=============================================================================== THE FAMILY TREE OF NORTH AMERICAN RAILROADS =============================================================================== This is a compiled chart of major North American railroad mergers, most since WWII. Railroad names represent the railroad handling part or the corporate entity, if different. All information is correct to the best of my knowledge. By major, I am limiting the chart to Class 1, Former Class 1, or major reigional lines. Drop me a line with corrections or additions. [] = parent corporate entity {} = holding company which preserved the "feel" of its predecesor roads () = common name of railroad -> = name change PASSENGER---------------------------------------------------------------------- '71 most intercity US passenger operations -> National Rail Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) / Southern {passenger}/'79 Denver and Rio Grande Western {passenger}/'83 Chicago Rock Island and Pacific {passenger}/'79 long distance Canadian Pacific and Canadian National passenger operations -> VIA Rail Canada EASTERN US--------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Maryland\ \ Baltimore & Ohio->Chessie System\ Chesapeake & Ohio/ \ Pere Marquette/ \ Hocking Valley/ | >CSX Seaboard Air Line\'67 |Transportation Atlantic Coast Line >Seaboard Coast Line\ |[CSX Clinchfield-\ / Corporation] Atlanta & West Point-| / | Georgia Railroad-| Seaboard System/ / Western Railway of Alabama->(Family Lines)-^ / Loisville and Nashville-| / Chicago and Eastern Illinois {part}-/ / Louisville and Nashville/ / / / Monon/ / / Pittsburgh and Lake Erie/'93 Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac {Chessie}/'93 The Buffalo Creek Railroad Company\ Central Indiana Railway Company-\ \ Lehigh and New England Railway Company\ | Mount Hope Mineral Railroad Company >Central Railroad | Wharton and Northern Railroad Company/ of New Jersey--| | The Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Company--| | Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company\ | Erie Railroad Company >Erie Lackawanna | Railway Company--| >Consolidated Rail Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railway Company--| Corporation The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company--| (Conrail) Lehigh Valley Railroad Company--| | Niagara Junction Railway Company--| | | | Baltimore and Eastern \ | | Railroad Company-\ | | Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago \ | | and St.Louis Railway--| | | Michigan Central Railroad--| | | The New York Central Railroad Company--| | | The New York New Haven and >Penn Central | | Hartford Railroad Company--| Transportation Company--| | The Pennsylvania Railroad Company--| | | Peoria & Eastern Railway--/ | | Waynesburg and Washington / | | Railroad Company/ | | / | Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines-/ / Reading Company/ / / Monongahela/'93 Wheeling and Lake Erie\ \ New York Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate)\ Wabash\ Virginian\ Pittsburgh & West Virginia\ Akron Canton & Youngstown\ \ Norfolk & Western\ >Norfolk Southern Corporation Southern/ Norfolk Southern/ Central of Georgia/ Georgia and Florida/ Alabama & Georgia Southern/ Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas/ Florida East Coast MIDWEST------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gulf Mobile & Ohio\ Alton->Illinois Central Gulf -> Illinois Central Illinois Central/ MidSouth\ \ Kansas City Southern Chicago Great Western\ Chicago and Northwestern Railway->Chicago and Northwestern Minneapolis & St. Louis/ Wisconsin Central Fox Valley & Western/ Green Bay & Western/ Fox River Valley/ Missabe and Iron Range /Southern Pacific Chicago Rock Island & Pacific {bankrupt}< \ Chicago Terre Haute and Southeastern\'28 \ Chicago St Paul and Omaha (Milwaukee Road)\ Minneapolis, Northfield, & Southern\ Sault Sainte Marie Saint Paul and Pacific (Soo)\ Delaware and Hudson >{CP Rail System} [CP Limited] WESTERN US--------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas and Pacific\ \ Missouri Pacific\'82 Western Pacific\'82 Missouri-Kansas-Texas\'88 Chicago and Eastern Illinois {part}\ \ Union Pacific Denver and Rio Grande Western\ Saint Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)\ Texas & New Orleans\ \ Southern Pacific Fort Worth and Denver\ Colorado and Southern\ \ Burlington-\ Great Northern-->Burlington Northern Northern Pacific-/ / Spokane Portland and Seattle/'70 / / / Oregon Electric/ Frisco/'80 Atcheson & Topeka\ Sante Fe > Atcheson Topeka & Santa Fe -> Sante Fe Detroit and Toledo Short Line\ Detroit Toledo and Ironton\'81 \ Grand Trunk Western >{CN North America} NORTHEAST---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston and Maine\ Maine Central->Guliford Transportation Springfield Terminal/ Central Vermont -- see CN Rail in Canada Delaware and Hudson -- see CP Rail America in Midwest Bangor and Aroostook CANADA------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada & Gulf Terminal\ Central Vermont\ \ Grand Trunk\ \ Northern Alberta\ \ Temiscouata\ \ Canadian Southern {part}\80's \ Grand Trunk Pacific\ \ Intercolonial Railway\ Newfoundland Railway\ \ National Transcontinental >Canadian Government Railways\ \ \ Railway/ >Canadian National \ Canadian Northern/ Railways -> CN Rail / Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific/ Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo\late 60's Esquimalt and Nanaimo\ Quebec Central\ Grand River\ Lake Erie and Northern\ Canada Southern {part}\80's Ontario & Quebec\ Campbellford\50s Lake Ontario & Western \ Dominion Atlantic\ 1870's Canadian Pacific -> CP Rail [CP Limited] \ \Canadian Atlantic [CP Limited] Pacific Great Eastern -> British Columbia Railway -> BC Rail Algoma Central Temiskaming & Northern Ontario -> Ontario Northland Quebec North Shore & Labrador MEXICO------------------------------------------------------------------------- National of Mexico (NdeM)\ Ferrocarril Pacifico->Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (FNM) Chihuahua Pacific/ FCM )Mexican Railway) ===============================================================================