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Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.
San Francisco and Oakland Railroad; San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad; San Pedro via Dominguez Line; San Pedro via Gardena Line; Santa Ana Line; Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Line; Santa Ana–Orange Line; Santa Monica Air Line; Sawtelle Line; Schuylkill Branch; Shorb Line; Sierra Madre Line; Sierra Vista Line; Silverton, Gladstone and ...
It ran from Army Street (Now Cesar Chavez Street) and Potrero to a terminal inside Fort Mason, via Potrero, Division, 11th Street and Van Ness. In 1946 the line was extended along former Market Street Railway trackage on Bayshore and San Bruno to Arleta. The southern terminal was cut back to San Bruno and Wilde in 1947, and in 1948 the northern ...
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.
The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...
Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railroad (formerly Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad) - under the latter name graded 2 miles of line near Little Rock 1907, [325] but then re-organised and consolidated several lumber railroads in 1910 with the intention of forming a bridge route by building from Memphis to Murfreesboro and from the Chicago, Rock Island ...
They may have been purchased by other railroads, gone bankrupt, or been merged; and; Railway lines that have closed for use, usually being removed and sometimes obscured. There are a range of terms that are synonymous, including: closed railways, former railways
S. Sacramento Southern Railroad; Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railway; Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad; Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–1877) San Bernardino and Eastern Railway