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A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the U.S., railroads are categorized by operating revenue, and most shortline railroads fall into the Class III or Class II categorization defined by the Surface Transportation Board. Shortlines generally exist for one of three reasons: to link two industries requiring rail freight together (for example, a gypsum mine and a wall board factory, or a coal mine and a power plant); to interchange revenue traffic with other, usually larger, railroads; or to operate a tourist passenger train service. Often, short lines exist for all three of these reasons.
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- Link text ,. http://www.aslrra.org/about_aslrra/faqs/
- Shortline Railroads Keep American Towns Humming By Ben Dobbin (Associated Press), 2009-08-26 http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/shortline-railroads-keep-american-towns-humming-1.1395113
- "Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire" (in fr). http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/spip.php?page=article&id_article=17227.
