List of South Dakota Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Aberdeen, Fergus Falls and Pierre Railroad 1886 1886
Belle Fourche Valley Railway 1909 1920
Black Hills Railroad 1881 1882
Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad 1882 1932
Black Hills and Missouri River Railroad 1904 1904
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway 1876 1903
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northwestern Railway 1880 1902
Cherokee and Dakota Railroad 1887 1888
Chicago and North Western Railway 1859 1972
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1855 1970
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway 1901 1907
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway 1909 1912
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 1872 1928
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of South Dakota 1906 1908
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Washington 1906 1909
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway 1880 1948
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway 1880 1972
Dakota Central Railway 1879 1900
Dakota Southern Railroad 1872 1879
Dakota and Great Southern Railway 1883 1886
Dakota, Wyoming and Missouri River Railroad 1891 1903
Deadwood Central Railroad 1888 1936
Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad 1860 1946
Duluth, Watertown and Pacific Railway 1885 1907
Fairmount and Veblen Railway 1912 1915
Fargo and Southern Railway 1881 1885
Forest City and Gettysburg Railroad 1900 1904
Forest City and Sioux City Railroad 1888 1896
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad 1869 1903
Grand Island and Wyoming Central Railroad 1886 1897
Great Northern Railway 1889 1970
Illinois Central Railroad 1851 1972
James River Valley and North Western Railway 1909 1920
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad 1894 1944
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway 1870 1894
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway 1888 1944
Minnesota and South Dakota Railway 1899 1900
Minnesota, Dakota and Pacific Railway 1905 1912
Missouri River and North Western Railway 1904 1909
Pierre and Fort Pierre Bridge Railway 1905 1920
Pierre, Rapid City and North-Western Railway 1905 1920
Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad 1909 1948
Rapid City, Missouri River and St. Paul Railroad 1891 1905
Sioux City and Dakota Railroad 1879 1881
Sioux City and Northern Railroad 1887 1900
Sioux City and Pembina Railway 1876 1879
Sioux Falls Terminal Railroad 1890 1900
Sioux Falls and Manitoba Railway 1902 1903
Sioux Falls, Yankton and South Western Railway 1889 1893
South Dakota Central Railway 1903 1916
South Dakota Western Railway 1890 1891
South Sioux Falls Railroad and Rapid Transit Company 1888 1890
Southern Minnesota Railway 1877 1880
Southern Minnesota Railway Extension Company 1878 1880
St. Paul and Dakota Railroad 1876 1878
St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad 1870 1881
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway 1879 1907
Watertown and Sioux Falls Railway 1916 1928
White River Valley Railway 1905 1910
Willmar and Sioux Falls Railway 1886 1907
Winona and St. Peter Railroad 1862 1900
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railroad 1894 1920
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railway 1883 1894
Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad 1878 1879
Wyoming and Missouri River Railroad 1895 1924
Yankton and Western Railway 1890 Unknown