The Columbia Terminal Railroad (reporting mark CT)[1] is a local, short-line, freight railroad in Boone County, Missouri, owned by and serving the city of Columbia, Missouri.

Formerly, the line carried passengers to the Wabash Railroad Station and Freight House in Downtown Columbia, Missouri.

The line was created by the Boone County and Jefferson City Railroad Company, incorporated 1857.

After a series of reorganizations and mergers the Wabash took direct ownership of the branch in 1902.

[3] When the Norfolk Southern Railway, successor to the Wabash, proposed the abandon the line in 1987, the city of Columbia acquired the line and created the Columbia Terminal Railroad to serve freight customers along the route.