The following railroads are operating in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Active railroads Common carrier freight railroads Railroad Marks Notes Type A&R Terminal Railroad ART AgRail AGRL Ag Valley Railroad AVRR Alton and Southern Railway ALS Belt Railway of Chicago BRC Bloomer Line BLOL BNSF Railway BNSF Burlington Junction Railway BJRY also operates City of Rochelle Railroad (CIR) Canadian National Railway CN through subsidiaries Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (CC), Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (EJE), Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW), Illinois Central Railroad (IC), and Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC) Canadian Pacific Kansas City CPKC through subsidiaries Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DME) and Soo Line Railroad (SOO) Chicago–Chemung Railroad CCUO Chicago Port Railroad CPC Chicago Rail Link CRL Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad CSS Cicero Central Railroad CCER Coffeen and Western Railroad CAEG Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad COER CSX Transportation CSXT including subsidiary Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (BOCT) Decatur Central Railroad Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad DREI Decatur Junction Railway DT Eastern Illinois Railroad EIRC Effingham Railroad EFRR Evansville Western Railway EVWR FFG&C Railroad FFGC Great Lakes Terminal Railway GLTR Hussey Terminal Railroad HTRC not operating Illinois Railway IR Illinois and Midland Railroad IMRR Illinois Western Railroad ILW Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad IHB Indiana Rail Road INRD Iowa Interstate Railroad IAIS operates Lincoln and Southern Railroad Joppa and Eastern Railroad JE Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad KBSR Kansas City Southern Railway KCS including subsidiary Gateway Eastern Railway (GWWE) Keokuk Junction Railway KJRY KM Railways KMR Manufacturers' Junction Railway MJ not operating Norfolk Southern Railway NS Peru Industrial Railroad PIRR Pioneer Industrial Railway PRY Port Harbor Railroad PHRR Riverport Railroad RVPR Shawnee Terminal Railway STR not operating South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway SCIH Tazewell and Peoria Railroad TZPR operates Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (PPU) Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis TRRA Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway TPW Union Pacific Railroad UP including subsidiary Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company Vandalia Railroad VRRC Vermilion Valley Railroad VVRR operates FNG Logistics Company (FNG) Wisconsin and Southern Railroad WSOR
Private freight carriers Railroad Marks Notes ADM Milling ADMX Aux Sable Midstream Bulkmatic Railroad Buzzi Unicem Centerpoint Transportation, LLC Operates the Joliet Terminal Railroad Hoffman Transportation HTCX Ingredion Kaskaskia Regional Port District KKRX Mars Candy Material Sciences Corporation Mokena Illinois Railroad R Bult Rail Lines
Passenger carriers
Railroad Marks Amtrak AMTK Chicago Transit Authority CTA Fox River Trolley Museum Illinois Railway Museum IRMX Metra METX MetroLink BSDA Monticello Railway Museum MRMZ Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad South Shore Line NICD
Proposed railroads 505 Railroad Beecher Industrial Railway Crete Terminal Railroad Eastern Joliet Railway Great Lakes Basin Transportation .0 Defunct railroads