Miscellaneous - "C"

Cadillac & Lake City (CLK)

Carbon Limestone Company

Catskill Mountain RR

Connersville & New Castle Railroad - CNUR

Cahokia Marine

Cairo Terminal

Before being sold to the Pioneer Railways, Cairo Terminal ran near Cairo, Illinois on 10 miles of former NYC and GM&O trackage. Power was two former Conrail SW1's. May, 1990 - Kam Miller

Calera & Shelby

California Northern (CFNR)

California Rail Service (CRS)

California Southern

California Western (CWRR)

Calumet & Hecla

Camas Prairie (CSP)

Cambria and Indiana (CI)

Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe

Camp Chase (CCRA)

CANAC International (CNLX CANX )

Canac is a private firm offering railroad consulting services and rail technology products. Their Montreal branch is located in Lachine (west suburb) next to the CN Taschereau yard.

Canada Crushed Stone

Canada Southern

Canadian American RR (CDAC)

Canadian Atlantic Railway

Canadian Northern Railway

Canadian Expo Train

Canadian Refractories Ltd

Canton RR (CTN)

Caney Fork & Western (CFWR)

Canton Carthage

Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia (CBNS)

Cape Cod Railroad

Cape Cod Model Railroad

Cape Cod Hyannis Railroad

Cape May Seashone Line

Carbon Limestone Co

Carnegie-IL Steel Corp

Carolina Coastal

Carolina & NW

Carolina Piedmont ( CPDR )

Carolina Power & Light

Carolina Southern

Carolina Western

Carrollton, Oneida and Minerva Railroad

Carthage, Knightstown & Shirley (CKSI)

Cartier

Casteel

Castro Point RY

Catskill Mountain RR

Champion

Charlotte Southern

Carbon County RR (CBC)

Carrolton Railroad

The Carrolton Railroad is one of Kentucky's oldest rail lines. Power for many years was supplied by the Louisville and Nashville.

Carthage, Knightstown & Shirley

Cascade & Columbia River

Cassville & Exeter

CAT

Cayon City RR

CBRX

CCNE

CE

Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CIC)

CRN

Cedar River RR (CEDR)

Central California Traction (CCT)

Central Columbiana & Pennsylvania (CQPA)

Central Indiana and Western (CEIW)

Central Kansas Railway (CKRY)

Central Michigan (CMGN)

Central Montana (CMR)

Running from Moccasin to Geraldine, MT, and formerly part of the Milwaukee.

Central New York (CNYK)

Central of Tennessee Railway & Naviagation Co (CTRN)

Part of UP.

Central Oklahoma Railfan Club

Central Oregon & Pacific (CORP)

Central Railroad of Indiana (CIND)

Central Railway of Indianapolis (CERA)

Central Texas (CTEX)

Central Valley Railroad

The first dinner train.

CFMG

CF Industries

CFWA

CGI

Chambersburg Cold Storage

Champion Landmark

Champion Molded Plast.

Chaparral Steel

Charles City Western

CHARLESTON NRHS

Charleston & Western Carolina (CWC)

Charlotte Southern (CHS)

Chattanooga and Chickamauga

This shortline runs from Chattanooga to Summerville Georgia on a portion of the old Central of Georgia route from Chattanooga to Rome.

Chattahoochee & Gulf

The Chattahoochee & Gulf are part of the Gulf & Ohio system. The CGR identification is only a stencil under the window.

Chattahoochee Locomotive

Cherokee Rail Equipment

Chesapeake Railroad

Chesapeake Beach

Chesapeake & Indiana

Chesapeake Western

Chehalis Western

Chemtron

Chesaning Central and Owaso

CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION

Interplant movement.

Chicago & Alton

Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern ( CFE )

Chicago Gravel Company

Chicago Heights Terminal (CHTT)

Now part of UP.

Chicago Rail Link (CRL)

Chicago & Illinois Western (CIW)

Chicago, Madison & Northern (CMN)

Chicago, Madison & Northern ran two separate lines in western Wisconsin. Here is Alco S6 at Viroqua, Wisconsin on the Sparta-Viroqua line, 1980, (ex-Milwaukee Road line)

Chicago, Memphis & Gulf

Chicago, Missouri & Western (CMNW)

The northern part of this railroad, a spin-off from the Illinois Central Gulf of former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio lines, became Southern Pacific, and is now UP. The southern and western lines became Gateway Western. {Kam Miller}

CM&NW was the reporting marks for the Chicago Missouri & Western. I think this actually stood for; Chicago Missouri & North Western. This was an ICG spinoff road that lasted about a year before becoming Gateway Western. I think the heritage of most of GWWR power was; GP38s Penn Central/Conrail, GP40s were ex Western Pacific. {Dan Bohannon]

Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee

CSTPM&O55 - Omaha Road

Chicago Rail Link (CRL)

Chicago River & Indiana RR

Chicago Short Line (CSL)

Chicago South Eastern

Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Rwy

Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority

Chippewa River

The Chippewa River was a line taking over an ex-Milwaukee Road line from Eau Claire to Durand, Wisconsin. Ex-Milwaukee Rd, Alco RSC-2 was the motive power. The line stopped when the bridge over the Chippewa River was embargoed

Cimarron River Valleyt Railway (CRVC)

Chrome Locomotive

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton

CIS

CITICORP RAILMARK (CRIX)

City of Madison

The former PRR line with the steepest grade on a mainline.

City of Port Alberni

City of Prineville (COP)

City of Winnepeg Hydro

Claremont & Concord (CLCO)

Clarendon & Pittsford (CLP)

Clark & Wilson Lumber

Cleveland Cliffs Mine

Cleveland Frog & Crossing

This plant was located just north of the EL and east of E65th St in Cleveland.

The company fabricated switch and diamond crossing for railroads. It was serviced by the Erie/EL on the south side of the plant and by the PRR on the north side.

The Whitcome 20 Tonner u refer to in your web page is actually a standard gauge locomotive and it is now painted yellow with a black frame and running gear. There is a series of standard gage tracks on the property for delivery and shippment of rr materials. One of the tracks enters their crane-shed for unloading/loading. the Whitcomb is kept inside most of the time. However, even though it is in running condition (4/15/01), the superstructure is in poor physical condition. The company dba Cleveland Track Material, Inc. since the early 90's. - Buell, Larry A - 22 Oct 2001

Locomotives

Interplant track w/connections to the Erie and PRR.

CLEVELAND TERMINAL and VALLEY RAILROAD

CL

Cliffs-Dow Chemical

Cliffside Railroad

Clinton Terminal Railroad

Cloquet Terminal

CO Bailey Co

COE Rail (CRLE)

See Coe Rail

Coffeen & Western RR

Collins & Glenville

Columbia Industrial Park

Columbia Iron & Metal

Columbia, Newberry & Laurens (CNL)

Columbus and Ohio River (CUOH)

Colorado Central

Colorado & Southeastern

The C&SE was a shortline that carried coke from Delagua and Hastings, CO to Barnes Jct., Co; about 4 miles. Thanks Bill Mahan

Colvin's Equipment Rentals

Commodity Resource Corp

Conecuh Valley (COEH)

Conrad Yelvington

Consumer Company

Consumer Power Company

Continental Grain

Continental Grain & Barge

CSPL

Colorado & Eastern

Colorado Fuel & Iron

Colorado & Northwestern

Colorado Railcar

Colorado & Wyoming (CW)

Colorado Midland

Columbia Basin Railroad (CBRW/WCRC)

Columbia & Cowlitz Railway ( CLC )

Columbus & Chattahoochee RR

Columbus Hocking Valley & Toledo (CHVT)

Columbus & Indianapolis Central Railway

Comox Logging & Railway Company

Commonweath Edison (CWEX)

Conemaugh & Black Lick (CBL)

Connecticut Central RR (CCCL)

Connecticut DOT

Connecticut Southern (CSOR)

Connecticut Valley

Conrad Yelvington Distributors (CYDZ)

Cooksville Brick

Coos Bay

Copperwell Steel

Corn Industries

CONAGRA

Conti Carriers Terminals

Continental Agri

Continental Grain

Contrack

Council Bluffs RR

Cookstown Brick

COOP

Coors

Coos Bay Railroad

Copper Basin Railway (CBRY)

Copper Range RR

Copperweld Steel

Copperweld had three separate 36" operations. The two Baldwin's stayed on one (melt shop) later supplemented by a GE. A Whitcomb #4, a/k/a #427 a/k/a #035 was at another operation and a Vulcan was at the third. The Vulcan operation ended prior to 1964. Copperweld is now out of business and nearly all rail has been removed.

Cooper Bessmer

Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley (CACV)

Corn Industries

Cornwall

Cornwall Street Railway

Coronado RR

Corpus Christi Terminal RR (CCTR)

Corydon Scenic RR

Cotton Plant & Fargo (CPF)

Another of the shortline in Arkansas I visited while stationed there. This line operated 6 miles of track between Cotton Plant AR and Fargo AR where it interchanged with the St. Louis Southwestern Ry.

These photos were taken in Cotton Plant.

Cotton Producers Association (CPA)

The Cotton Producers Association built a new plant in Valdosta GA while I was there in 1967-68. The unit was purchased to move the cars around the plant.

Coudersport & Port Allegany

Council Bluffs Railway

Countrymark

Crab Orchard & Egyptian (COER)

The Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad is a somewhat unique shortline railroad. The CO&E is known for being the last common carrier railroad in the United States to use steam locomotives EXCLUSIVELY to haul revenue freight. (This was done from October 18, 1977 until September 8, 1986, utilizing two locomotives). The CO&E started out using a lightly used branch of the Illinois Central out of Carbondale, Illinois to Marion, Illinois.

The CO&E started out as a tourist operation May 29, 1973, using a 2-4-2T (former CIPS #5) and several passenger cars, which were old Illinois Central commuter trailer cars. By 1975, the CO&E had purchased a much larger locomotive, a 2-8-0 (former Roberval & Saguenay #17). This locomotive wasn't used in tourist service, but was a seed planted for the future.

Things made a turn for the worst June 13, 1977, when the old IC depot the CO&E was using burned to the ground, taking with it two of the CO&E's 6 passenger cars. This tragedy did away with the tourist service by October, 1978, but this turn for the worst turned out to be a second chance at running a railroad as common carrier. The first freight train hauled behind a steam locomotive on the CO&E was October 18, 1977.

The CO&E's freight service was growing, adding piggyback service December, 1978, with 200 flatcars and 600 trailers. May 10, 1979 saw the first test run of the 2-8-0, which had went through a four year overhaul and became the primary motive power of the CO&E in July, 1979.

The CO&E added several different freight cars to its roster over the next few years, including coal hoppers, covered hoppers and boxcars. All freight cars for the CO&E were lettered COER. None of them are on the current roster of the CO&E today.

Nineteen-Eighty-Six was a year that saw the end of an era for American Railroading. The drypipe inside the boiler of 2-8-0 #17 collapsed while switching coal hoppers on September 8, 1986. The eventual replacement of the 2-8-0 had already been planned with two ex-Missouri Pacific Sw1200s, which were already on the property when the drypipe let go.

Operations today are diesel powered. The CO&E has two separate lines, both former ICG branch lines. One line, the original line is located at Marion, Illinois with the headquarters of the railroad. The other line is in Herrin, Illinois.

As for the steam power the CO&E once had, both still exist. 2-4-2T #5 was rebuilt by the CO&E into ao conventional loocmotive with tender over the winter of 1973-74 and was sold in 1985 and currently resides in Jackson, MO on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railroad, a tourist operation. The StLIM&S has extensively rebuilt the 5 into a somewhat different locomotive than what she was with the CO&E. This engine is currently being rebuilt for service.

The 2-8-0 #17, was sold in early 1987 and currently resides on the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad in Boone, Iowa as a static display in very sad shape, but still lettered for her former owner.

The CO&E once had a 35 ton Davenport switcher. It has also been preserved back in her namesake hometown: Rosiclare, Illinois, proudly displayed as COER #1. - Edward Bridges

CRB&L

Creative Charters

CRG

Crome Crankshaft

Crossman Co

Crystal Car Line

C&S Railroad (CSKS)

CSAO

CSI

Cornwall Street Railway

CTCR

CTEX

Cumberland Ry & Coal Company (CRC)

Cumberland Mine RR

Cushing Stone Company

It appears to be an EMD Model 40 industrial diesel. These were built in the 1940's and had two diesel engines (Caterpillars, as I recall). I'm not sure if both axles had traction motors or if it was just one. There are now just two left in the US; the one pictured on your site and one at a quarry in Chicago. The one in Chicago has been arranged for movement to the Hoosier Valley RR Museum in North Judson, IN.

Aaron Border

Cycle Systems

Last Updated - 21 Aug 2014