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Trains portal; This category relates to: Railway companies that are no longer operating under their own name (known as "fallen flags" in the US). They may have been purchased by other railroads, gone bankrupt, or been merged; and
ASLR locomotive Grand Trunk locomotive in 1859 Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande. Missouri Pacific Locomotive #152 Vauclain compound locomotive, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
The Southern San Luis Valley Railroad is a fallen flag shortline railroad that was located in Southern Colorado. [1] Best known in its final years of operation, it served a connection with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad at Blanca, Colorado. [2] The diminutive railroad in its final form was approximately 1.53 miles (2.46 km) in length.
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad, was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with New York City, a distance of 395 miles (636 km).
Led RR commission to encourage railroads and street railways where trains or cars followed each other in quick succession to implement a signalling block system [65] 1906 Cimarron River bridge disaster, Dover, Oklahoma; 4 confirmed fatalities plus scores unaccounted for [66] 1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Atlantic City, New Jersey; 53 killed.
The Central Vermont Railway at George Elwood's Fallen Flags site; Picturing the Past: The Central Vermont Railway - includes many railway photos Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine; Mamacoke Company Portal to Central Vermont Railway Archives Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States–based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1995.