List of Kentucky railroads

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

Common freight carriers

*BNSF Railway (BNSF)
*Canadian National Railway (CN)
*Carrollton Railroad (CARR)
*CSX Transportation (CSXT)
**Operates the Glasgow Railway
*Fredonia Valley Railroad (FVRR)
*Hardin Southern Railroad (HSRR)
*Indiana Rail Road (INRD)
*Kentucky and Tennessee Railway (KT)
*KWT Railway (KWT)
*Louisville and Indiana Railroad (LIRC)
*Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
*Paducah and Illinois Railroad (PI)
*Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL)
*R.J. Corman Railroad/Bardstown Line (RJCR)
*R.J. Corman Railroad/Central Kentucky Lines (RJCC)
*R.J. Corman Railroad/Memphis Line (RJCM)
*Tennken Railroad (TKEN)
*Transkentucky Transportation Railroad (TTIS)
*Western Kentucky Railway (WKRL)

Private freight carriers

*Cando Contracting
*Respondek Railroad
*R.J. Corman Railroad Switching

Passenger carriers

*Amtrak (AMTK)

Defunct railroads

* Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
* Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNTP)
* Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
* Covington, Flemingsburg and Pound Gap Railway
* Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GMO)
* Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
* Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (ICG)
* Kentucky and South Atlantic Railway
* Kentucky Central
* Lenox Railroad An extension of the Morehead & North Fork, Redwine to Lenox.
* Licking River Railroad
* Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N)
* Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railroad
* Monon Railroad (CIL, MON)
* Mountain Central Railway
* Morehead and North Fork Railroad Morehead to Redwine
* Norfolk and Western Railway (NW)
* Ohio and Kentucky Railroad 1910-1933 Jackson to Licking River near West Liberty
* Owingsville and Olympia Railroad
* Red River Valley Railroad
* Soo Line (SOO) – Held trackage rights in Louisville.
* Southern Railway (SOU)

ee also

* List of United States railroads

References

* Association of American Railroads (2003), " [http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRState_KY.pdf Railroad Service in Kentucky] " (PDF). Retrieved May 9 2005.
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* Brown, Fred (2008). " [http://www.windpub.com/books/Steam.htm Steam in the Heart: Life and Times Along the Morehead & North Fork Rails.] " Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications. ISBN 978-1-893239-79-1.