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The line was originally completed in 1916 as the Coos Bay Branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad between Eugene and Powers, Oregon. On September 21, 2007, Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (CORP) elected to shut down most of its Coos Bay branch. [2] The track was closed between Vaughn, Oregon (west of Noti), and Coquille, Oregon (south of ...
Over the next five years, the CSX railroads began consolidating into one mega-railroad. The process began when SCL merged its railroads into the Seaboard System Railroad in 1982. Western Maryland was merged into B&O on May 1, 1983. B&O was merged into C&O on April 30, 1987. Seaboard changed its name to CSX Transportation on July 1, 1986 ...
He received the Progressive Railroading Railroad Innovator Award for 2014, in recognition of outstanding achievements in the rail industry. [2] He deputized for Chief Executive Hunter Harrison on several occasions, [ 5 ] and succeeded Harrison as Chief Executive in January 2017, [ 6 ] earlier than the originally planned handover date of July ...
Conrail was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name (Consolidated Rail Corporation), and while it no longer operates trains it continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of ...
This was the Union Pacific's first short-line sale. Watco then looked to the West Region, acquiring the Blue Mountain Railroad in 1998, the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad in 1992 and the Eastern Idaho Railroad in 1993. In 1998, it began operating the Stillwater Central Railroad in Oklahoma and the Timber Rock Railroad in Texas.
The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad was the flagship predecessor to the G&W; Edward L. Fuller purchased it out of a bankruptcy in 1899. At that time, the railroad was operating as a 14.5-mile long (23.3 km) single-track line serving a single customer, a salt mine owned by Fuller in Retsof, New York. It was still operating the same line for the ...
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Coe Rail was an excursion and freight rail line running between West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Wixom, Michigan, United States.It was best known for its Michigan Star Clipper Dinner Train.