915

|New York Central Railroad

|-

|Jeddo and Carbon County Railroad

|

|LV

|1854

|1856

|Lehigh and Luzerne Railroad

|-

|Jefferson Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1851

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Jefferson and Allegheny Railway

|

|B&O

|1894

|1898

|Allegheny and Western Railway

|-

|Jersey Shore and Antes Fort Railroad

|

|

|1904

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway

|

|NYC

|1870

|1884

|Pine Creek Railway

|-

|Johnsonburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1887

|1928

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Johnsonburgh Railroad

|

|B&O

|1887

|1888

|Johnsonburgh and Bradford Railroad

|-

|Johnsonburgh and Bradford Railroad

|

|B&O

|1888

|1907

|Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Johnsonburg, Kane, Warren and Irvine Railroad

|JKWI

|

|1982

|1985

|Allegheny Railroad

|-

|Johnstown and Stony Creek Railroad

|J&SC, JSC

|

|1888

|1983<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Jones Lake Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1887

|1894

|Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad

|-

|Junction Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1908

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Junction Railroad

|

|NYC

|1870

|1871

|Jamestown and Franklin Railroad

|-

|Juniata and Southern Railroad

|

|

|1913

|1917

|N/A

|-

|Kane Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1931<!--?-->

|N/A

|Operated by Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|-

|Kane and Elk Railroad

|

|

|1895

|1946<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Karns City and Butler Railroad

|

|B&O

|1873

|1881

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Keating and Smethport Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1931<!--?-->

|N/A

|Operated by Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|-

|Kendall and Eldred Railroad

|

|

|1877

|1893

|N/A

|Operated by Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Kensington and Tacony Railroad

|

|PRR

|1884

|1902

|Connecting Railway

|-

|Kersey Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1900

|1947<!--??-->

|N/A

|-

|Ketner, Elbon and Shawmut Railroad

|

|

|1892

|1893

|Ketner, St. Mary's and Shawmut Railroad

|-

|Ketner and Kay Fork Railway

|

|

|1901

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Ketner, St. Mary's and Shawmut Railroad

|

|

|1893

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Keyser Valley Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1865

|1865

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Kinzua Railroad

|

|PRR

|1911

|1911

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Kinzua Railway

|

|PRR

|1881

|1911

|Kinzua Railroad

|-

|Kinzua Hemlock Railroad

|

|

|1890

|1936<!--?-->

|N/A

|Operated by Valley Railroad

|-

|Kinzua and Tiona Railroad

|

|

|1897

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Kinzua Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1889

|1911

|Kinzua Railroad

|-

|Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad

|

|

|1892

|1940

|N/A

|-

|Kittanning Run Railroad

|

|

|1905

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Knox and Kane Railroad

|KKRR

|

|1982

|2006

|N/A

|-

|Kushequa Railroad

|

|B&O

|1898

|1931<!--?-->

|Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|-

|Lackawanna Railway

|LRWY

|

|1991

|1993

|Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad

|-

|Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1852

|1873

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Lackawanna and Montrose Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1889

|1928

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Lackawanna Valley Railroad

|LVAL

|

|1985

|1993

|Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad

|-

|Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1851

|1853

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad

|L&WV

|DL&W

|1901

|1960<!--?-->

|Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway

|Electric until 1953

|-

|Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway

|L&WV, LWV

|DL&W

|1959

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Lackawaxen and Stourbridge Railroad

|LASB

|

|1976

|1989

|Stourbridge Railroad

|-

|Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad

|LEF

|

|1913

|1992

|N/A

|-

|Lake Ontario Southern Railway

|

|PRR

|1879

|1882

|Sodus Bay and Southern Railway (NY)

|Sold at foreclosure; no property in Pennsylvania

|-

|Lake Shore Railway

|

|NYC

|1868

|1869

|Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway

|-

|Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway

|

|NYC

|1869

|1914

|New York Central Railroad

|-

|Lancaster and Northern Railroad

|

|

|1906

|<!--no idea-->

|

|Never operated revenue service.

|-

|Lancaster Northern Railway

|LANO

|

|1995

|1997

|Penn Eastern Rail Lines

|-

|Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad

|

|

|1890

|1912

|Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway

|-

|Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway

|

|

|1912

|1918

|N/A

|-

|Lancaster and Quarryville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1904

|1915

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad

|

|PRR

|1871

|1904

|Lancaster and Quarryville Railroad<!--was a part of it split out in 1894?-->

|-

|Latrobe and Ligonier Railroad

|

|

|1853

|1871

|Ligonier Valley Railroad

|-

|Lawrence Railroad

|

|PRR

|1865

|1887

|Youngstown, Lawrence and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Lawrence Railroad and Transportation Company

|

|PRR

|1864

|1865

|Lawrence Railroad

|-

|Lebanon Belt Railway

|

|PRR

|1889

|1891

|Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad

|-

|Lebanon and Tremont Railroad

|

|RDG

|1871

|1871

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Lebanon Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1850

|1858

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Leetonia Railway

|

|

|1899

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Lehigh and Delaware Railroad

|

|LNE

|1904

|1904

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|-

|Lehigh and Delaware Gap Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1857

|1867

|Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

|-

|Lehigh and Hudson River Railway

|L&HR, LHR

|

|1889<!--operated the South Easton and Phillipsburg Railroad, which was incorporated in 1889 and opened in 1890-->

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Lehigh and Lackawanna Railroad

|

|LNE

|1864

|1904

|Lehigh and Delaware Railroad

|-

|Lehigh Luzerne Railroad

|

|LV

|1857

|1868

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Lehigh and Luzerne Railroad

|

|LV

|1856

|1857

|Lehigh Luzerne Railroad

|-

|Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad

|

|LV

|1862

|1866

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|LNE

|LNE

|1895

|1961

|Lehigh and New England Railway

|-

|Lehigh and New England Railway

|LNE

|CNJ

|1961

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

|

|CNJ

|1837

|1978<!--? not 1976 - Conrail leased it at first-->

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|LV

|LV

|1853

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Lewisburg and Buffalo Valley Railroad

|

|

|1897

|1906

|N/A

|-

|Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1853

|1879

|Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad

|-

|Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad

|

|PRR

|1880

|1913

|Lewisburg and Tyrone Railway

|-

|Lewisburg and Tyrone Railway

|

|PRR

|1913

|1915

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Liggett's Gap Railroad

|

|DL&W

|1832

|1851

|Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Ligonier Valley Railroad

|LGV

|

|1871

|1952

|N/A

|-

|Little Saw Mill Run Railroad

|

|P&WV

|1850

|1897

|West Side Belt Railroad

|-

|Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company

|

|RDG

|1829

|1952

|Reading Company

|-

|Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|RDG

|1835

|1849

|Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad

|-

|Littlestown Railroad

|

|PRR

|1854

|1892

|Hanover and York Railroad

|-

|Locust Gap Improvement Company

|

|RDG

|1854

|1864

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Lorberry Creek Railroad

|

|RDG

|1843

|1871

|Lebanon and Tremont Railroad

|-

|Loyalhanna and Youghiogheny Railroad

|

|NYC

|1894

|1895

|Pittsburgh and Eastern Railroad

|-

|Loyalsock Railroad

|

|LV

|1884

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Lykens Valley Railroad and Coal Company

|

|PRR

|1830

|1956

|Penndel Company

|-

|Mahanoy and Broad Mountain Railroad

|

|RDG

|1860

|1870

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Railroad

|-

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Improvement Company<!--was this actually a railroad company?-->

|

|RDG

|1850

|1856

|Trevorton Coal and Railroad Company

|-

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Railroad

|

|RDG

|1870

|1871

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Mahanoy Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1868

|1870

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Railroad

|-

|Mahoning and Shenango Valley Railway<!--or Mahoning and Shenango Valley Company??-->

|

|NYC

|1963

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Mahoning State Line Railroad

|

|PLE

|1894

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation

|-

|Mahoning Valley Railroad

|

|B&O

|1890

|1967<!--?-->

|Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Main Line of Public Works

|

|PRR

|1828

|1857

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Manns Choice and Hyndman Railroad

|

|PRR

|1894

|1894

|Pennsylvania Midland Railroad

|-

|Manufacturers Railroad

|

|RDG

|1870

|1873

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Manufacturers Terminal Railway

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Mapleton and Rocky Ridge Railway<!--or Railroad?-->

|

|

|1891

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Marginal Railroad

|

|

|1880<!--not incorporated - is this when it was built?-->

|1890

|Pennsylvania Company

|-

|Martins Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1885

|1896

|Belvidere Delaware Railroad

|-

|Maryland Central Railway

|

|

|1888

|1891

|Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad

|-

|Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad

|M&PA, MPA

|

|1901

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the York Railway

|-

|Masontown and New Salem Railroad

|

|MGA

|1899

|1905

|Connellsville and Monongahela Railway

|-

|Mauch Chunk Railroad

|

|

|1826<!--?-->

|1872<!--?-->

|Continued as a tourist railroad

|-

|McKean and Buffalo Railroad

|

|PRR

|1874

|1911

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|McKees Rocks Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1899

|Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad

|-

|McKeesport and Belle Vernon Railroad

|

|PLE

|1886

|1890

|Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad

|-

|McKeesport and Bessemer Railroad

|

|PRR

|1888

|1894

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|-

|McKeesport Terminal Railroad

|

|

|1896

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|McLaughlin Line Railroad

|MCLR

|

|1985

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|McLaughlin's and Saw Mill Run Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1881

|1881

|Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railway

|-

|Mead Run Railroad

|

|

|1897

|1931<!--?-->

|N/A

|Operated by Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|-

|Meadow Lands and Zediker Railroad

|

|PRR

|1903

|1907

|Chartiers Railway

|-

|Meadville Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1857

|1858

|Atlantic and Great Western Railroad

|-

|Meadville Railway

|

|B&LE

|1880

|1884

|Meadville and Linesville Railway

|-

|Meadville, Conneaut Lake and Linesville Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1891

|1948

|Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Meadville and Linesville Railway

|

|B&LE

|1884

|1891

|Meadville, Conneaut Lake and Linesville Railroad

|-

|Medix Run Railroad

|

|B&O

|1886

|1905

|Susquehanna and Southern Railroad

|-

|Mercer Valley Railroad

|

|

|1900

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Mercersburg Railway

|MERW

|

|1978

|1980

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Middle Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1865

|1870

|Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad

|-

|Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad

|

|RDG

|1888

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Midland Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|

|1910

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Midland Terminal Company

|MDLR

|

|1983

|2003

|Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad

|-

|Midway and Oakdale Railway

|

|PRR

|1900

|1909

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

|-

|Mifflin and Centre County Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1896

|Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad

|-

|Mill Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1865

|1865

|Reno, Oil Creek and Pithole Railway

|-

|Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Company

|

|RDG

|1828

|1950

|Reading Company

|-

|Mill Creek Valley Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1899

|1899

|Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

|-

|Millersburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1899

|1903

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Millville and North Mountain Railroad

|

|PRR

|1886

|1887

|Wilkesbarre and Western Railway

|-

|Milton and North Mountain Railroad

|

|PRR

|1885

|1887

|Wilkesbarre and Western Railway

|-

|Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad

|

|RDG

|1829

|1951

|Reading Company

|-

|Mineral Railroad and Mining Company

|

|

|1865

|

|

|-

|Miramar Iron Company

|

|RDG

|1870

|1871

|Harrisburg and Potomac Railroad

|-

|Mocanaqua and Eastern Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Monessen Southwestern Railway

|

|

|1912

|<!--no idea, but it lasted for a while-->

|

|-

|Monongahela Railroad

|

|MGA

|1900

|1915

|Monongahela Railway

|-

|Monongahela Railway

|MGA

|MGA

|1915

|1993

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Monongahela Connecting Railroad

|MGAC, MCRR

|

|1885

|2002

|Allegheny Valley Railroad<!--from 2002, or did Almono LP actually operate?-->

|-

|Monongahela and Ohio Railroad

|

|MGA

|1912

|1933

|Monongahela Railway

|-

|Monongahela River and Streets Run Railroad

|

|PRR

|1892

|1894

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|-

|Monongahela Southern Railroad

|

|

|1897

|1937

|Union Railroad

|-

|Monongahela Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1867

|1870

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|-

|Monongahela and Washington Railroad

|

|PRR

|1899

|1904

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Mont Alto Railroad

|

|PRR

|1871

|1901

|Cumberland Valley and Waynesboro Railroad

|-

|Montour Railroad

|M, MTR

|MTR

|1877

|1983

|N/A

|-

|Montrose Railroad

|

|LV

|1905

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Montrose Railway

|

|LV

|1869

|1905

|Montrose Railroad

|-

|Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1887

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Morgantown and Wheeling Railway

|M&W

|MGA

|1917<!--?-->

|1923

|Scotts Run Railway

|-

|Moshannon Railroad

|

|PRR

|1863

|1881

|Bald Eagle Valley Railroad

|-

|Moshannon and Clearfield Railroad

|

|PRR

|1880

|1884

|Tyrone and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Mount Carmel Railroad

|

|RDG

|1907

|1952

|N/A

|-

|Mount Carmel and Natalie Railroad

|

|RDG

|1891

|1906

|Mount Carmel Railroad

|-

|Mount Carbon Railroad

|

|RDG

|1829

|1872

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Mount Carbon and Port Carbon Railroad

|

|RDG

|1842

|1949

|Reading Company

|-

|Mount Eagle and Tremont Railroad

|

|RDG

|1853

|1862

|Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad

|-

|Mount Jewett, Clermont and Northern Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1897

|1899

|Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

|-

|Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|

|B&O

|1889

|1942<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Mount Jewett and Smethport Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1892

|1897

|Mount Jewett, Clermont and Northern Railroad

|-

|Mount Penn Gravity Railroad

|

|

|1889

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Mount Pleasant and Broad Ford Railroad

|

|B&O

|1870

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Mount Pleasant and Latrobe Railroad

|

|

|1881

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Mountain Laurel Railroad

|MNL

|

|1991

|1996

|Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad

|-

|Muncy Creek Railway

|

|

|1864

|1882

|Williamsport and North Branch Railroad

|-

|Nanticoke Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1860

|1867

|Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

|-

|Nazareth and Lehigh Railway

|

|DL&W

|1899

|1899

|Bangor and Portland Railway

|-

|Nescopec Railroad

|

|PRR

|1886

|1900

|Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

|-

|Nesquehoning Valley Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1861

|1963

|Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

|-

|New Berlin and Winfield Railroad

|

|

|1904

|1916

|N/A

|-

|New Brighton and New Castle Railroad

|

|PRR

|1881

|1887

|Youngstown, Lawrence and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|New Castle and Beaver Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1862

|1906

|Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway

|-

|New Castle and Butler Railroad

|

|

|1881

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|New Castle and Darlington Railroad

|

|PRR

|1856

|1857

|Pittsburgh, New Castle and Cleveland Railroad

|-

|New Castle and Franklin Railroad

|

|PRR

|1864

|1881

|New Castle and Oil City Railroad

|-

|New Castle and Oil City Railroad

|

|PRR

|1881

|1882

|Oil City and Chicago Railroad

|-

|New Castle, Plain Grove and Butler Railroad

|

|

|1882

|1882

|Oil City and Chicago Railroad

|-

|New Castle Northern Railway

|

|ERIE

|1883

|1887

|New Castle and Shenango Valley Railroad

|-

|New Castle and Shenango Valley Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1887

|1900

|Sharon Railway

|-

|New Haven and Dunbar Railroad

|

|

|1892

|1955<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|New Park and Fawn Grove Railroad

|

|

|1905

|1935

|N/A

|Operated by Stewartstown Railroad

|-

|New York Central Railroad

|NYC

|NYC

|1914

|1968

|Penn Central Transportation Company

|-

|New York Central and Hudson River Railroad

|

|NYC

|1890<!--leased the Beech Creek Railroad - but that didn't connect to the rest of the NYC&HR yet!-->

|1914

|New York Central Railroad

|-

|New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

|NKP

|NKP

|1887

|1964

|Norfolk and Western Railway

|-

|New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

|

|NKP

|1881

|1887

|Erie and State Line Railroad

|-

|New York and Erie Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1841<!--authorized to enter Pennsylvania-->

|1861

|Erie Railway

|-

|New York, Lackawanna and Western Railway

|

|DL&W

|1880

|1945<!--?-->

|Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

|-

|New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1878

|1895

|Erie Railroad

|-

|New York, Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad Company

|

|ERIE

|1881

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|New York and North Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|B&O

|1883

|1898

|Galeton and Eastern Railroad

|-

|New York, Ontario and Western Railway

|O&W, OW

|O&W

|1890<!--leased the Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton Railway-->

|1957

|N/A

|-

|New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|

|1896

|1902

|New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|

|

|1904

|1935<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1880

|1896

|Nypano Railroad

|-

|New York and Pittsburgh Air Line Railroad

|

|

|1906

|1907

|Philipsburg Railroad

|-

|New York and Pittsburg Central Railroad

|

|

|1903<!--?-->

|1906<!--?-->

|N/A

|Leased the Altoona and Philipsburg Connecting Railroad

|-

|New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1881

|1885

|Wampum and State Line Railway

|-

|New York Short Line Railroad

|

|RDG

|1903

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad

|S&W, NYSW

|ERIE

|1881

|1958<!--trackage rights Unionville-Middletown-Riverside Junction (Scranton?) ended-->

|N/A

|-

|Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad

|

|

|1890

|1920<!--??-->

|Susquehanna River and Western Railroad

|-

|Nicholson Run and Pine Swamp Railroad and Coal Company

|

|PRR

|1853

|1856

|New Castle and Darlington Railroad

|-

|Nittany Valley Railroad

|

|

|1887

|1914

|N/A

|-

|Nittany Valley and Southwestern Railroad

|

|

|1882

|1882

|Buffalo Run, Bellefonte and Bald Eagle Railroad

|-

|Norfolk and Western Railway

|N&W, NW

|

|1964

|1998

|Norfolk Southern Railway

|-

|Norristown and Allentown Railroad

|

|RDG

|1854

|1865

|Perkiomen Railroad

|-

|Norristown and Freemansburg Railroad

|

|RDG

|1852

|1854

|Norristown and Allentown Railroad

|-

|Norristown Junction Railroad

|

|RDG

|1879

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Norristown and Main Line Connecting Railroad

|

|RDG

|1901

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Norristown and Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1835

|1850

|Chester Valley Railroad

|-

|North Bend and Kettle Creek Railroad

|

|

|1893

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|North Fayette Railroad

|

|MTR

|1879

|1879

|Montour Railroad

|-

|North Lebanon Railroad

|

|RDG

|1850

|1870

|Cornwall Railroad

|-

|North Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|RDG

|1853

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|North Shore Railroad

|

|

|1908<!--or is this when it merged with the Ohio River Junction?-->

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|North Shore Terminal Railroad

|

|

|1898

|1899

|Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad

|-

|North Star and Mifflin Railroad

|

|MTR

|1912

|1913

|Montour Railroad

|-

|North and West Branch Railroad

|

|PRR

|1871

|1881

|North and West Branch Railway

|-

|North and West Branch Railway

|

|PRR

|1881

|1900

|Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

|-

|Northampton Railroad

|

|LNE

|1901

|1903

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|-

|Northampton and Bath Railroad

|NB

|

|1902

|1979

|N/A

|-

|North East Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|RDG

|1870

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Northern Central Railway

|

|PRR

|1854

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Northern Coal and Iron Company

|

|D&H

|1864

|<!--no idea - this still existed in 1991, becoming a CP subsidiary!-->

|

|-

|Northern Liberties Railway

|

|

|1896

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad

|

|RDG

|1829

|1871

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Northern Railroad and Navigation Company

|

|

|1867

|1873

|Rochester, Nunda and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Northern Susquehanna Railroad

|

|B&O

|1900

|1901

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|North Western Railroad

|

|PRR

|1853

|1859

|Western Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|North Western Coal and Iron Company

|

|DL&W

|1856

|1856

|Buffalo Coal and Iron Company

|-

|Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway

|

|PRR

|1895

|1895

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Northumberland County Railway Company

|

|

|

|

|

|-

|Nypano Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1896

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Octoraro Railroad

|OCTR

|

|2003

|2004

|East Penn Railways

|-

|Octoraro Railway

|OCTR

|

|1977

|1994

|Delaware Valley Railway

|-

|Ohio and Baltimore Short Line Railway

|

|B&O

|1873

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Ohio Connecting Railway

|

|PRR

|1886

|1954

|Penndel Company

|-

|Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad

|OHPA

|

|2004

|2006

|Eastern States Railroad

|-

|Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad

|OHPA

|

|1995

|1996

|Central Columbiana and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|PRR

|1848

|1856

|Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad

|-

|Ohio River Junction Railroad

|

|

|1908

|1908

|North Shore Railroad

|-

|Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1881

|1886

|Erie, Shenango and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Oil City and Chicago Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1882

|Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad

|-

|Oil City and Ridgway Railroad

|

|PRR

|1870

|1881

|Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Oil Creek Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1868

|Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway

|-

|Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway

|

|PRR

|1868

|1875

|Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway

|-

|Oil Creek Junction Railroad

|

|NYC

|1870

|1871

|Junction Railroad

|-

|Oil Creek and Titusville Mining and Transportation Company

|

|PRR

|1865

|1866

|Union and Titusville Railroad

|-

|Olean, Bradford and Warren Railway

|

|PRR

|1877

|1911

|Bradford Railroad

|-

|Olean, Oswayo and Eastern Railroad

|

|

|1892

|1896

|New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Oleona Railroad

|

|

|1901

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Oleona and Germania Railroad

|

|

|1902

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton Railway

|

|O&W

|1889

|1957

|N/A

|-

|Orangeville and Lehigh Railroad

|

|PRR

|1892

|1893

|Central Pennsylvania and Western Railroad

|-

|Oswayo Valley Railroad

|

|

|1918<!--??-->

|1920

|New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Pan Handle Railway

|

|PRR

|1861

|1868

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway

|-

|Panther Creek Railroad

|

|LNE

|1913

|1913

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|-

|Panther Valley Railroad

|PVAL

|

|1983

|1990

|C&S Railroad

|-

|Parker and Karns City Railroad

|

|B&O

|1873

|1881

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Path Valley Railroad

|

|

|1893

|1900<!--??-->

|Perry Lumber Company

|-

|Peach Bottom Railroad

|

|

|1881

|1890

|Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad

|-

|Peach Bottom Railway

|

|

|1868

|1881

|Peach Bottom Railroad, York and Peach Bottom Railway

|-

|Pencoyd and Philadelphia Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1929

|N/A

|Owned by the American Bridge Company

|-

|Penn Central Transportation Company

|PC

|

|1968

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Penn Eastern Rail Lines

|PRL

|

|1997

|2007

|East Penn Railroad

|-

|Penn Jersey Rail Lines

|PJRL

|

|1997

|2002

|SMS Rail Service, Inc.

|-

|Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad

|

|LV

|1857

|1864

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Penndel Company

|

|PRR

|1954

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Pennsylvania Company

|

|PRR

|1871

|1918

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|PRR

|PRR

|1846

|1968

|Penn Central Transportation Company

|-

|Pennsylvania and Delaware Railroad

|

|PRR

|1870

|1873

|Pennsylvania and Delaware Railway

|-

|Pennsylvania and Delaware Railway

|

|PRR

|1873

|1879

|Pomeroy and State Line Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Midland Railroad

|

|PRR

|1894

|1902

|Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Midland Railway

|

|ERIE

|1881

|1881

|New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania, Monongahela and Southern Railroad

|

|PRR

|1902

|1915

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania and New Jersey Railroad

|

|PRR

|1894

|1896

|Delaware River Railroad and Bridge Company

|-

|Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company

|

|LV

|1865

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Northern Railroad

|

|

|1911

|1913

|Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad

|

|PRR

|1889

|1903

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad

|

|LNE

|1887

|1895

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1883

|1900

|Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England Railroad

|

|LNE

|1882

|1887

|Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Southern Railroad

|

|

|1910

|1913

|Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania and West Virginia Railroad

|

|PRR

|1889

|1893

|Bedford and Blair County Railroad

|-

|Pennsylvania Western and Ohio River Connecting Railway

|

|

|1901

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Pequea Railroad and Improvement Company

|

|RDG

|1849

|1851

|Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company

|-

|Perkiomen Railroad

|

|RDG

|1865

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Perry County Railroad

|

|

|1887

|1903

|Susquehanna River and Western Railroad

|-

|Perry Lumber Company Railroad

|

|

|1901

|1905

|

|-

|Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad

|

|PRR

|1853

|1916

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad

|

|PRR

|1834

|1857

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|

|PRR

|1902

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad

|PBNE

|

|1910

|2003

|Lehigh Valley Rail Management

|Owned by Bethlehem Steel

|-

|Philadelphia and Bustleton Railway

|

|PRR

|1892

|1893

|Philadelphia, Bustleton and Trenton Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia, Bustleton and Trenton Railroad

|

|PRR

|1893

|1902

|Connecting Railway

|-

|Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad

|

|PRR

|1872

|1885

|Philadelphia Midland Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1888

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Philadelphia, Delaware and Chester Central Railroad

|

|PRR

|1871

|1872

|Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Delaware County Railroad

|

|PRR

|1890

|1913

|Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Delaware County Railroad

|

|PRR

|1831

|1836

|Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia, Easton and Water Gap Railroad

|

|RDG

|1852

|1853

|North Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Erie Railroad

|

|PRR

|1861

|1907

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Frankford Railroad

|

|RDG

|1892

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Philadelphia, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Railroad

|

|PRR

|1883

|1902

|Connecting Railway

|-

|Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad

|

|RDG

|1831

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|RDG

|1890

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Philadelphia Midland Railroad

|

|PRR

|1885

|1890

|Philadelphia and Delaware County Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Montgomery County Railroad

|

|RDG

|1860

|1872

|Philadelphia and Newtown Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Newtown Railroad

|

|RDG

|1872

|1873

|Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Newtown Connecting Railroad

|

|RDG

|1892

|1892

|Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad

|

|RDG

|1873

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Philadelphia, Newtown Square and Chester Railroad

|

|B&O

|1886

|1886

|Schuylkill River East Side Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia, Norristown and Phoenixville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1883

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|NYC

|1893

|1895

|Pittsburgh and Eastern Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|

|RDG

|1833

|1896

|Philadelphia and Reading Railway

|-

|Philadelphia and Reading Railway

|P&R

|RDG

|1896

|1924

|Reading Company

|-

|Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad

|

|RDG

|1888

|1944

|Reading Company

|-

|Philadelphia and Sunbury Railroad

|

|PRR

|1851

|1858

|Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad

|-

|Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad

|

|PRR

|1832

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad

|

|PRR

|1836

|1902

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Philipsburg Railroad

|

|

|1907

|1909

|Philipsburg and Susquehanna Valley Railroad

|-

|Philipsburg Coal, Iron and Oil Company

|

|PRR

|1865

|1867

|Tyrone and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Philipsburg and Susquehanna Valley Railroad

|

|

|1909

|1910

|Pittsburgh and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Phoenixville, Pottstown and Reading Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1883

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|-

|Phoenixville and West Chester Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1883

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|-

|Pickering Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1869

|1948

|Reading Company

|-

|Pine Creek Railway

|

|NYC

|1884

|1909

|Geneva, Corning and Southern Railroad

|-

|Pine Grove and Lebanon Railroad

|

|RDG

|1868

|1871

|Lebanon and Tremont Railroad

|-

|Pine Run Railroad

|

|PRR

|1906

|1912

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|B&O

|1879

|1879

|Pittsburgh Southern Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh and Allegheny Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1899

|Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Allegheny River Railroad

|

|

|1898

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Pittsburgh and Beck's Run Railroad

|

|PLE

|1877

|1880

|Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1897

|1948

|Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railway

|

|B&O

|1881

|1883

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Butler and Shenango Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1889

|1890

|Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Carnegie Railroad

|

|P&WV

|1901

|1901

|Pittsburgh, Carnegie and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Carnegie and Western Railroad

|

|P&WV

|1901

|1904

|Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad

|

|

|1871

|1909

|N/A

|-

|Pittsburgh, Castle Shannon and Washington Railroad

|

|B&O

|1877

|1878

|Pittsburgh Southern Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railway

|PCY

|PLE/ PRR

|1881

|1996

|Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway

|

|B&O, PLE/ PRR

|1878

|1881

|New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway

|

|PRR

|1868

|1890

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

|

|PRR

|1917

|1956

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

|

|PRR

|1890

|1917

|Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Clarion and Franklin Railroad

|

|

|1912

|1913

|Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad

|-

|Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad

|

|B&O

|1882

|1915

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad

|

|B&O

|1837

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Pittsburgh East and West Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1881

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Eastern Railroad

|

|NYC

|1894

|1905

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad

|

|ERIE, PRR

|1846

|1857

|Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, Meadville Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad

|

|PRR

|1856

|1861

|Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway

|

|PRR

|1860

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad

|PIR

|

|1996

|2001

|Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Ebensburg and Eastern Railroad

|

|

|1897

|1903

|New York and Pittsburg Central Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh Junction Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1943<!--??-->

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburg, Kittanning and Warren Railroad

|

|PRR

|1837

|1852

|Allegheny Valley Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

|PLE

|PLE

|1875

|1992

|Three Rivers Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad

|PL&W, PLW

|PLE/ PRR

|1902

|1945

|Youngstown and Southern Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1896

|1902

|Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh Local Railroad

|

|B&O

|1880

|1881

|Pittsburgh Junction Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Mansfield Railroad

|

|P&WV

|1893

|1901

|Pittsburgh, Carnegie and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Marion and Chicago Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1886

|1896

|Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad

|

|PLE

|1881

|1965

|Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Moon Run Railroad

|

|MTR

|1891

|1913

|Montour Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, New Castle and Cleveland Railroad

|

|PRR

|1857

|1861

|New Castle and Beaver Valley Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake Erie Railroad<!--why were there two of these?-->

|

|B&O

|1877

|1881

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Northeastern Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Pittsburgh and Northeastern Terminal Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|1916

|Pittsburgh and Northern Terminal Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Northern Railroad

|

|

|1881

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Pittsburgh and Northern Terminal Railroad

|

|

|1916

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Pittsburgh and Northwestern Railroad

|

|B&O

|1875

|1877

|Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Ohio Valley Railway

|P&OV, POV

|

|1899

|1993

|Three Rivers Railway

|-

|Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad

|PS, PSR

|PS&N

|1909

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1899

|1947

|N/A

|-

|Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1888

|1897

|Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh Southern Railroad

|

|B&O

|1878

|1879

|Pittsburgh Southern Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh Southern Railway

|

|B&O

|1879

|1884

|Baltimore and Ohio Short Line Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and State Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1885

|1887

|Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

|-

|Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1849

|1867

|Pan Handle Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Summerville and Clarion Railroad

|

|

|1903

|1912

|Pittsburgh, Clarion and Franklin Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|

|1910

|1931

|N/A

|-

|Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway

|

|PRR

|1876

|1881

|Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|

|PRR

|1870

|1905

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore Railroad

|

|

|

|

|

|-

|Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad

|

|

|1967

|

|

|Still exists as a lessor of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway

|P&WV

|P&WV

|1916

|1967

|Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|

|B&O

|1902

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|

|B&O

|1879

|1887

|Pittsburgh and Western Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh and Western Railway

|

|B&O

|1887

|1902

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Pittsburgh, Westmoreland and Somerset Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1916

|N/A

|-

|Pittsburgh and Whitehall Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1888

|Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad

|

|PRR

|1887

|1906

|Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway

|-

|Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway

|

|PRR

|1906

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Pittsburg, Youngstown and Chicago Railroad

|

|B&O

|1880

|1882

|Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad

|-

|Plumville Railroad

|

|B&O

|1905

|1907

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|PL&W Railroad

|PLW

|

|1993

|1995

|Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Plymouth Railroad

|

|RDG

|1836

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre Road and Bridge Company

|

|D&H

|1859

|1873

|Northern Coal and Iron Company

|-

|Pocono Northeast Railway

|PNER

|

|1982

|1993<!--or should it be later, since it continued to own the lines?-->

|Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway

|-

|Pomeroy and Newark Railroad

|

|PRR

|1881

|1917

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|Pomeroy and State Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1880

|1881

|Pomeroy and Newark Railroad

|-

|Port Kennedy Railroad

|

|RDG

|1860

|1872

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Portland and Northern Railway

|

|

|1901

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Portsmouth and Lancaster Railroad

|

|PRR

|1832

|1835

|Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mountjoy and Lancaster Railroad

|-

|Potato Creek Railroad

|

|

|1907

|1927

|N/A

|-

|Pottsville and Mahanoy Railroad

|

|PRR

|1883

|1886

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|-

|Pottsville and New York Railroad

|

|LV

|1882

|1887

|Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Quakertown and Bethlehem Railroad

|

|

|1916

|1937<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Quakertown and Delaware River Railroad

|

|

|1911

|1916

|Quakertown and Bethlehem Railroad

|-

|Quakertown and Eastern Railroad

|

|

|1896

|1911

|Quakertown and Delaware River Railroad

|-

|Quemahoning Branch Railroad

|

|

|1901

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Railroad Ventures, Inc.

|

|

|1996

|2001

|Columbiana County Port Authority

|-

|Reading Company

|RDG

|RDG

|1924

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Reading Belt Railroad

|

|RDG

|1900

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Reading and Columbia Railroad

|

|RDG

|1859

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Reading and Lehigh Railroad

|

|RDG

|1875

|1879

|Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad

|-

|Reading and Lehigh Railroad

|

|RDG

|1856

|1857

|East Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Reading, Marietta and Hanover Railroad

|

|RDG

|1882

|1930

|N/A

|-

|Reading and Pottsville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1884

|1885

|Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

|-

|Red Bank Railroad

|RBKX<!--huh?-->

|

|1990

|1996

|Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad

|-

|Red Bank and Youngstown Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1882

|Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Redstone Central Railroad

|

|MGA

|1902

|<!--no idea-->

|N/A

|-

|Reno, Oil Creek and Pithole Railway

|

|PRR

|1865

|1867

|Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway

|-

|Reynoldsville and Falls Creek Railroad

|

|

|1883

|1934<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Ridgway and Clearfield Railroad

|

|PRR

|1882

|1911

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|River Front Railroad

|

|PRR

|1876

|1903

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Rochester, Beaver Falls and Western Railway

|

|PRR

|1889

|1890

|Pennsylvania Company

|-

|Rochester, Nunda and Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|

|1873

|1877

|Sold at foreclosure; no property in Pennsylvania

|-

|Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|B&O

|1881

|1885

|Pittsburgh and State Line Railroad

|-

|Rockwood and Bakersville Railway

|

|B&O

|1907

|1911

|Indian Creek Valley Railway

|-

|Rocky Ridge Railroad

|

|

|1907

|1913

|East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company

|-

|Rogers Railroad

|

|

|1902

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Rupert and Bloomsburg Railroad

|

|RDG

|1888

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Rural Valley Railroad

|

|B&O

|1900

|1925

|Allegheny and Western Railway

|-

|St. Clair Terminal Railroad

|

|

|1901

|1937

|Union Railroad

|-

|St. Marys and Western Railroad

|

|

|1904

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|St. Marys and Southwestern Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1893

|1897

|Buffalo, St. Marys and Southwestern Railroad

|-

|Salamanca, Bradford and Allegheny River Railroad

|

|PRR

|1880

|1881

|Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Salisbury Railroad

|

|B&O

|1875

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Salisbury and Baltimore Railroad and Coal Company

|

|B&O

|1871

|1875

|Salisbury Railroad

|-

|Scalp Level Railroad

|

|PRR

|1897

|1902

|South Fork Railroad

|-

|Schuylkill East Branch Navigation Company

|

|RDG

|1828<!--authorized to build a railroad-->

|1829

|Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company

|-

|Schuylkill Haven and Lehigh River Railroad

|

|RDG

|1862

|1863

|Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad

|-

|Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

|

|PRR

|1900

|1902

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad

|

|RDG

|1880

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad

|

|LV

|1886

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Schuylkill River East Side Railroad

|

|B&O

|1883

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|RDG

|1859

|1872

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Schuylkill Valley Navigation Company

|

|RDG

|1828<!--authorized to build a railroad then-->

|1829

|Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company

|-

|Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company

|

|RDG

|1829

|1950

|Reading Company

|-

|Scootac Railway

|

|

|1901

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Scotland and Mont Alto Railroad

|

|PRR

|1864

|1871

|Mont Alto Railroad

|-

|Scottdale Connecting Railroad

|

|

|1897

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Scotts Run Railway

|

|MGA

|1923

|1933

|Monongahela Railway

|-

|Scranton and Forest City Railroad

|

|O&W

|1886

|1889

|Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton Railway

|-

|Scranton and Spring Brook Railroad

|

|

|1897

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Shade Gap Railroad

|

|

|1884

|1913

|East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company

|-

|Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad

|

|RDG

|1882

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Shamokin and Trevorton Railroad

|

|RDG

|1868

|1870

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Railroad

|-

|Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1858

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Sharon Railway

|

|ERIE

|1873

|1953

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Sharon and Ceres Railroad

|

|

|1901

|1904

|New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Sharon Connecting Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Sharpsville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1876

|1931

|Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Sharpsville and Oakland Railroad

|

|PRR

|1866

|1876

|Sharpsville Railroad

|-

|Sharpsville, Wheatland, Sharon and Greenfield Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1870

|1875

|Sharon Railway

|-

|Shawmut Connecting Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1900

|1905

|Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

|-

|Sheffield and Spring Creek Railroad

|

|

|1884

|1894

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|-

|Sheffield and Tionesta Railway

|S&T

|

|1900

|1943<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Shenango and Allegheny Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1867

|1888

|Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Shenango and Beaver Valley Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1902

|1902

|Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad

|-

|Shenango Valley Railroad

|

|NYC

|1886

|1963

|Mahoning and Shenango Valley Railway

|-

|Sinnemahoning Portage Railroad

|

|PRR

|1865

|1866

|Buffalo and Washington Railway

|-

|Sinnemahoning Valley Railroad

|

|B&O

|1885

|1893

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Slackwater Connecting Railroad

|

|

|1892

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Slate Ridge and Delta Railway

|

|

|1879

|1888

|Maryland Central Railway

|-

|Slate Run Railroad

|

|

|1884

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Slate Valley Railroad

|

|LNE

|1886

|1891

|Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad

|-

|Smethport Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1931<!--?-->

|N/A

|Operated by Mount Jewett, Kinzua and Riterville Railroad

|-

|Smethport and Olean Railroad

|

|PS&N

|1895

|1899

|Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

|-

|Smithfield and Masontown Railroad

|

|B&O

|1899

|1915

|Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad

|-

|Somerset and Bedford Railroad

|

|PRR

|1894

|1894

|Pennsylvania Midland Railroad

|-

|Somerset and Cambria Railroad

|

|B&O

|1879

|1912

|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Pennsylvania

|-

|Somerset Coal Railway

|

|WM

|1915

|1950

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Somerset and Mineral Point Railroad

|

|B&O

|1868

|1879

|Somerset and Cambria Railroad

|-

|South Branch Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea - the name is too ambiguous-->

|

|

|-

|South Chester Railroad

|

|PRR

|1891

|1906

|Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

|-

|South Easton and Phillipsburg Railroad

|

|

|1899

|1912

|Lehigh and Hudson River Railway

|-

|South Fork Railroad

|

|PRR

|1890

|1903

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|South Mountain Iron Company

|

|RDG

|1869

|1877

|South Mountain Railway and Mining Company

|-

|South Mountain Railway and Mining Company

|

|RDG

|1877

|1891

|Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway

|-

|South Shore Railroad

|

|

|1892

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Southern Pennsylvania Iron and Railroad Company

|

|PRR

|1869

|1872

|Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company

|-

|Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company

|

|PRR

|1873

|1954

|Penndel Company

|-

|Southwark Railroad

|

|PRR

|1831

|1877

|Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad

|-

|South West Connecting Railway

|

|PRR

|1897

|1908

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|South-West Pennsylvania Railway

|

|PRR

|1871

|1906

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Southwestern Du Bois Railroad

|

|B&O

|1905

|1907

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Spring Brook Railroad

|

|

|1871

|1890

|Scranton and Spring Brook Railroad

|-

|Spring Brook Horse Railway

|

|

|1869

|1871<!--?-->

|Spring Brook Railroad

|-

|Spring Creek Railway

|

|

|1902

|1904

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|-

|State Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1890

|1895

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|State Line Railroad

|

|B&O

|1884

|1893

|Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad

|-

|State Line and Sullivan Railroad

|

|LV

|1874

|1949

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Stewart Railroad

|

|NYC

|1887

|1963

|Mahoning and Shenango Valley Railway

|-

|Stewartstown Railroad

|STRT

|

|1884

|1992

|Continued as a tourist railroad

|-

|Stony Creek Railroad

|

|RDG

|1868

|1945

|Reading Company

|-

|Sullivan and Erie Coal and Railroad Company

|

|LV

|1865

|1874

|State Line and Sullivan Railroad

|-

|Summit Branch Railroad

|

|

|1846<!--??-->

|1897

|Summit Branch Coal Company

|-

|Sunbury and Erie Railroad

|

|PRR

|1837

|1861

|Philadelphia and Erie Railroad

|-

|Sunbury, Hazleton and Wilkesbarre Railway

|

|PRR

|1878

|1900

|Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

|-

|Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad

|

|PRR

|1870

|1900

|Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna Railroad

|

|B&O

|1891

|1893

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna Railroad

|

|PRR

|1851

|1854

|Northern Central Railway

|-

|Susquehanna, Bloomsburg, and Berwick Railroad

|

|PRR

|1902

|1918

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna and Buffalo Railroad

|

|

|1891

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad

|

|PRR/NYC

|1879

|1901

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|Sold by the Pennsylvania Railroad to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1901

|-

|Susquehanna Connecting Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1896

|<!--no idea - it survived as an NYS&W subsidiary operated by Erie/EL/Conrail; the line was sold to Pocono Northeast in 1982??-->

|

|-

|Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea-->

|

|

|-

|Susquehanna, Gettysburg and Potomac Railway

|

|WM

|1871

|1874

|Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna and New York Railroad

|S&NY

|LV

|1902

|1942

|Lehigh Valley Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna and New York Railroad

|

|B&O

|1898

|1901

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna River and Western Railroad

|

|

|1903

|1939

|N/A

|-

|Susquehanna and Southern Railroad

|

|B&O

|1902

|1906

|Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna and Southwestern Railroad

|

|NYC

|1882

|1883

|Beech Creek, Clearfield and Southwestern Railroad

|-

|Susquehanna and Union Bridge Company

|

|RDG

|1850

|1854

|Trevorton and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Swatara Railroad

|

|RDG

|1841

|1863

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Swatara and Good Spring Railroad

|

|RDG

|1840

|1841

|Swatara Railroad

|-

|Tamaqua, Hazleton and Northern Railroad

|

|RDG

|1891

|1923

|Reading Company

|-

|Thomas Railroad

|

|LV/ RDG

|1906

|1917

|Ironton Railroad

|-

|Three Rivers Railway

|

|

|1992

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation

|-

|Tiadaghton and Fahnastalk Railway

|

|

|1892

|<!--no idea-->

|<!--Leetonia??-->

|-

|Tioga Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1850

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|Tioga Navigation Company

|

|ERIE

|1828<!--authorized to construct a railroad-->

|1852

|Tioga Railroad

|-

|Tionesta Valley Railroad

|

|

|1879

|1894

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|-

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|

|

|1894

|1941

|N/A

|-

|Tionesta Valley and Hickory Railway

|

|

|1892

|1911

|Sheffield and Tionesta Railway

|-

|Tionesta Valley and Salmon Creek Railway

|

|

|1893

|1901

|Sheffield and Tionesta Railway

|-

|Tipton Railroad

|

|PRR

|1885

|1927<!--??-->

|N/A

|-

|Titusville and Oil City Railway

|

|PRR

|1878

|1881

|Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

|-

|Titusville and Petroleum Centre Railroad

|

|PRR

|1870

|1878

|Titusville and Oil City Railway

|-

|Towanda and Franklin Railroad

|

|LV

|1853

|1854

|Barclay Railroad and Coal Company

|-

|Trenton Cut-off Railroad

|

|PRR

|1889

|1902

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Trenton Delaware Bridge Company

|

|PRR

|1835<!--this is when tracks were authorized?-->

|1903<!--new bridge opened?-->

|N/A

|-

|Tresckow Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1870

|1963

|Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

|-

|Trevorton Coal Company

|

|RDG

|1861

|1867

|Zerbe Valley Railroad

|-

|Trevorton Coal and Railroad Company

|

|RDG

|1856

|1860

|Trevorton Coal Company

|-

|Trevorton, Mahanoy and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|RDG

|1850

|1854

|Trevorton and Susquehanna Railroad

|-

|Trevorton and Susquehanna Railroad

|

|RDG

|1854

|1856

|Trevorton Coal and Railroad Company

|-

|Turbotville and Williamsport Railroad

|

|PRR

|1892

|1893

|Central Pennsylvania and Western Railroad

|-

|Turtle Creek and Allegheny River Railroad

|

|

|<!--no idea, but it's old-->

|

|

|-

|Turtle Creek Valley Railroad

|

|PRR

|1886

|1903

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Tuscarora Valley Railroad

|

|

|1891

|1934

|N/A

|-

|Tylerdale Connecting Railroad

|TYC

|B&O/ PRR

|1899

|

|

|Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation

|-

|Tyrone and Clearfield Railroad

|

|PRR

|1854

|1866

|Pennsylvania Railroad, Tyrone and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Tyrone and Clearfield Railway

|

|PRR

|1867

|1903

|Cambria and Clearfield Railway

|-

|Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad

|

|PRR

|1857

|1861

|Bald Eagle Valley Railroad

|-

|Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania

|

|RDG

|1826<!--authorized to construct a railroad, March 3, 1826-->

|1866

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|Union Coal Company

|

|D&H

|1864

|1868

|Baltimore Coal and Union Railroad Company

|-

|Union and Titusville Railroad

|

|PRR

|1866

|1871

|Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway

|-

|Uniontown Railway

|

|PRR

|1879

|1879

|Brownsville Railway

|-

|Uniontown and West Virginia Railroad

|

|PRR

|1868

|1877

|South-West Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

|

|PRR

|1958<!--or December 31, 1957?-->

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Unity Railways

|UNI

|

|1915

|1990

|N/A

|-

|Ursina and North Fork Railroad

|

|

|1871

|1882

|Ursina and North Fork Railway

|-

|Ursina and North Fork Railway

|

|

|1882

|1936<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Valley Railroad

|

|

|1893

|1936<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Valley Connecting Railroad

|

|

|1898

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway

|

|P&WV

|1904

|1916

|Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway

|-

|Wampum and State Line Railway

|

|PLE/ PRR

|1886

|1886

|Pittsburgh, Marion and Chicago Railway

|-

|Warren and Farnsworth Railroad

|

|

|1885

|1894

|Tionesta Valley Railway

|-

|Warren and Farnsworth Valley Railroad

|

|

|1882

|1885

|Warren and Farnsworth Railroad

|-

|Warren and Franklin Railway

|

|PRR

|1864

|1868

|Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway

|-

|Warren and Tidioute Railroad

|

|PRR

|1861

|1864

|Warren and Franklin Railway

|-

|Warren and Venango Railroad

|

|NYC

|1871

|1873

|Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad

|-

|Washington Railroad

|

|B&O

|1879

|1879

|Pittsburgh Southern Railway

|-

|Washington County Railroad

|

|P&WV

|1900

|1901

|Pittsburgh, Carnegie and Western Railroad

|-

|Washington and Franklin Railroad

|

|WM

|1898

|1899

|Washington and Franklin Railway

|-

|Washington and Franklin Railway

|

|WM

|1899

|

|

|Owned by the Reading Company and leased to the Western Maryland Railway; still exists as a lessor of CSX Transportation, owned by Reading International, Inc.

|-

|Washington and Maryland Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1857

|1860

|Columbia and Maryland Line Railroad

|-

|Washington Run Railroad

|WRN

|

|1895

|1931<!--??-->

|N/A

|-

|Water Gap Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1880

|1881

|New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad

|-

|Waynesburg Southern Railroad

|WAS

|MGA

|1966

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Waynesburg and Washington Railroad

|WAW

|PRR

|1875

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Wellsboro and Lawrenceville Railroad

|

|NYC

|1867

|1873

|Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim Railway

|-

|Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad

|WAG

|

|1954

|1979

|N/A

|-

|West Branch Valley Railroad

|

|NYC

|1898

|1901

|Beech Creek Extension Railroad

|-

|West Chester Railroad

|

|PRR

|1831

|1903

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad

|

|PRR

|1848

|1881

|Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad

|-

|West Clarion Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1897

|1941

|Erie Railroad

|-

|West Penn and Shenango Connecting Railroad

|

|B&LE

|1882

|1889

|Pittsburgh, Butler and Shenango Railroad

|-

|West Pittston – Exeter Railroad

|

|LV

|1925

|<!--no idea - the Lehigh Valley began operating it in 1973-->

|

|-

|West Reading Railroad

|

|RDG

|1860

|1873

|Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

|-

|West Side Belt Railroad

|WSB

|P&WV

|1895

|1928<!--??-->

|Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway

|-

|Westerman Coal and Iron Railroad

|

|ERIE

|

|1941

|Nypano Railroad

|-

|Western Allegheny Railroad

|WAL

|B&LE

|1902

|1967

|Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|-

|Western Maryland Railroad

|

|WM

|1879<!--leased the Baltimore and Cumberland Valley Railroad, or was there something earlier?-->

|1909

|Western Maryland Railway

|-

|Western Maryland Railway

|WM

|WM

|1909

|1989

|CSX Transportation

|-

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|PRR

|1887

|1895

|Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway

|-

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

|

|PRR

|1895

|1955

|Penndel Company

|-

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway of Pennsylvania

|

|PRR

|1887

|1887

|Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Western Pennsylvania Railroad

|

|PRR

|1860

|1903

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Western Washington Railroad

|

|PRR

|1900

|1907

|Chartiers Railway

|-

|Westinghouse Inter-Works Railway

|

|

|1902

|1962

|

|-

|White Deer and Logantown Railway

|

|

|1906

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Wheeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Railroad

|

|B&O

|1872

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Wilcox and Howard Hill Improvement Company

|

|ERIE

|1870

|1881

|New York, Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad Company

|-

|Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad

|WBC

|D&H/ PRR

|1912

|<!--no idea - does it still exist?-->

|

|-

|Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad

|

|ERIE

|1892

|1941<!--?-->

|Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad<!--bought Suscon-Plains-->

|-

|Wilkes-Barre and Harvey's Lake Railroad

|

|LV

|1885

|1904

|Loyalsock Railroad

|-

|Wilkesbarre and Pittston Railroad

|

|PRR

|1859

|1867

|Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad

|-

|Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Railroad

|

|CNJ

|1851

|1860

|Nanticoke Railroad

|-

|Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Railway

|

|CNJ

|1886

|1963

|Central Railroad of New Jersey

|-

|Wilkesbarre and Western Railway

|

|PRR

|1886

|1893

|Central Pennsylvania and Western Railroad

|-

|Williams Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1891

|1947

|Reading Company

|-

|Williamsport and Elmira Railroad

|

|PRR

|1832

|1860

|Elmira and Williamsport Railroad

|-

|Williamsport and North Branch Railroad

|W&NB

|

|1882

|1921

|Williamsport and North Branch Railway

|-

|Williamsport and North Branch Railway

|W&NB

|

|1921

|1937

|N/A

|-

|Wilmington and Northern Railroad

|

|RDG

|1877

|1976

|Consolidated Rail Corporation

|-

|Wilmington and Reading Railroad

|

|RDG

|1866

|1876

|Wilmington and Northern Railroad

|-

|Wilmington and Western Railroad

|

|B&O

|1869

|1877

|Delaware Western Railroad

|-

|Wind Gap and Delaware Railroad

|

|LNE

|1880

|1904

|Lehigh and New England Railroad

|-

|Winfield Railroad

|

|

|1900

|1979<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Wrightsville and Gettysburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1836

|1837

|Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad

|-

|Wrightsville and York Railroad

|

|PRR

|1835

|1837

|Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad

|-

|Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad

|

|PRR

|1837

|1870

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|Wyoming and Pond Creek Railroad

|

|

|1897

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|York and Cumberland Railroad

|

|PRR

|1846

|1854

|Northern Central Railway

|-

|York, Hanover and Frederick Railroad

|

|PRR

|1897

|1914

|York, Hanover and Frederick Railway

|-

|York, Hanover and Frederick Railway

|

|PRR

|1914

|1954

|Penndel Company

|-

|York Haven and Rowenna Railroad

|

|PRR

|1902

|1906

|Pennsylvania Railroad

|-

|York and Maryland Line Railroad

|

|PRR

|1832

|1854

|Northern Central Railway

|-

|York and Peach Bottom Railway

|

|

|1882

|1891

|Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad

|-

|York Southern Railroad

|

|

|1894

|1901

|Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad

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|York Terminal Railway

|

|

|1913

|<!--not sure - does it still exist?-->

|

|-

|Youghiogheny and Ligonier Valley Railroad

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|B&O

|1906

|1906

|Indian Creek Valley Railway

|-

|Youghiogheny Northern Railway

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|PLE

|1881

|1945<!--?-->

|N/A

|-

|Youghiogheny and Wick Haven Railroad

|

|

|1893

|<!--no idea-->

|

|-

|Youngstown, Lawrence and Pittsburgh Railroad

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|PRR

|1887

|1887

|Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad

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|Youngstown and Southern Railway

|YS

|PLE/ PRR

|1945

|1996

|Railroad Ventures, Inc.

|-

|Zerbe Valley Railroad

|

|RDG

|1867

|1870

|Mahanoy and Shamokin Railroad

|}

Electric

  • Adamsville and Mohnsville Electric Railway
  • Allegheny, Bellevue and Perrysville Railway
  • Allegheny Traction Company
  • Allegheny Valley Street Railway
  • Allen Street Railway
  • Allentown and Reading Traction Company
  • Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway
  • Ardmore and Llanerch Street Railway
  • Bangor and Portland Traction Company
  • Beaver Valley Traction Company
  • Bethlehem and Nazareth Passenger Railway
  • Birdsboro Street Railway
  • Blue Ridge Traction Company
  • Bradford Street Railroad
  • Butler Passenger Railway
  • Cambria Incline Plane Company
  • Carbon Street Railway
  • Carbondale Railway
  • Carlisle and Mechanicsburg Street Railway
  • Carlisle and Mount Holly Railway
  • Catherine and Bainbridge Streets Railway of Philadelphia
  • Centennial Passenger Railway
  • Central Pennsylvania Traction Company
  • Central Traction Company
  • Central Valley Railroad
  • Centre and Clearfield Street Railway
  • Chambersburg and Gettysburg Electric Railway
  • Chambersburg, Greencastle and Waynesboro Street Railway
  • Chester, Darby and Philadelphia Railway
  • Chester and Delaware Street Railway
  • Chester and Media Electric Railway
  • Chester Street Railway
  • Chester Traction Company
  • Citizens' Clearfield and Cambria Streets Railway
  • Citizens' East End Street Railway
  • Citizens' Passenger Railway<!--in Philly-->
  • Citizens Passenger Railway<!--operated by Schuylkill Valley Traction-->
  • Citizens Traction Company
  • Citizens' Traction Company of Oil City, Pennsylvania
  • Clairton Street Railway
  • Coal Castle Electric Railway
  • Coatesville Traction Company
  • Collegeville Electric Street Railway
  • Colonial Street Railway
  • Columbia and Montour Electric Railway
  • Conestoga Traction Company
  • Conneaut and Erie Traction Company
  • Conshohocken Railway
  • Consolidated Traction Company
  • Continental Passenger Railway
  • Corry and Columbus Street Railway
  • Cumberland Railway
  • Danville and Bloomsburg Street Railway
  • Danville and Sunbury Transit Company
  • Delaware County and Philadelphia Electric Railway
  • Doylestown and Easton Street Railway
  • Doylestown and Willow Grove Railway
  • DuBois Traction Company
  • Duquesne Traction Company
  • East End Passenger Railway
  • East McKeesport Street Railway
  • East Reading Electric Railway
  • Easton and Bethlehem Transit Company
  • Easton, Palmer and Bethlehem Street Railway
  • Easton and South Bethlehem Transit Company
  • Easton Transit Company
  • Electric Traction Company
  • Empire Passenger Railway
  • Ephrata and Adamstown Railway
  • Erie Electric Motor Company
  • Erie Rapid Transit Street Railway
  • Erie Traction Company
  • Fairchance and Smithfield Traction Company
  • Fairmount Park and Haddington Passenger Railway
  • Fairmount Park Transportation Company
  • Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway
  • Frankford and Southwark Philadelphia City Passenger Railway
  • French Point Street Railway
  • Front and Fifth Streets Railway
  • Germantown Passenger Railway
  • Gettysburg Electric Railway
  • Girard Avenue Passenger Railway
  • Green and Coates Streets Passenger Railway
  • Hagerstown Railway
  • Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway
  • Harrisburg City Passenger Railway
  • Harrisburg and Hummelstown Street Railway
  • Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg Electric Railway
  • Harrisburg Traction Company
  • Heston, Mantua and Fairmount Passenger Railway
  • Highland Grove Traction Company
  • Hillcrest Avenue Passenger Railway
  • Holmesburg, Tacony and Frankford Electric Railway
  • Homestead and Mifflin Street Railway
  • Hummelstown and Campbellstown Street Railway
  • Huntingdon, Lewistown and Juniata Valley Traction Company
  • Huntingdon Street Connecting Passenger Railway
  • Irwin–Herminie Traction Company
  • Jefferson Traction Company
  • Jersey Shore Electric Street Railway
  • Johnstown Passenger Railway
  • Johnstown Traction Company
  • Kessler Street Connecting Passenger Railway
  • Kittaning and Leechburg Railways
  • Kutztown and Fleetwood Street Railway
  • Lackawanna Valley Traction Company
  • Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (L&WV)
  • Lake Erie Traction Company
  • Lancaster and Columbia Railway
  • Lancaster, Mechanicsburg and New Holland Railway
  • Lancaster, Petersburg and Manheim Railway
  • Lancaster and Quarryville Street Railway
  • Lancaster and Rocky Springs Railway
  • Lancaster and Southern Street Railway
  • Lancaster, Willow Street, Lampeter and Strasburg Railway
  • Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
  • Latrobe Street Railway
  • Lebanon Valley Street Railway
  • Lehigh Avenue Railway
  • Lehigh Traction Company
  • Lehigh Valley Transit Company
  • Lewisburg, Milton and Watsontown Passenger Railway
  • Lewistown and Reedsville Electric Railway
  • Linglestown and Blue Mountain Street Railway
  • Lykens and Williams Valley Street Railway
  • Mahoning Valley Street Railway
  • Meadville and Cambridge Springs Street Railway
  • Meadville Traction Company
  • Media, Glen Riddle and Rockdale Electric Street Railway
  • Media, Middletown, Aston and Chester Electric Railway
  • Middletown, Highspire and Steelton Street Railway
  • Monongahela Street Railway
  • Montgomery and Chester Electric Railway
  • Montgomery County Passenger Railway
  • Montgomery County Rapid Transit Company
  • Montgomery Traction Company
  • Montoursville Passenger Railway
  • Morningside Electric Street Railway
  • Mount Vernon Electric Street Railway
  • Mount Washington Street Railway
  • Neversink Mountain Railway
  • New Castle and Lowell Railway
  • New Holland, Blue Ball and Terre Hill Street Railway
  • New Homestead Street Railway
  • New Jersey and Pennsylvania Traction Company
  • Newtown Electric Railway
  • Newtown, Langhorne and Bristol Trolley Street Railway
  • Newtown and Yardley Street Railway
  • Northampton Central Street Railway
  • Northampton Traction Company
  • Northern Cambria Street Railway
  • Northern Electric Street Railway
  • Northern Passenger Railway
  • Norristown Passenger Railway
  • Northumberland County Traction Company
  • Oakdale and McDonald Street Railway
  • Oil City, Rouseville and Franklin Railway
  • Oil City Station Railway
  • Olean, Rock City and Bradford Railroad
  • Olean, Rock City and Bradford Electric Railroad
  • Oley Valley Railway
  • Oxford, West Grove and Avondale Street Railway
  • Patterson Heights Street Railway
  • Pennsylvania and Mahoning Valley Railway
  • Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway
  • Pennsylvania Motor Company
  • People's Railway<!--Pottsville-->
  • People's Passenger Railway
  • People's Street Railway of Nanticoke and Newport
  • Philadelphia, Bristol and Trenton Street Railway
  • Philadelphia, Cheltenham and Jenkintown Passenger Railway
  • Philadelphia and Chester Railway
  • Philadelphia City Passenger Railway
  • Philadelphia and Darby Railway
  • Philadelphia and Easton Electric Railway
  • Philadelphia and Easton Railway
  • Philadelphia and Garrettford Street Railway
  • Philadelphia and Grays Ferry Passenger Railway
  • Philadelphia, Morton and Swarthmore Street Railway
  • Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
  • Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company
  • Philadelphia Traction Company
  • Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company
  • Philadelphia and Western Railroad
  • Philadelphia and Western Railway
  • Philadelphia and Willow Grove Street Railway
  • Pittsburgh and Allegheny Valley Railway
  • Pittsburgh and Birmingham Traction Company
  • Pittsburgh and Charleroi Street Railway
  • Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway
  • Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Greensburg Railway
  • Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Westmoreland Railway
  • Pittsburgh Railways
  • Pittsburgh Traction Company
  • Pittston and Scranton Street Railway
  • Plymouth and Larksville Railway
  • Port Carbon and Middleport Electric Railway
  • Pottstown and Northern Street Railway
  • Pottstown Passenger Railway
  • Pottstown and Reading Street Railway
  • Pottsville and Reading Railway
  • Pottsville Union Traction Company
  • Quakertown Traction Railway
  • Reading City Passenger Railway
  • Reading and Southwestern Street Railway
  • Reading and Temple Electric Railway
  • Reading Traction Company
  • Reading Transit and Light Company
  • Red Lion and Windsor Street Railway
  • Ridge Avenue Connecting Railway
  • Ridge Avenue Passenger Railway
  • Rohrerstown, Landisville and Mount Joy Street Railway
  • Roxborough, Chestnut Hill and Norristown Railway
  • Schuylkill Railway
  • Schuylkill Electric Railway
  • Schuylkill Haven and Orwigsburg Street Railway
  • Schuylkill Valley Traction Company
  • Scranton Railway
  • Scranton and Carbondale Traction Company
  • Scranton, Dunmore, and Moosic Lake Railroad
  • Scranton and Northeastern Railroad
  • Scranton and Pittston Traction Company
  • Scranton Traction Company
  • Second and Third Streets Passenger Railway
  • Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets Passenger Railway
  • Shamokin and Edgewood Electric Railway
  • Shamokin Extension Electric Railway
  • Shamokin and Mount Carmel Transit Company
  • Sharon and New Castle Street Railway
  • Sharon and Wheatland Street Railway
  • Shingle House Railroad
  • Slate Belt Electric Street Railway
  • South Bethlehem and Saucon Street Railway
  • South Side Passenger Railway
  • South Waverly Street Railway
  • Southwestern Street Railway
  • Stroudsburg Passenger Railway
  • Stroudsburg, Water Gap and Portland Railway
  • Suburban Rapid Transit Street Railway
  • Sunbury and Northumberland Electric Railway
  • Susquehanna Traction Company
  • Tamaqua and Lansford Street Railway
  • Tamaqua and Pottsville Electric Railroad
  • Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway
  • Titusville Electric Traction Company
  • Trappe and Limerick Electric Street Railway
  • Trenton, New Hope and Lambertville Street Railway
  • Tri-State Railway and Electric Company
  • Twenty-Second Street and Allegheny Avenue Passenger Railway
  • Union Passenger Railway
  • Union Traction Company of Philadelphia
  • United Traction Company
  • United Traction Company of Pittsburgh
  • United Traction Street Railway<!--DuBois-->
  • Vallamont Traction Company
  • Valley Street Railway
  • Valley Traction Company
  • Walnut Street Connecting Passenger Railway
  • Warren County Traction Company
  • Warren and Jamestown Street Railway
  • Warren Street Railway
  • Washington and Canonsburg Railway
  • Waverly, Sayre and Athens Traction Company
  • Webster, Monessen, Belle Vernon and Fayette City Street Railway
  • West Chester Street Railway
  • West Chester, Kennett and Wilmington Electric Railway
  • West Fairview and Marysville Electric Street Railway
  • West Penn Railways
  • West Philadelphia Passenger Railway
  • West Side Electric Street Railway
  • Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
  • Westmoreland County Railway
  • White Hill and Mechanicsburg Passenger Railway
  • Whitehall Street Railway
  • Wilkes-Barre Railroad
  • Wilkes-Barre Railway
  • Wilkes-Barre, Dallas and Harvey's Lake Railway
  • Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railroad
  • Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction Company
  • Williamsport Passenger Railway
  • Wissahickon Electric Passenger Railway
  • Wrightsville and York Street Railway
  • Yardley, Morrisville and Trenton Street Railway
  • York and Dallastown Electric Railway
  • York and Dover Electric Railway
  • York Haven Street Railway
  • York Street Railway
  • Youngsville and Sugar Grove Street Railway

Private carriers

  • Birmingham Coal Company
  • Clinton Coal Company
  • H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad
  • Lawrence Ore Company
  • Leiper Railroad
  • Mehard Coal Company
  • Perry Lumber Company
  • Shawnee Railroad

Passenger carriers

  • Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill and Switchback Railroad
  • Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway
  • Quakertown & Eastern Railroad
  • Valley Forge Scenic Railroad
  • Wawa and Concordville Railroad

Not completed

  • Blue Mountain Railroad
  • Duncannon, Landisburg and Broad Top Railroad
  • Harrisburg and Hamburg Railroad
  • Harrisburg and South Mountain Railroad
  • Pennsylvania Pacific Railway
  • Philipsburg and Johnstown Railroad
  • Pittsburgh, Binghamton & Eastern Railroad
  • Shermans Valley and Broad Top Railroad
  • South Mountain Railroad
  • South Pennsylvania Railroad
  • South Side Railroad

Notes

References

  • Railroad Companies Operating in PA