Current Railroad route map

Is there a place on the internet that has a map of the US and all or at least most of the the railroads down to regionals on it? OR at least the midwest/west?

I know Trains has their maps of the month, but what I'm looking for is a resource to determine what routes might interchange with my fictional route.

 

I used maps I found using searches in Google for the railroads (most of the maps I have were pulled off the railroad sites themselves or from validated Wiki articles).

 

That requires me to know the names of the railroads involved. I probably know most of them, but I was hoping to just find a generic map.

In particular, I want to know all the railroads including regionals and such between Chicago and Denver.

 

YoHo, I found this site which has historical North American rr maps.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrmap.html

I know you said "current", but this might give you a start.

 

This is what you want.

http://www.freightrailworks.org/pickastate.htm

Pick a state, then find the link under the map that gives you "complete details about rail industry in". It will list each Class 1, Regional, Local etc. and mileage for each.

Here is California for example.

http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRState_CA.pdf?states=RRState_CA.pdf

Good stuff.

 

Fantastic find!

Thank you!

 

That link sent me here
BTS | North American Transportation Atlas Data (NORTAD) CD (DOS and Unix)

which looks awesome, but I have yet to figure out how to make it work.

 

Worked fine for me. Really good stuff.
Try pasting it into your browser instead of clicking on it.

 

I have no idea how that BTS site comes up, try typing the link, or cut and paste.

 

This site is interesting as well. There is a usarail.zip that looks promising, can't figure it out either. Looks like a link to a reader at the bottom. Which I followed to here:LandView 5.0 Download Page

 

Bummer, the reader sells for $99, usarail.zip will have to wait.

 

Sorry, the link works fine, I just couldn't figure out how to get the Database in that Zip file to work. I guess you need to buy their software.

Seems dumb in a world of free databases....like the one that powers this website, that I need to pay for a special Database engine for this.

 

Somehow you are being redirected then. You should get a red page with a link to every state with this one.

http://www.freightrailworks.org/pickastate.htm

What states are you interested in again. I'll post a link to each individual states pdf. If that doesn't work I could just e-mail them to you as well.