This organization took over passenger rail service from the private railroads, which afterwards provided only freight service, and placed it in a government corporation.

It is the only known example of a private railroad operated by a university.

The private railroads handled 5 billion in 1970, the last pre-Amtrak year.

These are no longer private, profitable railroads operating in interstate commerce.

Numerous private railroads operated commuter rail services to Cleveland.

Thus was conceived the last complete streamlined train to be built for a private railroad in the United States.

Today, with the demise of private railroads in New York, the Davis precedents are moot.

Amtrak would keep running trains for three years, but after that the commission could contract with a private railroad or run trains itself.

Calls over several days to the Association of American Railroads, the lobbying group for the large private railroads, were not returned.

It was as if, inside a packed space in the middle of the night, this motley crowd had found a stop on their own private underground railroad.