Western Railroad

The following railroads have been known as Western Railroad or Western Railway:

  • Western Railroad (Texas) of New Braunfels
  • Western Railroad of Alabama
  • Western Railway of Alabama
  • Western Railway of Arizona
  • Western Railway of Florida
  • Western Railroad (Massachusetts), 1833-1867, predecessor of the Boston and Albany Railroad
  • Western Railroad of Minnesota
  • Western Railroad (North Carolina), 1852-1879, predecessor of the Southern Railway
  • Rutland Railway
  • Western Railway Zone (India)
  • West railway of Austria
  • Western Railways and Light Company (a holding company for street railways in the U.S. Midwest)

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or railroad:

    “Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
    —Harriet Tubman (1821–1913)