BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE
BNSF
GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) is primarily a consolidation of the old Hill lines, the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and the Spokane Portland and Seattle which formed the Burlington Northern and then merged with the Santa Fe to become the BNSF. The BNSF operates about 25,000 route miles and about 50,000 track miles of line.

CANADIAN NATIONAL
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN
GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The Canadian National and it's United States subsidiary the Grand Trunk Western are a large system which covers Canada from coast to coast and has lines extending through the Central United States as far south as the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans and Mobile. The system comprises about 20,400 route miles, and is an extension of the old CN/GTW System into the

CANADIAN PACIFIC
GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The Canadian Pacific was the first transcontinental railroad system in Canada. In the 1990's the CP began to divest itself in lines east of Montreal and began to build a system to major US cities of Chicago and New York. It acquired the Soo Line, which had acquired the Milwaukee Road, thus gaining entrance to Chicago. CP also acquired the Delaware & Hudson giving it access to the New York area. It now controls 13,600 route miles in Canada and

CSX GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The CSX System is a conglomeration of many eastern and central US railroads with 28,629 route miles and about 37,000 track miles. The primary systems which comprise CSX were the C&O-B&O, portions of Conrail, and the Family lines system which included the old Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Louisville and Nashville, Monon, Clinchfield, NC&St.L, and many other smaller lines. CSX inherited the New York Central System portions of Conrail with certain exceptions such as the Cleveland Chicago main and the Michigan Central which went to Norfolk Southern. CSX did, however, get the old Pennsylvania Panhandle route from Pittsburgh to St. Louis.

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN
GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The Kansas City Southern is sort of an upstart in the "big" systems race. What started out as a small north-south railroad from Kansas City to Shreveport, Louisiana, and was certainly to be gobbled up in the merger mania of the 60's to the 90's, turned out to be a multi-country little giant in it's own right with over 6000 route mile and great prospects for the future. Merger with the Louisiana & Arkansas brought KCS to New Orleans, and the growth of subsidiaries to the south, Texas Mexican, and into Mexico port cities, KCS de Mexico, have given KCS access to more gulf ports and international trade. Recent additions from the Midsouth Railroad (old IC and M&O lines) have placed KCS in the race for west to east traffic from Pacific sources to N&W connections.

NORFOLK SOUTHERN
GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The Norfolk Southern began as a merger of the Norfolk & Western and The Southern back in 1982. When Conrail was split up in 1998 NS received 58% of Conrail including The Pennsy main line Philadelphia to Pittsburgh as well as most other Pennsy lines, except the Panhandle which went to CSX. NS also gained the Erie-Lackawanna, the Michigan Central and the NYC Cleveland Chicago main as well as other lines. It has resulted in a very profitable system of some 25,927 route miles in the eastern and central US as far west as Kansas City/ Other old roads in the NS system are the Nickel Plate, Wabash and Virginian.

UNION PACIFIC
GENEALOGY FROM 1930

The Union Pacific is the second large western United States system owning 26,949 miles of track and operating 32,426 miles. The current UP system is primarily a merger of the Southern Pacific and the old UP which took place in 1992. The SP had absorbed the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Cotton Belt , and the Northwestern Pacific, and the UP had absorbed the Western