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Macomb and Western Illinois RR |
Opened in 1904, abandoned in 1930. |
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Macon and Birmingham RR |
Opened in 1904, abandoned in 1922.(GSandF 1891-6) |
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Macon Dublin and Savannah RR |
Opened in 1891, became part of the Seaboard Air Line RR/Ry. in 1958. |
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Magma Arizona RR |
Opened in 1914, .Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1940 |
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Mahoning and Shenango Ry. and Lt. |
Consolidation of Mahoning Valley Electric Ry. and others in 1905, becamne the Penn Ohio Electic Co. in 1920.(Republic Ry. and Lt. after 1911) |
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Mahoning Valley Ry. |
Consolidation of Youngstown St. Ry. and Mahoning Valley Electric Ry. in 1896, became the Mahoning and Shenango Ry. and Lt. in 1905. |
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Maine Central RR |
Opened in 1862, became part of the Guilford Transportation in 1981. |
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Manchester and Oneida Ry. |
Opened in 1901, abandoned in 1951. |
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Manchester Street Rys. |
Opened in 1896, became the Manchester Traction Light and Power Co. in 1925. |
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Manchester Traction Light and Power Co. |
From Manchester St. Rys. in 1925, acquired by the Public Service Co, in 1926. |
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Manhattan Ry. |
From a reorganization in 1884, electrified and then leased to the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. in 1903. |
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Manistee and Northeastern Ry. |
Opened in 1889, became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. in 1955. |
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Manitou and Pikes Peak Ry. |
Opened in 1891, . |
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Manitowoc and Northern Traction Co. |
Opened in 1902, abandoned in 1926. |
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Mansfield Public Utility and Service Co. |
Opened in 1913, became the Richland Public Service Co. in 1918. |
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Mansfield Ry. Light and Power |
Opened in 1903, became the Mansfield Public Utility and Service Co. in 1913. |
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Marcellus and Otisco Lake Ry. |
From Marcellus Electric [not] RR in 1905, abandoned in 1959.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1917 |
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Marianna and Blountstown RR |
Opened in 1910, abandoned in 1976. |
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Maricopa and Phoenix RR |
From Maricopa Phoenix and Salt River Valley RR in 1908, became part of the Arizona Eastern RR in 1909. |
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Marietta and Cincinnati RR |
Opened in 1851, became the Cincinnati Wash. and Baltimore in 1883. |
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Marietta and North Georgia RR |
Opened in 1879, became the Atlanta Knoxville and Northern RR in 1896. |
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Marietta Columbus and Cleveland RR |
From Toledo and Ohio Central Extension RR in 1900, acquired by the NYC in 1916. |
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Marinette Tomahawk and Western RR |
From 1896, became Tomahawk RR in 1992.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1918 |
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Marion and Bluffton Traction Co. (see CERA) |
From Marion Bluffton and Eastern Traction Co. in 1914, became part of the indiana Service Corp. in 1926. |
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Marion Ry. (NY) |
Reorg. of Newark and Marion Ry., acquired by the PRR in 1930, when electrification and passenger svc. ended.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1930 |
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Marion Rys. (IN) |
Bought these isolated local lines From Indiana RR in 1933, converted to bus in 1947. |
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Maritime Ry. |
Opened in 1883, and continued exclusively insteam until 1961. |
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Marquette Houghton and Ontanagon RR |
Opened in 1872, became part of the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic Ry. in 1887. |
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Marshall and East Texas Ry. |
Opened in 1908, abandoned in 1922. |
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Maryland and Delaware Coast RR |
From Maryland Delaware and Virginia Ry. in 1924, became the Maryland and Delaware Seacoast RR in 1932. |
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Maryland and Delaware Seacoast RR |
From Maryland and Delaware Coast RR in 1932, abandoned in 1936. |
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Maryland and Pennsylvania RR |
From Baltimore and Lehigh Ry. and York Southern in 1901, abandoned in 1983. |
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Maryland Central RR |
From 1882, to Baltimore and Lehigh Ry. in 1891. |
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Maryland Delaware and Virginia Ry. |
From Queen Annes RR in 1905, split into the BandE and#43; MandDC in 1924.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1931 |
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Maryland Electric RR (see DBA: Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line RR ) |
In 1908, Maryland Electric took control and converted to electric; acquired by Washington Baltimore and Annapolis RR in 1921.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1950 |
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Mason City and Clear Lake Ry./RR |
Ry. from Mason City and Clear Lake Traction Co. (1897) in May 1904. Renamed RR under Peoples Gas control 19 Jul 1910. Became the Iowa Terminal RR in 1961.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1936 |
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |
From Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1964. |
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Massachusetts Central RR |
From 1881, to Central Massachusetts RR in 1883. |
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Mauch Chunk [Summit Hill and] Switch-Back RR |
Mule powered Opened in 1827 to 1846, abandoned in 1937.(LCandN to 1874, CNJ 1874-1929) |
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McCloud River RR |
From 1897. |
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Meadville and Cambridge Springs St. Ry. |
Opened in 1903, became part of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Ry. in 1912. |
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Medford Branch RR |
Opened in 1840, became part of the Boston and Maine RR in 1865.(BandM) |
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Memphis and Charleston RR |
Opened in 1852, became part of the Southern Ry. in 1898.(ETVandG 1889-94) |
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Memphis and Little Rock RR |
Opened in 1857, became the Little Rock and Memphis RR in 1887. |
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Memphis Dallas and Gulf RR |
From Memphis Paris and Gulf RR in 1910, became the Graysonia Nashville and Ashdown RR in 1922. |
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Memphis Paris and Gulf RR |
From 1906, became the Memphis Dallas and Gulf RR in 1910. |
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Meriden and Cromwell RR |
Opened in 1885, became the Meriden Waterbury and Connecticut River RR (NYandNE 1892-6) in 1889. |
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Meriden Waterbury and Connecticut River RR |
From Meriden and Cromwell RR in 1889, became part of the New York New Haven and Hartford RR in 1898.(NYandNE 1892-6) |
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Meridian and Memphis RR |
From 1913, to Gulf Mobile and Northern in 1923.(GMandN after 1918) |
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Mesaba Ry. |
Opened in 1912, converted to bus and abandoned in 1927 |
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Metra (dba of Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter RR) |
Reorg. of Regional Transp. Auth. in 1984; dba Metra. |
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Metro North Commuter RR |
From Conrail in 1982.(MTA) |
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Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transp. Authority (MARTA) |
1965 Transit Authority introduced rail in 1979. |
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Metropolitan Coach Lines (LA) |
Pax operations sold by Pacific Electric in 1953, taken over by the Los Angeles MTA in 1958. |
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Metropolitan Railway (Toronto) |
Northern extension of street ry. began in 1890, bacame part of Toronto and York Radial Ry. inlate 1904.(Canadian) |
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Metropolitan Transit Authority (Baltimore) |
From Baltimore Transit Co. in 1970. |
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Metropolitan Transit Authority (Boston) |
From Boston Elevated Ry. in 1948, to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 1964. |
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Metropolitan Transit Authority (Los Angeles) |
From Metorpolitan Coach Lines (with only the Long Beach line remaining) in 1958, Opened in 1961. |
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Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York) |
From Metropolitan Commuter Transp. Auth. in 1968. |
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Mexican Central Ry. |
Inc. in 1880 and completed in 1884, folded into the Natl Rys.of Mexico in 1909.(Juarez Route) |
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Mexican International RR |
Started in 1883 and comoleted in 1892, became the Natl Rys.of Mexico in 1910.(Eagle Pass Route) |
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Mexican National RR |
Opened in 1888, became the National RR Co. of Mexico in 1902.(Laredo Route) |
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Mexican Northern Ry. (FC Mexicano del Norte) |
Opened in 1891, absorbed by the NdM in 1955. |
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Mexican Ry. |
From 1868, became part of the Natl Rys.of Mexico in 1959. |
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Mexican Southern Ry. |
Opened in 1892, leased by the Interoceanic Ry. (NdM) in 1910. |
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Michigan and Ohio RR |
Opened in 1884, became part of the Cincinnati Jackson and Mackinaw RR (emerging as the DTandM in 1897) in 1887. |
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Michigan Central RR |
Opened in 1846, became part of the New York Central RR in 1930.(NYCHR-NYC 1890-1930) |
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Michigan Electric Ry. |
From Michigan United Ry. in 1923, abandoned in 1929. |
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Michigan Electric Ry. Guide |
Published in 1917. |
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Michigan Ry. (RR after 1919) |
From Michigan Traction Co. in 1900, abandoned in 1928.(leased by MU 1906-23, ME after 1923) |
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Michigan United Rys. Co. |
From amalgamation in 1906, leased to Michigan United Traction Co. in 1912(leased by MUT 1912-1916, MRy 1916-1921) |
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Michigan United Traction Co. |
Leased Michigan United Rys. from 1912 to 1916 when lease assigned to Michigan Ry. (to 1921). |
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Middleburgh and Schoharie RR (see Schoharie Valley RR) |
From 1867, abandoned in 1936.(DandH) |
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Middletown and Unionville RR |
From a Susquehanna branch in 1913, became the Middletown and New Jersey in 1947. |
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Midland Continental RR |
From 1912 to 1970. Planned from Winnipeg to Galveston but never left ND. |
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Midland Ry. |
Opened in 1901, absorbed by the Dominion Atlantic Ry. 1905. |
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Midland Terminal Ry. |
Opened in 1893, abandoned in 1949.(CCandCS 1917-9) |
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Midland Valley RR |
Opened in 1904, became part of the Texas and Pacific Ry. in 1967.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;Oct-34 |
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Mifflin and Centre County RR |
Opened in 1865, leased by the Pennsylvania RR in 1868. |
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Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Ry. |
Opened in 1897, became the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Ry. in 1913. |
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Milwaukee and Northern RR |
Opened in 1870, became part of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Ry. in 1893.(WC 1873-1882) |
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Milwaukee and Suburban Transport RR |
From The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Transport Co. in 1953, converted to bus by 1958. |
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Milwaukee Lake Shore and Western Ry. |
Opened in 1873, became part of the Chicago and North Western Ry. in 1893. |
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Milwaukee Northern Ry. (elec.) |
Opened in 1905, became part of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Transport Co. The in 1928. |
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Milwaukee Rapid Transit and Speedrail Co. |
From Kenosha Motor Coach Lines in 1949, abandoned in 1951. |
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Milwaukee Road (see CMStPandP) |
DBA of CMStPandP after 1953. |
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Mineral Range RR (see DSSandA) |
Opened in 1873, absorbed by DSSandA in 1949.(DSSandA) |
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Minneapolis and Northern RR |
From 1913, to Minneapolis Anoka and Cuyana Range RR which electrified it in 1915. |
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Minneapolis and Pacific RR |
Opened in 1886, became the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Ry. (Soo) in 1888. |
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Minneapolis and St. Louis Ry. |
Opened in 1871, absorbed by CandNW in 1960.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;20-Jul-60 |
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Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban RR (see Twin City Rapid Transit) |
Interurban subsidiary formed by TCRT in 1910, continued to operate as Twin City Lines . |
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Minneapolis Anoka and Cuyana Range RR |
From Minneapolis and Northern Ry. (steam) in 1915, abandoned in 1971.Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;1939 |
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Minneapolis Lyndale and Minnetonka RR |
Opened in 1878, became part of the Minneapolis Street Ry.(TwinCity Lines) in 1887. |
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Minneapolis Northfield and Southern RR |
From Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester and Dubuque [not] Electric Traction Co. in 1918, became part of the Soo Line RR in 1982. |
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Minneapolis Red Lake and Manitoba Ry. |
From Red Lake Transp. (1898) logging road on 28 Jun 1904, abandoned in 1938. |
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Minneapolis Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic RR |
Opened in 1884, became the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Ry. (Soo) in 1881. |
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Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Ry. |
From Minneapolis Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic RR in 1888, became the Soo Line RR in 1961.(CP) |
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Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester and Dubuque [not] Electric Traction Co. |
Opened in 1910, became the Minneapolis Northfield and Southern RR in 1918. |
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Minnesota and International Ry. |
From Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Ry. in 1901, became part of the Northern Pacific Ry. in 1941.(NP) |
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Minnesota and Northwestern RR |
Opened in 1885, became the Chicago St. Paul and Kansas City Ry. in 1888. |
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Minnesota Northwestern [not] Electric Ry. |
Opened in 1916, intended to extend to Intl Falls, abandoned in 1940. |
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Minnesota Western RR |
From Electric Short Line Ry. 1 May 1924, abandoned in 1959.(MNandS 12/1927-1956, MStL/CNW after 1956)Psgr. Svc. endedandnbsp;10-Sep-47 |
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Mississippi and Skuna Valley RR |
Opened in 1925, operating in 2011. |
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Mississippi Central RR (1855) |
Opened in 1855, became part of the New Orleans St. Louis and Chicago RR in 1874. |
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Mississippi Central RR (1904) |
Opened in 1904, became part of the Illinois Central RR in 1967. |
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Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Ry. |
Opened in 1890, became part of the Missouri-Illinois RR in 1929. |
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Missouri and Arkansas Ry. |
From Missouri and North Arkansas Ry. in 1935, split into the small short lines in 1949. |
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Missouri and Kansas RR |
Opened in 1907, abandoned in 1940. |
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Missouri and North Arkansas Ry. |
Opened in 1906, became the Missouri and Arkansas Ry. in 1935. |
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Missouri-Illinois RR |
From Illinois Southern RR in 1921, became part of the Missouri Pacific Lines in 1978. (MP after 1929) |
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Missouri Kansas and Texas Ry. |
Opened in 1869, mostly became the Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR in 1923, and the O-A-A Ry. in 1924. |
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Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR |
From Missouri Kansas and Texas Ry. in 1923, merged into MP 1989.. |
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Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf Ry. |
Opened in 1904, became the Kansas Oklahoma and Gulf Ry. in 1920. |
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Missouri Pacific RR |
Opened in 1917, merged into the Union Pacific Ry. in 1997. |
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Missouri Pacific RR (AandP) |
The Pacific RR under AandP lease, in 1874, became the Missouri Pacific Ry. in 1876. |
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Missouri Pacific Ry. |
From the Pacific RR under AandP lease, in 1876, merged with SLIMS into the Missouri Pacific RR in 1917. |
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Missouri River and Northwestern Ry. |
From Dakota Pacific in 1905, became the Rapid City Black Hills and Western in 1909 |
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Missouri Southern RR |
Opened in 1888, abandoned in 1941. |
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Mobile and Bay Shore RR |
Opened in 1900, became part of the Mobile and Ohio RR in 1904. |
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Mobile and Birmingham Ry. |
Opened in 1886, leased by the Southern Ry. in 1899.(ETVandG to 1893) |
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Mobile and Ohio RR |
Opened in 1851, merged into the Gulf Mobile and Ohio RR in 1940.(SOU 1901-38) |
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Mobile Jackson and Kansas City RR |
Opened in 1897, became the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago RR in 1910. |
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Mobile Light and RR |
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Mohawk and Malone Ry. |
From Adirondack and St. Lawrence Ry. on 22 Jun 1892, bought by the New York Central and Hudson River RR in Aug 1892 and absorbed in 1893.(NYCandHR 1892-3) |
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Monon RR |
From Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville (Monon) Ry. in 1956, became part of the Louisville and Nashville RR in 1971. |
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Monongahela Ry. |
From 1903, became part of Conrail in 1993.(PRR/PandLE) |
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Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. |
From Monongahela Power and Ry. Co. in 1923, became the City Lines of West Va. in 1944. |
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Monson RR |
From 1883 to 1943.(NG) |
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Mont Alto RR |
Part of Cumberland Valley operated separately from 1876 to 1897.(CV) |
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Montana RR |
Opened in 1896, became part of the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Ry. in 1910. |
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Montana Western RR |
Opened in 1910, became part of the Great Northern Ry. in 1969. |
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Montana Wyoming and Southern RR |
From Yellowstone Park RR in 1909, abandoned in 1953. |
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Monterey and Mexican Gulf RR |
From 1890, bankrupt by 1892, bought by the Mexican Central in 1901 |
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Montgomery and Eufala RR (Eufala Route) |
From 1860, to South-Western RR in 1869.(CBCG) |
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Montgomery County Rapid Transit |
Opened in 1907, became the Skippack and Perkiomen Transit Co. in |
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Montour RR |
Opened in 1883, became part of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR in 1975. |
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Montpelier and Barre RR |
From Barre and Chelsea RR in 1957, . |
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Montpelier and Wells River RR |
Opened 1873, became the Barre and Chelsea RR in 1944. |
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Montreal and Boston Air Line RR |
From Passumpsic RR and South-Eastern RR in 1878, disbanded in 1887. |
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Montreal and Southern Counties RR |
Opened in 1897, 1956.(GT/CN after 1911) |
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Moorefield and Virginia RR |
From Hampshire Southern RR in 1912, acquired by BandO in 1914. |
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Morgans Louisiana and Texas RR and SS Co. |
Opened in 1869, merged into TandNO (Southern Pacific Sunset Central Lines) in 1927.(TandNO after 1885) |
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Morgantown and Dunkard Valley RR |
Opened in 1910, became the Morgantown and Wheeling RR in 1913. |
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Morgantown and Kingwood RR |
Opened in 1903, acquired by the BandO in 1919 and absorbed in 1922.(BandO after 1919) |
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Morgantown and Wheeling RR |
From Morgantown and Dunkard Valley RR in 1913, became the Scotts Run RR in 1924.(Monongahela after 1921) |
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Morristown and Erie RR |
Opened in 1903, . |
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Moscow Camden and San Augustine RR |
From 1899, operating in 2011. |
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Mount Hood RR |
From May, 1906, continuing with addition of tourist trains in 2008(UP 1968-1987) |
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Mount Jewett Kinzua and Riterville RR (Kushequa Route) |
Narrow guage from 1889 to1892, remnant to BandO in 1931. |
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Mount Lowe Ry. |
Became part of the Pacific Electric Ry. in 1902. |
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Mount Mansfield Electric RR |
Opened in 1898, abandoned in 1932. |
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Mount McGregor RR |
From Saratoga Mt. McGregor and Lake George RR in 1889, became the Saratoga and Mt. McGregor RR in 1897. |
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Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Ry. |
From Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Ry. in 1913, abandoned in 1930. |
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Mount Vernon and Pan-Handle Route (see Cleveland Akron and Columbus Ry.) |
dba of Cleveland Akron and Columbus RR |
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Mount Washington Ry. |
Opened in 1867, . |
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Muncie and Portland Traction Co. |
Opened in 1906, became part of the Union Traction Co. in 1916. |
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Muncie Hartford and Fort Wayne Ry. |
Opened in 1903, became part of the Union Traction Co. in 1906. |
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Municipal Railway of San Francisco |
From a takeover of the Geary St. line in 1912, operating as a transit authority as of 2011. |
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Munising Marquette and Southeastern RR |
Opened in 1911, became part of the Lake Superior and Ishpeming RR in 1924. |
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Muscatine Burlington and Southern RR |
From Muscatine North and South RR in 1916, cut back to a switching terminal (Burlington Muscatine and Northwestern) in 1925. |
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Muscatine North and South RR |
Opened in 1899, became the Muscatine Burlington and Southern RR in 1916. |
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Muscle Shoals Birmingham and Pensacola RR |
From Gulf Florida and Alabama in 1922, absorbed by SLSF in 1928. |
