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Being unfamiliar with US railroad operations, have most of the companies featured in your excellent photos disappeared or been swallowed up in mergers?
Yes... Most of the railroads here have been merged together. There are exceptions of course such as the Kansas City Southern (KCS) and some of the others.
Here's a rundown from memory of some of the mergers.
Burlington Northern (BN) is the Great Northern and Northern Pacific and Frisco, which in turn merged fairly recently with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe to form the Burlington Northern, Santa Fe (BNSF)
Canadian National Railway (CNR) owns the Grand Trunk Western, Illinois Central (IC) and Dakota Montana and Eastern (DME) and a few others.
Soo Lines merged in the remnants of the Milwaukee Road (Chicago Milwaukee and Pacific), and parts of other systems. This road was always a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific, which now operates them fully.
The current iteration of the Illinois Central, owned by CNR now, is actually the renaming of a former company that was merged previously. This was the Illinois Central (original company) plus the Gulf Mobile and Ohio, which formed the ICG.
The Chicago and Northwestern is now part of the Union Pacific. (UPRR)
The UPRR currently owns:
Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Denver Rio Grande Western and Chicago Northwestern, St. Louis Southwestern (aka Cotton Belt).
CSX owns part of Conrail, mostly the former New York Central lines plus a handful, today and also owns the former Louisville and Nashville, Seacoast Lines, and Atlantic Coastlines and others. This company also owns the Chesapeake and Ohio, Baltimore and Ohio, and Western Maryland.
Norfolk Southern (NS), is a new iteration of a smaller company of the same name. The original was a small short line, however, the new company is a much bigger entity made up of the Norfolk & Western and the Southern Railway. The Norfolk and Western had also bought the old Wabash as well. NS also owns part of the Conrail system, and mostly the Pennsylvania and Erie Lackawanna lines, as well as others that got thrown in.
There are others too, which I can't recall because there have been so many mergers over the past 30- plus years that have narrowed down the companies to a mere handful of what we once had.
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