Railroads in the Chicago metropolitan area

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in every contiguous U.S. state except for Wyoming and South Dakota as well as in three Canadian provinces. Amtrak is a portmanteau of the words America and track.

freight railroad network in North America

Metra is a public transit service agency and the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area. It serves the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. Metra operates 243 stations on 11 rail lines.

railway system in the United States of America

American Class I railway (1990–)

company

American Class I railroad (1846-1968)

American Class I railroad (1914-1968)

rail system in the United States of America

transport company

former railroad that operated in the northeastern United States

former Class 1, American railroad, operating primarily west of the Mississippi

defunct American Class I railway

Conrail , formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. It continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of its operations during its acquisition by CSX Corporation and the Norfolk Southern Railway.

American Class I railroad (1968–1976)

defunct Class I railroad in the Midwest and Northwest of the U.S.

American class I railroad

defunct American Class I railroad

Rail transport company

transport company

defunct American Class I railway

transport company

Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City

transport company

US railroad established 1846

defunct American Class I railroad