Railroads Photographed

I prefer to sub divide this section into the types of railroads I frequent. organizing will make for easier navigation.

Railroad classes, a scale made by the AAR ( American Association of Railroads ) that they use to tell what rail companies fall into what catagory based on the companies yearly profit. Class 1 are generally continetally spanning, class 2 are regional, the company operates across multiple states. Class 3 are local operations, a company operating in a few counties of a state or a few clusters of towns. 

There are 3 class 1 railroads that operate in Pa or the surrounding states. 

• Norfolk Southern
• CSX 
• Canadian National

- Others such as BNSF UP and FerroMEX can be seen on thu trains or trailing in the main 3's consists. 

There are many class 2 railroads in the map shown above, but I only frequent these. There are more which I encounter when I travel, but those are futher north or west.

• Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railway
• Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

There are TONS of class 3 ralroads in every state in the USA, too many for me to list them and especially those in far away states of the companies + subsidiaries. Here are the some which I will stop by or have stopped by to spectate or photograph. I've included industrial ops in this. 

• Allegheny Valley Railroad ( Carload Express ) 
• Alliquippa & Ohio River Railroad ( Genesee & Wyoming )
• Appalacian & Ohio Railroad
• Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad ( Canadian National )
• Buckingham Branch Railroad 
• Cambria Industrial Development
• Colona Transfer
• Conemaugh & Black Lick ( Phoenix Rail )
• Cuyahoga Valley Railroad
• Delaware Lackawanna
• Dura Bond Pipes ( Mckeesport + Duquesne ) 
• Edgar Thompson Works
• Everett Railroad
• Juniata Valley Railroad ( North Shore )
• Koppels Steel 
• Larry's Truck and Electric 
• Landisville Railroad
• Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad
• New Castle Industrial 
• Nittany Bald Eagle ( North Shore )
• Ohio Central Systems ( Genesee & Wyoming )
• Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad
• Pennsylvania & Southern Railroad
• Philidealphia Belthehem & New England Railroad ( Phoenix Rail )
• Pittsburgh & Ohio Central ( Genesee & Wyoming )
• Potomac Eagle Railroad
• Reading Blue Mountain & Northern 
• RJ Cormpan Lines
• Shenandoa Valley Railroad
• Steelton & Highspire Railroad
• Strasburg Rail Road
• South Western Pennsylvania ( Carload Express )
• Three Rivers Marine & Rail Terminals
• Tube City Metals 
• Union Railroad ( Transtar ) 
• Union Tanker Car Co.
• Western Maryland Scenic Railway
• Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad 

I was not sure which catagory to put these in so I gave them thier own.

Amtrak

Long Island Railroad

MBTA 

There are multiple places that I go to to get information of railroads of all kinds and their operation times.

This website can be useful l if their info is up to date, A-Z seaching for all 3 types of railroad by state. 

https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Another great source of info is from facebook groups that make communities around specific railroads. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/discover/

Ther are likely tons of non up to date or complete rosters of rail equpment on websites out there. Many high profile companies have theirown made by fans. The best in terms of info I've found are on this website, class 1 2 and 3 roailroad rosters.

https://www.thedieselshop.us/

The best website for photos along side railroad rosters with more than 1 railroad company on it has to be this website:

https://www.rrpicturearchives.net/railroadList.aspx

I have also included a website for searching for locomoitves built by the company EMD, when i search locomitive rosters, the serial number of a locomotive helps a railfan track a train's journey across railroad companies. Her is the website:

https://www.trainweb.us/emdloco/serial.htm