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The West Texas & Lubbock Railway is a shortline railroad in Texas, owned by Watco. It connects the BNSF in Lubbock with agricultural and oil-producing areas to the west and southwest. The company operates 107 miles of two ex-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway lines, extending to Whiteface and Seagraves parallel to State Highway 114 and U.S. Highway 62. The primary commodities hauled are fertilizer, construction aggregates, grain, cotton, chemicals, peanuts and plastics.
The Warren and Trumbull Railroad is a part of the Ohio Central Railroad System, which was bought by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. in 2008, operating three lines in and near Warren. It began operations in 1994 on a line formerly operated by CSX Transportation, and expanded in 1996 on two ex-Conrail lines.
The Wallowa Union Railroad Authority is a short-line railroad owned by Wallowa County and Union County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It operates freight and tourist trains over a 62.58-mile (100.71 km) ex-Union Pacific Railroad line from the end of an Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad branch at Elgin to Joseph, generally paralleling Oregon Route 82.
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- ↑ Fortress to Acquire US Steel’s Short Line Subsidiary Railway Age June 9, 2021
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 STB Finance Docket No. 33942, November 30, 2000
- ↑ STB Finance Docket No. 34311, February 19, 2003
- ↑ STB Finance Docket No. 34767, November 1, 2005
- ↑ Fairfield Southern Company, accessed December 2008
- ↑ Mobile River Terminal, accessed December 2008
- ↑ STB Finance Docket No. 35027, May 25, 2007
- ↑ STB Finance Docket No. 35070, August 8, 2007
- ↑ Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., accessed December 2008
- ↑ Jonathan P. Hicks, New York Times, USX Agrees to Sell Transportation Unit, June 21, 1988