List of Idaho railroads

{{Short description|none}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

The following railroads operate in Idaho.

{{TOC right}}

==Common freight carriers==

Passenger carriers

{{Idaho Rail Network}}

Private

Defunct railroads

{{inc-transport|date=August 2008}}

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Mark

!SystemThis is one or more of the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any.

!From

!To

!Successor

!Notes

Alder Creek Railway

|

|

|1912

|1918

|N/A

Boise City Railway and Terminal Company

|

|UP

|1893

|1910

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Boise, Nampa and Owyhee Railway

|

|UP

|1896

|1907

|Idaho Northern Railway

Burlington Northern Inc.

|BN

|

|1970

|1981

|Burlington Northern Railroad

Burlington Northern Railroad

|BN

|

|1981

|1996

|Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway

Camas Prairie RailNet

|CSP

|

|1998

|2004

|Great Northwest Railroad

Camas Prairie Railroad

|CSP

|NP/ UP

|1909

|1998

|Camas Prairie RailNet

Canyon Creek Railroad

|

|NP

|1887

|1888

|Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company

Central Idaho Railroad

|

|UP

|1910

|1914

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway

|

|MILW

|1909

|1912

|Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway

|

|MILW

|1912

|1928

|Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Idaho

|

|MILW

|1906

|1908

|Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Washington

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway of Washington

|

|MILW

|1908

|1909

|Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad

|MILW

|MILW

|1928

|1980

|St. Maries River Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad

Clearwater Short Line Railway

|

|NP

|1898

|1914

|Northern Pacific Railway

Clearwater Valley Railroad

|

|UP

|1898

|1916

|Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company

Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company

|

|NP

|1886

|1897

|Northern Pacific Railway

Coeur d'Alene and Pend d'Oreille Railway

|

|UP

|1910

|1941

|Spokane International Railroad

Columbia and Palouse Railroad

|

|UP

|1882

|1910

|Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company

Craig Mountain Railway

|

|

|1921

|1965

|N/A

Craig Mountain Lumber Company's Railway

|

|

|1909

|1921

|Craig Mountain Railway

Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad

|

|NP

|1907

|1939

|N/A

Great Northern Railway

|GN

|GN

|1890

|1970

|Burlington Northern Inc.

Idaho Central Railway

|

|UP

|1886

|1889

|Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway

Idaho Northern Railroad

|

|UP

|1906

|1910

|Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company

Idaho Northern Railway

|

|UP

|1897

|1912

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Idaho Southern Railroad

|

|

|1908

|1916

|N/A

Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad

|

|MILW

|1907

|1916

|Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway

Idaho and Western Railway

|

|MILW

|1909

|1912

|Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway

Intermountain Railway

|

|

|1907

|1935

|N/A

Kootenai Valley Railway

|

|GN

|1898

|1913

|Great Northern Railway

Lake Creek and Coeur d'Alene Railroad

|

|UP

|1906

|1910

|Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company

Lewiston, Nezperce and Eastern Railroad

|

|

|1915

|1924

|N/A

Malad Valley Railroad

|

|UP

|1902

|1910

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Milner and North Side Railroad

|

|

|1907

|1915

|N/A

Minidoka and Southwestern Railroad

|

|UP

|1904

|1910

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Nezperce Railroad

|NEZP

|

|1945

|1983

|N/A

Nez Perce and Idaho Railroad

|

|

|1917

|1946

|Nezperce Railroad

Nez Perce and Idaho Railroad

|

|

|1908

|1915

|Lewiston, Nezperce and Eastern Railroad

Northern Pacific Railroad

|

|NP

|1864

|1896

|Northern Pacific Railway

Northern Pacific Railway

|NP

|NP

|1896

|1970

|Burlington Northern Inc.

Ohio Match Company Railway

|

|SI

|1903

|1944

|Converted into roads.

Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company

|

|UP

|1896

|1910

|Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company

Oregon Railway and Navigation Company

|

|UP

|1884

|1896

|Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company

Oregon Short Line Railroad

|

|UP

|1897

|1987

|Union Pacific Railroad

Oregon Short Line Railway

|

|UP

|1882

|1889

|Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway

Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway

|

|UP

|1889

|1897

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company

|

|UP

|1910

|1987

|Union Pacific Railroad

Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad

|

|UP

|1903

|1910

|Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company

Pacific and Idaho Northern Railway

|P&IN

|UP

|1899

|1936

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad

|PCC

|

|1996

|2006

|Washington and Idaho Railway

Payette Valley Railroad

|

|UP

|1906

|1914

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Payette Valley Extension Railroad

|

|UP

|1910

|1914

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

St. Anthony Railroad

|

|UP

|1899

|1910

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Salmon River Railroad

|

|UP

|1901

|1910

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Salt Lake and Idaho Railroad

|

|UP

|1909

|1914

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

San Francisco, Idaho and Montana Railway

|

|UP

|1905

|1909

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Palouse Railway

|

|GN

|1926

|1943

|Great Northern Railway

|Electric until 1941

Spokane Falls and Idaho Railroad

|

|NP

|1886

|1898

|Northern Pacific Railway

Spokane International Railroad

|SI

|UP

|1941

|1987

|Union Pacific Railroad

Spokane International Railway

|

|UP

|1905

|1941

|Spokane International Railroad

Spokane and Palouse Railway

|

|NP

|1886

|1898

|Northern Pacific Railway

Utah Northern Railroad

|

|UP

|1872

|1878

|Utah and Northern Railway

Utah and Northern Railway

|

|UP

|1878

|1889

|Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway

Wallace and Sunset Railroad

|

|NP

|1890

|1898

|Northern Pacific Railway

Washington and Idaho Railroad

|

|UP

|1886

|1896

|Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company

Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway

|WIM

|MILW

|1905

|1980

|Burlington Northern Inc.

Weiser, Idaho and Spokane Railway

|

|UP

|

|1899

|Pacific and Idaho Northern Railway

Yellowstone Park Railroad

|

|UP

|1905

|1910

|Oregon Short Line Railroad

;Electric

Notes

{{Reflist|group=nb}}

References

  • Association of American Railroads (2003), {{cite web|url= http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRState_ID.pdf |title=Railroad Service in Idaho }}. Retrieved May 9, 2005.
  • {{cite book|author=Hilton, George W.|title=American Narrow Gauge Railroads|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, California|year=1990|isbn=0-8047-2369-9}}

{{US railroad lists}}

{{Idaho}}

Idaho railroads

Railroads