List of Indiana Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
American Central Railway 1859 1899
Anderson Belt Railway 1891 1917
Anderson, Lebanon and St. Louis Railway 1871 1882
Attica and Terre Haute Railroad 1860 1872
Attica, Covington and Southern Railway 1879 1903
Auburn and Eel River Valley Railroad 1853 1853
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1827 1987
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad 1889 1949
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway 1893 1899
Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad 1876 1949
Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway 1872 1876
Bedford Belt Railway 1892 1910
Bedford Stone Railway 1901 1917
Bedford and Bloomfield Railroad 1883 1897
Bedford and Wallner Railroad 1905 1927
Bedford, Springville, Owensburg and Bloomfield Railroad 1874 1883
Bellefontaine Railway 1864 1868
Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Company 1883 Unknown
Belt Railroad and Stockyard Company 1881 1883
Belt Railroad of Indianapolis 1877 1881
Bloomfield Railroad 1874 1886
Bloomington Southern Railroad 1906 1946
Bluffton, Kokomo and Southwestern Railroad 1886 1886
Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad 1835 1837
Butler and Detroit Railroad 1880 1881
Cairo and Vincennes Railroad 1867 1880
Cairo and Vincennes Railway 1880 1881
Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway 1889 1913
Calumet River Railway 1883 1901
Canada and St. Louis Railway 1887 1889
Central Indiana Railway 1903 1976
Central Railroad of Indianapolis 1899 Unknown
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Indiana 1910 1934
Chicago Heights and Northern Railway 1897 1897
Chicago Junction Railway 1898 1958
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad 1897 1910
Chicago and Atlantic Railway 1873 1890
Chicago and Block Coal Railroad 1879 1883
Chicago and Calumet Terminal Railway 1886 1898
Chicago and Canada Southern Railway 1871 1888
Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad 1857 1902
Chicago and Dyer Railroad 1880 1880
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad 1877 1922
Chicago and Erie Railroad 1890 1941
Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway 1880 1900
Chicago and Great Eastern Railway 1863 1868
Chicago and Great Southern Railway 1881 1886
Chicago and Indiana Coal Railway 1885 1894
Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line Railway 1880 1881
Chicago and Indianapolis Terminal Company 1896 1897
Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad 1873 1879
Chicago and South Eastern Railway 1891 1903
Chicago and State Line Extension Railway 1879 1879
Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad 1898 1900
Chicago and Wabash Valley Railway 1900 1916
Chicago and West Michigan Railway 1881 1917
Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad 1866 1910
Chicago, Continental and Baltimore Railway 1871 1873
Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad 1865 1877
Chicago, Hammond and Western Railroad 1896 1898
Chicago, Indiana and Eastern Railway 1893 1917
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad 1906 1914
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway 1897 1956
Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway 1895 1938
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad 1878 1951
Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad 1883 1890
Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway 1910 1948
Cincinnati and Bedford Railway 1889 1893
Cincinnati and Chicago Air-Line Railroad 1860 1865
Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad 1854 1860
Cincinnati and Fort Wayne Railroad 1857 1866
Cincinnati and Martinsville Railroad 1865 1877
Cincinnati and Richmond Railroad 1881 1890
Cincinnati and Southern Ohio River Railway 1887 1915
Cincinnati and Southwestern Railway 1871 1872
Cincinnati and Terre Haute Railway 1871 1877
Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago Railroad 1903 1917
Cincinnati, Cambridge and Chicago Short Line Railway 1853 1854
Cincinnati, Connersville and Muncie Railroad 1868 1869
Cincinnati, Findlay and Fort Wayne Railway 1903 1919
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway 1895 1917
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railroad 1872 1902
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railroad 1915 1990
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway 1902 1915
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway 1880 1889
Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad 1870 1938
Cincinnati, Logansport and Chicago Railway 1853 1854
Cincinnati, Louisville and Vincennes Railway 1899 1899
Cincinnati, New Castle and Michigan Railroad 1853 1854
Cincinnati, Peru and Chicago Railway 1853 1865
Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad 1866 1927
Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad 1900 1903
Cincinnati, Rockport and Southwestern Railway 1872 1880
Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway 1871 1915
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 1889 1976
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway 1868 1889
Cleveland, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad 1865 1879
Cleveland, Indiana and St. Louis Railway 1882 1885
Columbus and Indiana Central Railway 1867 1868
Columbus and Indianapolis Central Railway 1864 1867
Columbus and Shelby Railroad 1852 1881
Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway 1868 1883
Columbus, Hope and Greensburg Railroad 1882 1938
Connersville and New Castle Junction Railroad 1863 1868
Crawfordsville and Rockville Railroad 1869 1871
Crawfordsville and Wabash Railroad 1846 1852
Dayton and Chicago Railway 1886 1887
Dayton and Union Railroad 1863 1989
Dayton, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway 1887 1891
Decatur and Ohio Railway 1886 1886
Delphos, Bluffton and Frankfort Railroad 1877 1879
Detroit, Butler and St. Louis Railroad 1880 1881
Detroit, Eel River and Illinois Railroad 1868 1877
Detroit, Logansport and St. Louis Railroad 1869 1870
Dinwiddie and Gary Railway Unknown 1909
East Chicago Belt Railroad 1896 1907
Eaton and Hamilton Railroad 1847 1866
Eel River Railroad 1877 1897
Elkhart and Western Railroad 1888 1915
Elwood, Anderson and Lapelle Railroad 1897 1929
Evansville Belt Railway 1881 1911
Evansville Local Trade Railroad 1879 1880
Evansville Railways Company 1909 1919
Evansville Suburban and Newburgh Railway 1888 1947
Evansville Terminal Railway 1908 1909
Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad 1853 1877
Evansville and Eastern Electric Railway 1904 1909
Evansville and Illinois Railroad 1849 1853
Evansville and Indianapolis Railroad 1869 1920
Evansville and New Harmony Railway 1881 1903
Evansville and Ohio Valley Railway 1918 1946
Evansville and Peoria Railway 1880 1880
Evansville and Richmond Railroad 1886 1897
Evansville and Richmond Railway 1897 1897
Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad 1877 1911
Evansville, Carmi and Paducah Railroad 1869 1871
Evansville, Indianapolis and Cleveland Straight Line Railroad 1853 1869
Evansville, Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railway 1920 1938
Evansville, Mt. Carmel and Northern Railway 1906 1938
Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad 1873 1877
Evansville, Rockport and Eastern Railway 1880 1881
Evansville, Terre Haute and Chicago Railway 1869 1899
Evansville, Washington and Brazil Railroad 1883 1885
Evansville, Washington and Worthington Railroad 1878 1880
Fairland, Franklin and Martinsville Railroad 1877 1915
Ferdinand Railroad 1911 1987
Ferdinand Railway 1906 1911
Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Railroad 1890 1894
Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Railway 1894 1903
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad 1852 1856
Fort Wayne and Detroit Railroad 1901 1901
Fort Wayne and Eastern Railway 1894 1894
Fort Wayne and Findlay Railroad 1890 1890
Fort Wayne and Illinois Railroad 1887 1887
Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad 1880 1976
Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad 1849 1868
Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad 1881 1890
Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad 1868 1879
Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railroad 1869 1881
Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railway 1868 1869
Fort Wayne, Terre Haute and Southwestern Railroad 1890 1901
Frankfort and Crawfordsville Railroad 1869 1871
Frankfort and Kokomo Railroad 1870 1881
Frankfort, St. Louis and Toledo Railroad 1876 1882
Franklin and Martinsville Railroad 1859 1865
Gary and Western Railway 1906 1928
Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne Railroad 1857 1857
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad 1854 1896
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway 1896 1954
Grand Rapids, Wabash and Cincinnati Railroad 1869 1871
Grand Trunk Railway of Northern Indiana 1868 1868
Grand Trunk Western Railway 1900 1928
Greenville and Miami Railroad 1846 1862
Griffith and Northern Railway 1899 1931
Hammond Belt Railway 1906 Unknown
Hammond and Blue Island Railroad 1893 1896
Hammond and Lake Michigan Railway 1887 1887
Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Railroad 1873 1887
Henderson Bridge Company 1872 1906
Henderson Bridge and Railroad Company 1906 1906
Hope and Greensburg Railroad 1880 1882
Huntingburg, Tell City and Cannelton Railroad 1885 1889
Illinois Central Railroad 1851 1972
Illinois and Indiana Railroad 1899 1906
Indiana Block Coal Railroad 1878 1899
Indiana Central Railway 1848 1864
Indiana Harbor Railroad 1901 1907
Indiana North and South Railroad 1869 1879
Indiana Northern Railway 1891 1959
Indiana Railway 1880 1887
Indiana Southern Railway 1866 1880
Indiana Stone Railroad 1898 1916
Indiana and Chicago Railway 1880 1881
Indiana and Illinois Central Railway 1853 1875
Indiana and Illinois Railway 1900 1900
Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad 1882 1890
Indiana and Lake Michigan Railway 1887 1898
Indiana and Southwestern Railway 1886 1887
Indiana and Western Railroad 1899 1899
Indiana and Western Railway 1887 1887
Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway 1879 1887
Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway 1894 1902
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad 1881 1906
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railway 1893 1898
Indianapolis Southern Railroad 1906 1911
Indianapolis Southern Railway 1899 1906
Indianapolis Union Railway 1853 1976
Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad 1848 1855
Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad 1853 1867
Indianapolis and Danville Railroad 1879 1879
Indianapolis and Evansville Railroad 1880 1884
Indianapolis and Louisville Railway 1899 1916
Indianapolis and Madison Railroad 1862 1866
Indianapolis and Ohio State Line Railway 1880 1881
Indianapolis and Sandusky Railroad 1877 1879
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad 1867 1882
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway 1882 1889
Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad 1865 1905
Indianapolis and Wabash Railway 1887 1888
Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway 1869 1879
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and La Fayette Railroad 1873 1880
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and La Fayette Railway 1867 1873
Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Danville Railroad 1868 1869
Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield Railway 1875 1887
Indianapolis, Decatur and Western Railway 1888 1894
Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad 1872 1881
Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago Railway 1864 1887
Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad 1855 1864
Indianapolis, Rochester and Chicago Railroad 1863 1867
Jeffersonville Railroad 1849 1866
Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad 1866 1890
Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad 1854 1976
Junction Railroad 1846 1908
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company 1880 1900
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Railroad Company 1900 1910
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad 1910 1981
Kingan Railroad 1873 1901
Kokomo Belt Railroad 1888 1890
Kokomo and Marion Railroad 1875 1876
La Fayette Union Railway 1890 Unknown
La Fayette and Monon Railway 1892 1897
LaFayette, Bloomington and Muncie Railway 1879 1879
LaFayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad 1869 1879
LaGrange, Toledo and Eastern Railway 1918 1920
Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad 1846 1867
Lake Erie and Fort Wayne Railroad 1904 1982
Lake Erie and Louisville Railroad 1865 1890
Lake Erie and Louisville Railway 1871 1877
Lake Erie and Pacific Railroad 1860 1865
Lake Erie and Western Railroad 1887 1923
Lake Erie and Western Railway 1879 1886
Lake Erie, Evansville and South Western Railway 1880 1880
Lake Erie, Evansville and Southwestern Railway 1871 1877
Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad 1852 1856
Lake Michigan and Ohio River Railway 1885 1885
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway 1869 1914
Lawrenceburg and Upper Mississippi Railroad 1850 1853
Lebanon and Western Railroad 1887 1887
Logansport and Northern Indiana Railroad 1853 1863
Logansport and Pacific Railroad 1853 1853
Logansport and Pacific Railway 1853 1854
Logansport and Toledo Railway 1901 1905
Logansport, Camden and Frankfort Railroad 1869 1871
Logansport, Crawfordsville and South Western Railway 1871 1879
Logansport, Peoria and Burlington Railway 1854 1858
Louisville Bridge Company 1856 1918
Louisville Bridge and Railroad Company 1918 1918
Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway 1918 1954
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge Company 1887 1917
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge and Railroad Company 1917 1968
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1850 1983
Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Consolidated Railroad 1889 1900
Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad 1886 1889
Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railway 1882 1886
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad 1859 1873
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway 1873 1897
Louisville, New Albany and Corydon Railroad 1887 2006
Louisville, New Albany and Corydon Railway 1881 1887
Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Air Line Railway 1870 1877
Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Railway 1877 1882
Madison and Indianapolis Railroad 1836 1862
Madison, Indianapolis and Peru Railroad 1854 1854
Marion and Logansport Railroad 1853 1854
Marion and Mississinewa Valley Railroad 1852 1863
Marion and Ottawa Railroad 1875 1876
Martinsville and Franklin Railroad 1846 1859
Michigan Air Line Railroad 1868 1916
Michigan Central Railroad 1846 1976
Michigan City and Indianapolis Railroad 1870 1888
Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad 1855 1869
Midland Railway 1885 1923
Mississippi and Atlantic Railway 1875 1878
Montpelier and Chicago Railroad 1889 1891
Muncie Belt Railway 1892 1938
Muncie and State Line Railroad 1879 1879
Muncie and Western Railroad 1902 1995
New Albany and Eastern Railway 1887 1888
New Albany and Salem Railroad 1847 1859
New Albany and St. Louis Air Line Railway 1869 1870
New Castle and Danville Railroad 1854 1869
New Castle and Muncie Railroad 1867 1868
New Castle and Richmond Railroad 1848 1853
New Castle and Rushville Railroad 1879 1886
New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad 1902 1983
New York Central Railroad 1853 1968
New York and Chicago Railway 1881 1881
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 1887 1964
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 1881 1887
New York, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad 1880 1881
North Western Grand Trunk Railway 1879 1880
Northern Indiana Railroad 1837 1855
Ohio Railway 1879 1894
Ohio Valley Railway 1871 1897
Ohio Valley Railway and Terminal Company 1888 1889
Ohio and Indiana Railroad 1850 1856
Ohio and Indianapolis Railroad 1853 1853
Ohio and Indianapolis Railway 1832 1849
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad 1848 1867
Ohio and Mississippi Railway 1861 1893
Ohio, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad 1880 1880
Ohio, Indiana and Pacific Railway 1881 1881
Ohio, Indiana and Western Railway 1887 1890
Orleans, Paoli and Jasper Railway 1885 1887
Orleans, West Baden and French Lick Springs Railway 1887 1897
Pendleton and Indianapolis Railroad 1846 1848
Peninsular Railroad 1869 1883
Peninsular Railway 1865 1873
Pennsylvania Company 1871 1918
Pennsylvania Railroad 1846 1968
Peoria and Eastern Railway 1890 1976
Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railway 1879 1900
Pere Marquette Railroad 1899 1917
Pere Marquette Railroad of Indiana 1903 1907
Pere Marquette Railway 1917 1947
Peru and Detroit Railway 1889 1906
Peru and Indianapolis Railroad 1846 1864
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 1917 1956
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 1890 1917
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad 1856 1861
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway 1860 1976
Plymouth, Kankakee and Pacific Railroad 1870 1881
Rantoul Railroad 1887 1903
Richmond and Miami Railroad 1846 1854
Richmond and Miami Railway 1862 1890
Rockport and Northern Central Railway 1869 1872
Rossville and Eastern Railroad 1902 1903
Rushville and Lawrenceburg Railroad 1848 1850
Rushville and Shelbyville Railroad 1844 1859
Shelby and Rush Railroad 1859 1882
South Chicago and Southern Railroad 1881 1954
South East and St. Louis Railway 1880 1936
Southern Indiana Railway 1897 1910
Southern Railway 1894 1990
Southern Railway of Indiana 1900 1944
St. Joseph Valley Railroad 1848 1889
St. Joseph Valley Railway 1889 1918
St. Joseph Valley Traction Company 1903 1918
St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern Railroad 1899 1943
St. Louis and South Eastern Railway 1872 1879
St. Louis and Southeastern Railway 1869 1872
St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad 1862 1904
St. Louis, Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad 1889 1899
State Line and Covington Railroad 1877 1877
State Line and Indiana City Railway 1887 1901
Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway 1889 1915
Syracuse and Milford Railway 1907 1923
Terre Haute and Alton Railroad 1851 1856
Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad 1865 1905
Terre Haute and Logansport Railroad 1879 1898
Terre Haute and Logansport Railway 1898 1905
Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad 1847 1865
Terre Haute and Southeastern Railroad 1878 1885
Terre Haute, Alton and St. Louis Railroad 1856 1862
Terre Haute, Worthington and Bloomfield Railway 1871 1879
Tiffin and Fort Wayne Railroad 1853 1859
Toledo and Wabash Railway 1858 1865
Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad 1881 1885
Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad 1879 1882
Toledo, Logansport and Burlington Railroad 1858 1862
Toledo, Logansport and Burlington Railway 1862 1867
Toledo, Logansport and Northern Indiana Railroad 1863 1869
Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad 1886 1900
Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad 1900 1923
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad 1856 1858
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway 1865 1876
Union Railroad, Transfer and Stock Yard Company 1876 1881
Union Track Railway 1850 1853
Union and Logansport Railroad 1863 1867
Vandalia Railroad 1905 1917
Vernon, Greensburg and Rushville Railroad 1879 1938
Vincennes and Cairo Railroad 1871 1872
Wabash Eastern Railway of Indiana 1889 1889
Wabash Railroad 1851 1915
Wabash Railway 1876 1942
Wabash Western Railway 1887 1889
Wabash and Western Railway 1858 1858
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway 1879 1886
Warsaw, Goshen and White Pigeon Railroad 1870 1871
Western Division, Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad 1848 1855
Western Indiana Railroad 1872 1872
Western Indiana Railway Unknown 1897
White River Railway 1901 1903
White Water Railroad 1878 1890
White Water Valley Railroad 1865 1878