List of railroad bankruptcies in North America

Contents

1 1900s
2 1910s
3 1920s
4 1930s
5 1940s
6 1950s
7 1960s
8 1970s
9 1980s
10 References

1900s

1910s

September 6, 1918:Canadian Northern Railway (nationalized)

1920s

July 12, 1920:Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (nationalized)
January 20, 1923:Grand Trunk Railway (nationalized)

1930s

December 4, 1931: Ann Arbor Railroad
February 10, 1932: Baltimore and Virginia Steamboat Company
March 31, 1933: Missouri Pacific Railroad
December 1934: Alleghany Corporation
March 26, 1935: Copper Range Railroad
October 23, 1935: New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
October 31, 1935: Connecticut Company
November 29, 1935: New York, Westchester and Boston Railway
February 2, 1936: Van Sweringen Company
June 3, 1936: Old Colony Railroad
May 20, 1937: New York, Ontario and Western Railway
January 18, 1938: Erie Railroad
August 4, 1938: Boston and Providence Railroad
October 30, 1939: Central Railroad of New Jersey

1940s

1947: American Railroad Company
March 2, 1949: Long Island Rail Road

1950s

November 19, 1954: Hudson and Manhattan Railroad

1960s

July 7, 1961: New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
September 7, 1962: Boston Terminal Corporation (South Station)
March 22, 1967: Central Railroad of New Jersey

1970s

March 12, 1970: Boston and Maine Corporation
June 21, 1970: Penn Central Transportation
July 24, 1970: Lehigh Valley Railroad
November 23, 1971: Reading Company
April 19, 1972: Lehigh and Hudson River Railway
June 26, 1972: Erie Lackawanna Railway
July 12, 1973: United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company (Penn Central subsidiary)
July 14, 1973: Beech Creek Railroad; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad; Connecting Railway; Delaware Railroad; Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad; Northern Central Railway; Penndel Company; Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad; Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad; Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway; Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway; Union Railroad of Baltimore (Penn Central subsidiaries)
October 15, 1973: Ann Arbor Railroad

1980s

1987: Delaware and Hudson Railroad

References