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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]
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.
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.
Since 2020, the railroad has been operated by the R.J. Corman Railroad Group as its Lehigh Line. The railroad was formed in 2009 to lease and operate Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Secondary from Mehoopany to Athens, which is the northern branch of the LV Main Line from Wilkes-Barre to Sayre. [2]
On June 18, 2009, R.J. Corman Railroad Group announced that it had completed its acquisition of Railpower's assets, [4] although none of the company's liabilities. As a result of the acquisition, customers of Railpower were forced to renegotiate servicing contracts with Corman, as the warranties on the locomotives ceased when the old company was purchased. [3]
Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines: Clearfield Southern Railroad: NYC: 1898 1905 Beech Creek Extension Railroad: Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad: NYC: 1854 1868 Lake Shore Railway: Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad: PRR: 1850 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Coal Glen Railroad: 1889
The Lehigh Valley Railroad-built tracks from Bethlehem to Allentown that became their own separate rail lines were downgraded to branch lines; these rail lines are now owned by R.J. Corman Railroad/Allentown Lines company which is a subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad Group.
RJCC - R.J. Corman Railroad/Central Kentucky Lines; RJCP - R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines; RJCW - R.J. Corman Railroad/Western Ohio Line; RJNX - R. H. Bogle Company; RKCX - Knox Kershaw, Inc. RKGX - River King Coal Company; RKMW - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island) Milwaukee Road directed operations