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R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC is a privately owned railroad services and short line operating company headquartered in Nicholasville, Kentucky, with field locations in 22 states. It was owned by Richard J. Corman , who established the company in 1973, and ran it until his death on August 23, 2013.
Shortly afterward, No. 7040 was purchased again by the R.J. Corman Railroad Group under the order of the company's chairman, Richard J. Corman, and the intentions were to bring the locomotive back under steam as a public relations tool. The locomotive was renumbered to 2008, since it made its inaugural run on May 24, 2008, and it was ...
Richard Jay Corman (July 22, 1955 – August 23, 2013) [1] was the founder and owner of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, a Nicholasville, Kentucky-based railroad services and short line operating company.
The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city's suburbs, only entering Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of ...
R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines (RJCP) Shamokin Valley Railroad (SVRR) (North Shore Railroad (Pennsylvania)) SMS Rail Lines (SRL) Operates Penn Jersey Rail Lines; Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad (SWP) Strasburg Railroad (SRC) Tyburn Railroad (TYBR) (Regional Rail, LLC) Union Railroad (URR) Union County Industrial Railroad (UCIR) (North ...
R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines (reporting mark RJCP) is a railroad in the R.J. Corman Railroad Group, operating a number of lines in central Pennsylvania.It primarily carries coal between mines and Norfolk Southern Railway connections at Cresson and Keating. [1]
The station was built in 1860 by the Bardstown and Louisville Railroad, which the Louisville and Nashville Railroad purchased the assets of in 1864. It was the only railroad station in Kentucky built of dry-stone. [3] However, the 18 miles (29 km) line to connect the station to the L&N's main line wasn't until March 1860. [4]
[13] [14] A third, number 7040 (re-numbered to 2008), was acquired by the Lexington, Kentucky-based RJ Corman in 2008, and operated until 2013, when it was placed on display in a specially built glass display building in Lexington. [15] In 2020, Corman donated the engine to the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation. [16]