Defunct Railroads
Name | Mark | System | From | To | Successor | Notes |
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Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railway | RF&P | 1872 | 1890 | Baltimore and Potomac Railroad | ||
Alexandria and Washington Railroad | RF&P | 1854 | 1872 | Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railway | ||
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | B&O, BO | B&O | 1831 | 1987 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad | PRR | 1867 | 1902 | Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad | ||
Chesapeake Beach Railway | 1896 | 1935 | East Washington Railway | |||
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | C&O, CO | C&O | 1891 | 1987 | CSX Transportation | |
Consolidated Rail Corporation | CR | 1976 | 1999 | CSX Transportation/Norfolk Southern Railway | ||
East Washington Railway | 1935 | 1976 | N/A | |||
Georgetown Barge, Dock, Elevator and Railway Company | B&O | 1888 | 1972 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | ||
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad | SOU | 1872 | 1872 | Virginia and North Carolina Railroad | ||
Penn Central Transportation Company | PC | 1968 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | ||
Pennsylvania Railroad | PRR | PRR | 1918 | 1968 | Penn Central Transportation Company | |
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad | PRR | 1902 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | ||
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad | PRR | 1891 | 1902 | Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad | ||
Richmond and Danville Railroad | SOU | 1886 | 1894 | Southern Railway | ||
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad | RF&P, RFP | RF&P | 1920 | 1991 | Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway | |
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway | RFP | 1991 | Still exists as a subsidiary of CSX Transportation | |||
Southern Railway | SOU | SOU | 1894 | 1990 | Norfolk Southern Railway | |
Southern Maryland Railroad | 1882 | 1886 | Washington and Potomac Railroad | |||
Virginia Midland Railway | SOU | 1880 | 1886 | Richmond and Danville Railroad | ||
Virginia and North Carolina Railroad | SOU | 1872 | 1873 | Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway | ||
Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad | RF&P | 1862 | 1868 | Alexandria and Washington Railroad | ||
Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad | B&O | 1873 | 1874 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | ||
Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway | SOU | 1873 | 1880 | Virginia Midland Railway | ||
Washington and Potomac Railroad | 1886 | 1900 | Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railroad | |||
Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railroad | 1901 | 1910 | Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railway | |||
Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railway | 1910 | 1918 | Chesapeake Beach Railway | |||
Washington Southern Railway | WSN | RF&P | 1901 | 1920 | Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad | |
Washington Terminal Company | WATC | B&O/ PRR | 1901 | Still exists as a subsidiary of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) | ||
Washington and Western Maryland Railroad | B&O | 1889 | 1985 | N/A |
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“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.”
—Benjamin Harrison (18331901)