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Why are some RR's bolded and others are not? --Jiang

Just to confuse people. ;-)
Actually, it's for railroads that are currently operating, but I had forgotten to put that in until you mentioned it. --rj

Would it be clearer to say that UP is the oldest railroad continuously operating under its current name? Predecessors of CSX (the B&O) and CP (D&H) are clearly older, so these railroads could claim to be older companies. -- MHS

UP is not the oldest railroad continuously operating under its current name. That honor falls to the Long Island Rail Road, founded a good 20 years earlier.
The UP is the oldest Class 1 railroad, however, and the oldest to still be independent (LIRR is owned by the New York MTA). --Morven 18:21, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Moved this page to the new title List of North American Railroads to follow Wikipedia convention to call lists 'List of ...' and because it's not United States railroads since we list Canadian too. --—Morven 23:00, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Moved to List of United States railroads as this is the intent of the page. All railroads listed operate in the United States. All linked pages refer to the United States. Any purely Canadian roads should be removed but I didn't see any. Rmhermen 23:22, Jan 5, 2004 (UTC)
Ah, the wording about the Canadian/Mexican railroads listed made it rather unclear. Fixed for clarity. —Morven 00:57, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Division into existing/historical

I am of the opinion that railroad names in active use should be considered "Existing" even if owned by another entity. I'm thinking in particular about the Long Island Rail Road, which although owned by the New York MTA still operates under its own unique name. I've placed it back in the existing category.

By this I do not include names that only exist in that locomotives/cars still carry the reporting marks. I'm talking about actually operating under the subsidiary name. E.g. the use by NS of the "PRR" reporting mark, or the CSX use of "NYC", don't count as those railroads still actually operating. —Morven 22:26, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

Maintenance issues

Would it be easier to have former railroads be a link to a category? It would have the same results but be easier to maintain. -User:SPUI

That would depend on what we think this page should be. As it is, this page can be used as a list of articles that still need to be written. slambo 23:53, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
Eh, there are so many that it doesn't seem like they'll all be listed anyway unless an approach of going from the other end (like I'm doing for Florida by looking in the state laws) is taken. --SPUI 00:03, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Isolated railroads

Is this supposed to be a list of common carriers, or should railroads like the ones in Walt Disney World be added? Something should also be added about subway systems etc not being included; not sure what exactly. --SPUI 00:03, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Adding short lines

I've gotten up to H in [1]. I realize some are in Canada or Mexico; I'll move those once I'm done. --SPUI 02:20, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) By the way, are the EJ&E and FEC really Class 1? They're both in the ASLRRA - I can see the FEC, but the EJ&E? I guess it's a high traffic area, so it's possible.--SPUI 02:21, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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