Train Symbols
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Class I Railroads

Large railroads with revenue greater than $500 million
Railroad Train Symbol Count
BNSF 5,168
Canadian National 1,408
CPKC 798
CSXT 3,121
Norfolk Southern 2,225
Union Pacific 2,639

Class III Railroads

Small (Shortline) railroads with revenue less than $40 millon
Railroad Train Symbol Count
Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway 10
Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway 8
Alabama and Tennessee River Railway 5
Ann Arbor 0
Arkansas Oklahoma Railroad 0
Ashland Railway 0
Bay Line Railroad 3
Belt Railway of Chicago 13
Berkshire Eastern Railroad 28
Buckingham Branch Railroad 12
California Northern Railroad 0
Camp Chase Railroad 0
Carolina Coastal Railway 6
Central Maine and Quebec Railway 2
Central New York Railroad 0
Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad 0
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad 2
Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad 11
Cimarron Valley Railroad 0
Cincinnati Eastern Railroad 0
Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad 2
Columbia Basin Railway 0
Columbus & Ohio River Railroad 1
Commonwealth Railway 0
Connecticut Southern 5
Conrail Shared Assets Operations 32
Dakota Missouri Valley & Western 8
Dakota Northern Railroad 0
Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad 8
Delmarva Central Railroad 7
East Penn Railroad 0
Elkhart & Western Railway 0
Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad 3
Fox Valley & Lake Superior Rail System 12
Georgia Central Railway 10
Georgia Southern Railway 0
Grand Elk Railroad 10
Great Lakes Central Railroad 6
Heart of Georgia Railroad 0
Housatonic Railroad Company 4
Huron & Eastern Railway 10
Indiana & Ohio Railway 35
Indiana Harbor Belt 26
Indiana Northeastern Railroad 0
Kanawha River Railroad 2
Kankakee, Beaverville, & Southern 0
Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad 10
Kansas City Terminal 1
Keokuk Junction Railway 0
Livonia, Avon & Lakeville 1
Louisville and Indiana 8
Mahoning Valley Railway 0
Marquette Rail 3
Maryland Midland 3
Michigan Shore Railroad 1
Mid-Michigan Railroad 1
Middletown & New Jersey Railroad 0
Minnesota Commercial Railway 0
Minnesota Northern Railroad 0
Napoleon Defiance & Western Railroad 0
New England Central Railroad 7
New Mexico Rail Runner Express 0
Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad 2
Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line 2
North County Transit District 0
Northern Ohio & Western Railroad 0
Northern Plains Railroad 0
Ohio Central Railroad 5
Ohio Southern Railroad 0
Pere Marquette 0
Portland and Western Railroad 27
Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad 0
Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad 23
Red River Valley & Western Railroad 0
RJ Corman (Cleveland Line) 0
RJ Corman (Nashville & Eastern) 6
RJ Corman (Western Ohio Lines) 0
Rochester & Southern Railroad 0
San Joaquin Valley Railroad 0
San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad 3
Seminole Gulf Railway 0
Sierra Northern Railway 0
South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad 8
Spokane Portland & Seattle 0
St. Lawrence & Atlantic 3
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis 2
Texas Pacifico Railroad 0
Timber Rock Railroad 0
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway 12
Twin Cities & Western Railroad 0
Vermont Railway 13
Virginia Railway Express 29
Western New York & Pennsylvania RR 2