List of railway towns in the United States

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.

[1] 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.

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A narrow-gauge railway running through the center of Burke, Idaho .