This is a list of railway towns in the United States listed by state. The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system. Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. Historians credit the railroad system for the country's vast development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as having helped facilitate a "unified" nation.
Alabama Birmingham
Alaska Fairbanks Seward
Arizona Benson Williams
Arkansas Alicia Altheimer Altus Arkadelphia Ashdown Atkins Augusta Austin Bald Knob Beebe Bigelow Booneville Bradford Brinkley Bryant Cabot Calvin Camden Carlisle Clarksville Conway Corning Danville Decatur Delaplaine DeWitt Dumas Emmet England Fordyce Forrest City Garner Gurdon Hazen Helena–West Helena Higginson Hope Hot Springs Hoxie Jacksonville Keevil Kingsland Knobel Leslie Lonoke Malvern McCrory McGehee McRae Mena Minturn Newport North Little Rock O'Kean Palestine Patterson Peach Orchard Pine Bluff Poyen Prescott Redfield Rison Russell Russellville Searcy St. Joe Swifton Tuckerman Ward Wrightsville
California
Colorado Antonito Denver Durango JulesburgCourtwright, David T. (1996) Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder From the Frontier to the Inner City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp.83-84. Pueblo
Georgia Atlanta (est. as Terminus)
Idaho Pocatello Avery Burke Nampa Wallace
Illinois Centralia Champaign Chicago West Chicago Rochelle
Iowa Ames
Kansas Dodge City
Kentucky Midway
Maryland Baltimore Brunswick Cumberland Hagerstown
Missouri Kansas City St. Louis
Montana Billings Dillon Laurel Livingston Havre
Louisiana Hammond
Nebraska North Platte Omaha
Nevada Carson City Las Vegas Virginia City
New Hampshire Woodsville
New Mexico Albuquerque Chama
New York
North Carolina Apex Durham Ellenboro Goldsboro High Point Morehead City Weldon
North Dakota Barton Enderlin Taylor
Oklahoma Guthrie Stillwater
Oregon
Pennsylvania Altoona Pittsburgh Scranton
Tennessee Chattanooga Etowah Nashville
Texas Kilgore Port Arthur Wills Point Elgin College Station
Utah Helper Salt Lake City
Vermont Island Pond White River Junction Wells River
Virginia Clifton Forge, home to Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) shops. Crewe Roanoke, home to shops and locomotive works of the Norfolk & Western (N&W). Victoria, home to the Virginian Railway (VGN) shops.
Washington (state) Kalama Lester Melmont Spokane Tacoma
West Virginia Wheeling Harper's Ferry Huntington, founded as terminus for Chesapeake & Ohio
Wyoming Cheyenne Laramie
References
External links History of railroad towns via University of Groningen