List of North American Railroad Companies
This list of North American railroad companies includes existing public railroad companies in North America .
Railway companies that no longer exist can also be found on the list of former North American railway companies .
Belize
Costa Rica
- Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles (INCOFER)
- Pacific Electric Railroad predecessor of Incofer
Dominican Republic
- Ferrocarril La Romana mine train
- Ferrocarriles Azucareros ex-state railway, today remaining routes for sugar cane transport
- Ferrocarril Metropolitano de Santo Domingo Metro in Santo Domingo
El Salvador
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de El Salvador (FENADESAL)
Guatemala
- International Railways of Central America (IRCA)
- Ferrocarriles de Guatemala (FEGUA) until 1996
- Ferrovías Guatemala company dissolved
Haiti
- Chemin de fer National Haïtien (CFH) company dissolved around 1980
- Chemin de fer Nord Haïtien (CFN) short train from Cap Haïtien, long shut down
- Chemin de fer du Cul-de-Sac (CFCS) company dissolved in 1996
Honduras
- Ferrocarril Nacional de Honduras (FNH)
- Vaccaro Railway in FNH and shut down
- Tela Railroad in FNH and partially shut down
Jamaica
- Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) completely shut down
- Kaiser Bauxite Mining Company operates a freight railway at May Pen
Canada
According to the Railway Association of Canada (RAC) industry association, the public railroad companies in Canada are listed.
Class 1 - Railway companies
Shortline and Regional Railway Companies
Passenger companies
Local transport companies
- Agence métropolitaine de transport
- Capital Railway
- GO transit
- Toronto Terminals Railway
- West Coast Express
Tourist railways
- Alberta Prairie Railway
- Great Canadian Railtour
- South Simcoe Railway
- White Pass and Yukon Railway (WP&YR)
- Rocky Mountaineer
Cuba
- Unión de los Ferrocarriles de Cuba (UFC, also known as Ferrocuba or FCC)
- Ferrocarril del Azucar (FERROAZUC) company dissolved
- Ministério del Azúcar (MINAZ) in the process of dissolution
As part of the restructuring of UFC, new companies for freight and sugar transport are being set up.
Mexico
- Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab (FCCM)
- Ferrocarril Méxicano (Ferromex)
- Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM), formerly Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM)
- Ferrosur
- Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de México (Ferrovalle, TFVM)
- Ferrocarril Coahuila Durango (Linea Coahuila Durango - LFCD)
- Ferrocarriles Peninsulares del Noroeste (FPN)
- Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec
Nicaragua
- Ferrocarril del Pacifico de Nicaragua company dissolved
- Nicaragua Sugar-Estados Company dissolved
Panama
- Panama Railway Company
- Chiriqi National Railroad Company dissolved in 2008
Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad Government Railways company dissolved
- Trinidad Urban Railway Company's new S-Bahn in Port of Spain (under construction)
United States of America
As of December 31, 2009, there were 565 public railroad companies operating goods transportation in the United States . According to the classification of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) there are 7 class 1 companies, 23 regional railroads , 339 local railroads , 194 shunting companies and two Canadian companies (CN and CP).