Defunct Railroads
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Name | Mark | System | From | To | Successor | Notes |
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Big Blackfoot Railway | MILW | 1910 | 1916 | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway | ||
Big Horn Railroad | CB&Q | 1905 | 1916 | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | ||
Big Horn Southern Railroad | CB&Q | 1888 | 1897 | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | ||
Billings and Central Montana Railway | NP | 1912 | 1921 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Billings and Northern Railroad | GN | 1902 | 1907 | Great Northern Railway | ||
Burlington Northern Inc. | BN | 1970 | 1981 | Burlington Northern Railroad | ||
Burlington Northern Railroad | BN | 1981 | 1996 | Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway | ||
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway | BA&P, BAP | 1892 | 1985 | Rarus Railway | ||
Butte, Wisdom and Pacific Railway | 1913 | 1914 | Southern Montana Railway | |||
Camp Creek Railway | NP | 1911 | 1914 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | CB&Q | CB&Q | 1894 | 1970 | Burlington Northern Inc. | |
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway | CB&Q | 1901 | 1907 | N/A | Leased the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | |
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway | MILW | 1909 | 1912 | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway | ||
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway | MILW | 1912 | 1928 | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | ||
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Montana | MILW | 1905 | 1908 | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Washington | ||
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Washington | MILW | 1908 | 1909 | Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway | ||
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | MILW | MILW | 1928 | 1982 | Burlington Northern Railroad | |
Clearwater Short Line Railway | NP | 1898 | 1914 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company | NP | 1886 | 1897 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Drummond and Philipsburg Railroad | NP | 1887 | 1888 | Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad | ||
Elliston and Southern Railroad | 1896 | N/A | ||||
Gallatin Valley Railway | MILW | 1910 | 1918 | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway | ||
Gallatin Valley Electric Railway | MILW | 1908 | 1910 | Gallatin Valley Railway | ||
Gaylord and Ruby Valley Railway | NP | 1897 | 1899 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad | NP | 1907 | 1939 | N/A | ||
Great Falls and Canada Railway | GN | 1889 | 1901 | Montana and Great Northern Railway | ||
Great Falls Terminal Railway | MILW | 1912 | 1914 | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway | ||
Great Falls and Teton County Railway | GN | 1912 | 1914 | Great Northern Railway | ||
Great Northern Railway | GN | GN | 1890 | 1970 | Burlington Northern Inc. | |
Helena, Boulder Valley and Butte Railroad | NP | 1886 | 1888 | Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad | ||
Helena and Jefferson County Railroad | NP | 1883 | 1898 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Helena and Northern Railroad | NP | 1886 | 1888 | Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad | ||
Helena and Red Mountain Railroad | NP | 1886 | 1899 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad | SOO | CP | 1944 | 1961 | Soo Line Railroad | |
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway | SOO | CP | 1913 | 1944 | Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad | |
Missoula and Bitter Root Valley Railroad | NP | 1887 | 1888 | Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad | ||
Missoula and Hamilton Railway | NP | 1911 | 1916 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Missouri River Railway | NP | 1906 | 1914 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Montana Railroad | MILW | 1894 | 1910 | Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway | ||
Montana Railway | NP | 1881 | 1898 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Montana Central Railway | GN | 1886 | 1907 | Great Northern Railway | ||
Montana Eastern Railway | GN | 1912 | 1928 | Great Northern Railway | ||
Montana and Great Northern Railway | GN | 1901 | 1907 | Great Northern Railway, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway | ||
Montana Southern Railway | 1917 | 1940 | N/A | |||
Montana Southern Railway | NP | 1893 | 1897 | Gaylord and Ruby Valley Railway | ||
Montana Union Railway | NP | 1886 | 1898 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Montana Western Railway | MWRR | 1986 | 2003 | Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway | ||
Montana Western Railway | 1909 | 1970 | Burlington Northern Inc. | |||
Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railroad | MW&S, MWS | 1909 | 1955 | N/A | ||
Northern Pacific Railroad | NP | 1864 | 1896 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Northern Pacific Railway | NP | NP | 1896 | 1970 | Burlington Northern Inc. | |
Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad | NP | 1888 | 1898 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Oregon Short Line Railroad | UP | 1897 | 1987 | Union Pacific Railroad | ||
Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway | UP | 1889 | 1897 | Oregon Short Line Railroad | ||
Rarus Railway | RARW | 1985 | 2007 | Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway | ||
Rocky Fork and Cooke City Railway | NP | 1886 | 1898 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Rocky Mountain Railroad of Montana | NP | 1881 | 1898 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway | GN | 1879 | 1907 | Great Northern Railway | ||
Shields River Valley Railway | NP | 1908 | 1914 | Northern Pacific Railway | ||
Soo Line Railroad | SOO | CP | 1961 | Still exists in Montana as a lessor of the Dakota, Missouri Valley and Western Railroad | ||
Southern Montana Railway | 1914 | 1917 | Montana Southern Railway | |||
Utah and Northern Railway | UP | 1878 | 1889 | Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway | ||
White Sulphur Springs and Yellowstone Park Railway | WSYP | MILW | 1910 | 1980 | N/A | |
Yellowstone Park Railroad | 1905 | 1909 | Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railroad |
- Electric
- Amador Railway
- Anaconda Copper Mining Company (Electric Light and Railway Department)
- Bozeman Street Railway
- Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway (BA&P, BAP)
- Butte Consolidated Railway
- Butte Electric Railway
- Gallatin Light, Power and Railway Company
- Gallatin Valley Railway
- Gallatin Valley Electric Railway
- Great Falls Street Railway
- Helena Light and Railway Company
- Helena Light and Traction Company
- Not completed
- Montana Railway
- North and South Railway
Read more about this topic: List Of Montana Railroads
Famous quotes containing the words defunct and/or railroads:
“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)
“We noticed several other sandy tracts in our voyage; and the course of the Merrimack can be traced from the nearest mountain by its yellow sand-banks, though the river itself is for the most part invisible. Lawsuits, as we hear, have in some cases grown out of these causes. Railroads have been made through certain irritable districts, breaking their sod, and so have set the sand to blowing, till it has converted fertile farms into deserts, and the company has had to pay the damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)