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All Class I Railroads in 1956

Name all Class I railroads as defined by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1956 (i.e. railroads earning over $3 million per year,) just prior to the onset of "merger mania" in the late 1950s. Note that some of these railroads were obscure subsidiary companies that were only nominally independent from their parent organizations.
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AA
Ann Arbor
ACL
Atlantic Coast Line
AC&Y
Akron, Canton and Youngstown
AGS
Alabama Great Southern
ASAB
Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay (Bay Line)
AT&N
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern
AT&SF
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (Santa Fe)
A&WP
Atlanta and West Point (West Point Route)
B&AR
Bangor and Aroostook
B&M
Boston and Maine
B&O
Baltimore and Ohio
CAR&NW
Carolina and Northwestern
CB&Q
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (Burlington Route)
C&EI
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
CG
Central of Georgia
CGW
Chicago Great Western
C&IM
Chicago and Illinois Midland
CNJ
Central Railroad of New Jersey (Jersey Central)
CNO&TP
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
C&NW
Chicago and North Western
C&O
Chesapeake and Ohio
CPME
Canadian Pacific Lines in Maine
CRR
Clinchfield Railroad
C&S
Colorado and Southern
CSPM&O
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
CV
Central Vermont
C&W
Colorado and Wyoming
C&WC
Charleston and Western Carolina
DH
Delaware and Hudson
DL&W
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
DM&IR
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range
D&RGW
Denver and Rio Grande Western
DSS&A
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic
DT&I
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton
D&TSL
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line
DW&P
Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific
EJ&E
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern
ERIE
Erie Railroad
FEC
Florida East Coast
FW&D
Fort Worth and Denver
GA
Georgia Railroad
GB&W
Green Bay and Western
G&F
Georgia and Florida
GM&O
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
GN
Great Northern
GS&F
Georgia Southern and Florida
GTW
Grand Trunk Western
IC
Illinois Central
ITC
Illinois Terminal
KCS
Kansas City Southern
L&A
Louisiana and Arkansas
L&HR
Lehigh and Hudson River
LI
Long Island
L&M
Litchfield and Madison
L&N
Louisville and Nashville
L&NE
Lehigh and New England
LS&I
Lake Superior and Ishpeming
LV
Lehigh Valley
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MEC
Maine Central
MGA
Monongahela Railway
MI
Missouri–Illinois
MILW
Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific)
MKT
Missouri–Kansas–Texas (Katy)
MN&S
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern
MON
Monon (Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville)
MP
Missouri Pacific
M&STL
Minneapolis and St. Louis
NC&STL
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
NH
New Haven (New York, New Haven and Hartford)
NKP
Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago, and St. Louis)
NYS&W
New York, Susquehanna, and Western
NO&NE
New Orleans and North Eastern
NP
Northern Pacific
NS
Norfolk Southern
N&W
Norfolk and Western
NWP
Northwestern Pacific
NYC
New York Central
NYCN
New York Connecting Railroad
NYO&W
New York, Ontario and Western
OK&G
Oklahoma, Kansas and Gulf
P&LE
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
P&N
Piedmont and Northern
PRR
Pennsylvania Railroad
PRSL
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
P&WV
Pittsburgh and West Virginia
RDG
Reading Railroad
RF&P
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
RI
Rock Island (Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific)
RUT
Rutland Railroad
QA&P
Quanah, Acme and Pacific
S&A
Savannah and Atlanta
SAL
Seaboard Air Line
SD&AE
San Diego and Arizona Eastern
SI
Spokane International
SIRT
Staten Island Rapid Transit
SLSF
St. Louis San Francisco (Frisco)
SLSFTX
St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas
SN
Sacramento Northern
SOO
Soo Line (Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie)
SOU
Southern Railway
SP
Southern Pacific
SP&S
Spokane, Portland and Seattle
SSW
St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
TC
Tennessee Central
TM
Texas Mexican
T&NO
Texas and New Orleans
T&P
Texas and Pacific
TP&W
Toledo, Peoria and Western
UP
Union Pacific
VGN
Virginian
WA
Western Railway of Alabama
WAB
Wabash
WC
Wisconsin Central
WM
Western Maryland
WP
Western Pacific
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