Union Railroad

The following railroads have been named Union Railroad or Union Railway, usually because they connected or merged several other railroads. See joint railway for the concept of a railroad owned by more than one company.

Freight carriers
  • Union Railroad (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 1889-present
  • Union Railroad (Illinois), 1852-1881, predecessor of the Michigan Central Railroad (New York Central system)
  • Union Railroad of Baltimore (Maryland), 1866-1976, predecessor of the Pennsylvania Railroad
  • Union Railroad (Massachusetts freight railway), 1848-1854, predecessor of the Boston and Albany Railroad (New York Central system)
  • Union Freight Railroad, 1872-1970, part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad system in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Union Railroad (Onondaga County, New York), 1856-1858, predecessor of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
  • Union Railroad (Rockland County, New York), 1851-1946, predecessor of the Erie Railroad
  • Union Railroad (Ohio), 1858-1860, predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • Union Railroad of Oregon, 1927-1993
    • Union Railway (Oregon), 1890-1906, predecessor of the above
  • Union Railway (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 1883-1888, belt line
  • Union Railway (Memphis, Tennessee), belt line
Street railways
  • Union Railway (Bronx) in New York City
  • Union Railroad (Brooklyn) in New York City
  • Union Railroad (Massachusetts street railway) in the Boston area
  • Union Railroad (Missouri) in St. Louis
  • Union Railway (Missouri) in St. Joseph
  • Union Railway (Pennsylvania) in Chester
  • Union Railroad (Rhode Island) in Providence
  • Union Railroad (Washington) in Washington, D.C.

The following railroads had Union Railroad or Union Railway in their names:

  • Attalla Union Railway, street railway in Gadsden, Alabama
  • Baltimore Coal and Union Railroad, part of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad system
  • Binghamton, Lestershire and Union Railroad, a street railway between Binghamton, New York and Union, New York, now a part of Endicott, New York.
  • Chattanooga Union Railway, Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • Channel Tunnel Rail Link (High Speed 1), Kent, England
  • Dayton and Union Railroad, Union City, Indiana to Dodson, Ohio
  • Dayton Union Railway, Dayton, Ohio
  • Delaware River and Union Railroad, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, owned by Sun Oil
  • Des Moines Union Railway, Des Moines, Iowa
  • Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Company, Detroit, Michigan
  • Fort Wayne Union Railway, Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Fremont, Lima and Union Railway, Fremont, Ohio to Rushville, Indiana via Union City, Indiana
  • Gadsden and Attala Union Railroad, street railway in Gadsden, Alabama
  • Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, Chicago to Clinton, Iowa
  • Indianapolis Union Railway, belt line around Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Jacques Cartier Union Railway
  • Kentucky Union Railway, Lexington to Jackson, Kentucky
  • Lafayette Union Railroad
  • Minneapolis Union Railway, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Montana Union Railway, Butte to Garrison, Montana
  • Northwestern Union Railroad, Milwaukee to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
  • Ogden Union Railway and Depot, Ogden, Utah
  • Peoria and Pekin Union Railway, Pekin to Peoria, Illinois
  • Portland Union Railway Station, Portland, Maine
  • Rock River Valley Union Railroad, state line to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
  • Spartanburg and Union Railroad, Alston to Spartanburg, South Carolina
  • State Line and Union Railroad, Genoa, Illinois to Columbus, Wisconsin
  • Troy Union Railroad and Depot, Troy, New York
  • Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway
  • Union Pacific Railroad, the largest railroad in the United States
  • Union Railroad Transfer and Stock Yards Company, a belt line around Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Union Railway and Terminal Company, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Union Railway and Transit Company, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Western Union Railroad, Racine, Wisconsin to Savannah and Port Byron
  • Wisconsin Union Railroad, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Illinois state line

Famous quotes containing the words union and/or railroad:

    “The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.”
    —Henry George (1839–1897)

    “... no other railroad station in the world manages so mysteriously to cloak with compassion the anguish of departure and the dubious ecstasies of return and arrival. Any waiting room in the world is filled with all this, and I have sat in many of them and accepted it, and I know from deliberate acquaintance that the whole human experience is more bearable at the Gare de Lyon in Paris than anywhere else.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)