Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads...

railroads in North America Rail transport in Mexico#History Rail transportation in the United States Railroad land grants in the United States Railroad...

Transportation in the United States is governed by laws and regulations of the federal government. The Department of Transportation is responsible for...

Plans for high-speed rail in the United States date back to the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965. Various state and federal proposals have...

a list of the operating passenger rail transit systems in the United States. This list does not include intercity rail services such as the Alaska Railroad...

shipments. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The overwhelming majority of roads in the United States are...

The United States is serviced by a wide array of public transportation, including various forms of bus, rail, ferry, and sometimes, airline services. Most...

in shaping the economic, social, and geographic landscape of the United States, laying the foundation for much of the nation's modern transportation infrastructure...

The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. Also included are some of the urban streetcar/trolley systems...

Association, of the roughly 30 cities with light rail systems in the United States, the light rail systems in six of them (Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia...

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the...

The following is a list of all heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States. It does not include statistics for bus or light rail systems; see:...

The establishment of America's transcontinental rail lines securely linked California to the rest of the country, and the far-reaching transportation...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is an independent federal agency that serves as an adjudicatory board. The board was created...

The following is a list of commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association's...

Rail speed limits in the United States are regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration. Railroads also implement their own limits and enforce speed...

with the protection of life through regulation, management and technology development of all forms of rail transportation. In the United States there...

Transportation safety in the United States encompasses safety of transportation in the United States, including automobile crashes, airplane crashes, rail...

Commuter rail services in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica provide common carrier passenger transportation along railway...

for rail transportation the USMRR is one of the predecessors of the modern United States Army Transportation Corps. The American Civil War was the first...

passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces...

see Rail transport in Mexico  United States: see Rail transportation in the United States  Australia: see Rail transport in Australia  Nauru: see Rail transport...

city in the United States to get a permanent rail system installed. Transportation in Greater Los Angeles is a complex multimodal transportation infrastructure...

railroad. The idea of a rail network in the US, which is by then showing early signs some areas have overbuilt in the Eastern United States is still not...

The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 is a United States federal law that deregulated the American railroad industry to a significant extent, and it replaced...

Amtrak has operated most intercity passenger rail transportation in the United States since May 1, 1971. This list contains serious incidents – those with...

The United Transportation Union (UTU) was a broad-based, transportation labor union that represented about 70,000 active and retired railroad, bus, mass...

In United States railroading, the term national rail network, sometimes termed "U.S. rail network", refers to the entire network of interconnected standard...

were transferred to a new agency, the Surface Transportation Board. History of rail transport in the United States Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, ch...

freight rail lines in the Western United States, while CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway operate most of the trackage in the Eastern United States...