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Rails
in Nebraska
Historic &
Modern Rail lines in the State
Company
Name / Reporting Marks - classification
- current status - miles operated within state (year)
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Burlington
and Missouri River Railroad / B&MR
One of
the first railroads in Nebraska - later became CB&Q.
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Burlington
Northern Railroad / BN -
Class 1 - predecessor of BNSF
Grew out
of the CB&Q after the Merger with Northern Pacific.
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Burlington
Northern Sante Fe Railroad / BNSF - Class
1 - operational - 1,686
miles (1999)
Formed
by the union of BN with the ATSF in the mid-1990's.
Burlington
Northern Santa Fe Railroad
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Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad / CB&Q
- predecessor of BN
Outgrowth
of B&MR, commonly called the Burlington. Originated from Burlington,
Iowa.
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Central
Branch Union Pacific / CBUP -
merged into MP
Running
from Atchison, Kansas west and into south central Nebraska. The CBUP
was operated and eventually purchased by the Missouri Pacific, which
later became the Northern Kansas Division of the MoPac.
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Chicago,
Central & Pacific Railroad - regional
shortline - operational - 2 (1999)
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Chicago
& North Western Railway / C&NW
- Class 1 - merged into UP
Originating
in Illinois, the road aquired the FE&MV in 1903, which ran through
Nebraska. It also controlled the CStPM&O as a seperatecompany
until 1957. The road operated 1,405 route miles (FE&MV and CStPM&O
combined) in Nebraska. The North Western merged with UP in the late
1990's.
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Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad /
CRI&P - Class 1 - ceased operations
Also known
as Rock Island or the Rock. Originating from Illinois, the road built
its Chicago-Colorado mainline across southest Nebraska. The Rock Island
went broke and ceased operations in March 1980.
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Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway / CStPM&O
- merged into C&NW
Operated
between the cities above, and later merged into the C&NW.
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Dakota,
Minnesota & Eastern Railroad -
regional shortline - operational - 39 (1999)
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Fillmore
Western Railway - local shortline
- operational - 24 miles (1999)
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Fremont,
Ekhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad / FE&MV
- merged into C&NW
Merged
into the C&NW. The original route is preserved today as a short
tourist railroad.
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Iowa
Interstate Railroad, Ltd. - regional
shortline - operational
- 3 miles (1998)
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Kearney
and Black Hills Railway / K&BH - shortline
- merged into UP
Shortline
built between Kearney and Calaway in 1890. UP aquired the road in
1898.
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Kansas
City North Western Railroad / KCNW - operations
ceased
Built in
1889 as the Kansas City, Wyandotte and North Western Railroad, with
trackage from KC to Virginia, Nebraska. MP controlled the line for
many years, but it reverted back to the shortline in 1917 as KCNW.
Operations ceased in 1919.
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Kansas
City and Omaha Railroad / KC&O
Originally
built by StJ&GI in 1886-7. CB&Q aquired the road in 1902.
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Kyle
Railroad - regional shortline - operational
-
56 miles (1999)
Kyle Railroad
operates on 692 miles of track in the northern tier of Kansas, eastern
Nebraska and eastern Colorado serving the agriculture rich winter
wheat and feed grain region of the high plains.
StatesRail
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Missouri
Pacific Railroad / MP -
Class 1 - merged into UP
Also called
MoPac, originating from St. Louis with rails from the Gulf to Colorado,
extended 347 route miles in southern and southeastern Nebraska which
the road built in the 1860's-1880's. The road also aquired the Central
Branch Union Pacific (a Nebraska shortline) during the road's early
push into Southern Nebraska. MoPac would merge with the UP in 1983.
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Nebkota
Railway, Inc.
- local shortline - operational - 103
miles (1999)
Operates
between Chadron and Merriman, Nebraska, with connections to the Burlington
Northern Santa Fe in Crawford, 19 miles west of Chadron. Locally owned
and operated, NEBKOTA hauls grain, fertilizer, rock, cement, scrap
metal, and recyclable products.
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Nebraska
Central Railroad -
local
shortline - operational - 282 miles (1999)
A collection
of five (5) former Union Pacific Railroad branch lines, is a 250 mile
property operating in north central Nebraska. Shipments are predominately
grain and agricultural products, scrap iron, and finished metal products.
Rio Grande Pacific Corporation maintains a 100% equity interest in
this property.
Nebraska
Central Railroad Company
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Nebraska,
Kansas & Colorado RailNet, Inc.
- regional shortline - operational
- 231 miles (1999)
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Nebraska
& Lake Superior Railroad -
shortline - operational
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Nebraska
Northeastern Railway Co.
- local shortline - operational - 120
miles (1999)
A wholly-owned
subsidiary of TNW Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The
road interchanges with the BNSF.
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Nebraska
Southern Railway Company -
shortline - operational
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Omaha
Lincoln & Beatrice Railroad / OL&B -
shortline - operational
Once ran trolley
cars but now serves as a shortline switcher service in Lincoln and
Ashland.
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St.
Joseph & Grand Island Railroad / StJ&GI
Operated as UP
subsidiary.
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Union
Pacific Railroad / UP -
Class 1 - operational
- 1,110 miles (1999)
Originating
in Omaha as the state's first railway. Operated 1,358 route miles
through Nebraska before mergers with MP and C&NW.
Union
Pacific R.R.
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Latest
update: Thursday, 13 November, 2003
Sources:
The
Hub of Burlington Lines West
by Holck
Photos
taken in Lincoln, Nebraska unless otherwise noted.
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