Railway Age in 2024 is proud to announce Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) and Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company (W&LE) as our Short Line and Regional Railroads of the Year, respectively. Eastern ...

WASHINGTON — Pinsly Railroad Co. will acquire 36-mile Alabama short line Three Notch Railway from Genesee & Wyoming. The Georgiana & Andalusia Railroad will purchase the track and assume Three Notch’s ...

The railroad added 15 new Focus Sites to its network; 12 of the new industrial parks are connected through short line railroads OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Union Pacific Railroad announced today it ...

Railway Age proudly recognizes Rochester & Erie Railway LLC (RER) and Railroad Development Corporation’s Iowa Interstate Railroad LLC (IAIS) as our 2025 Short Line and Regional Railroads of the Year, ...

Union Pacific has added 15 new Focus Sites in eight states, with a dozen of the large-scale development properties located on connecting short line railroads. UP’s 39 Focus Sites generally include 125 ...

DES MOINES (AP) — Operators of short line railroads are hopeful that a proposed low-interest loan program introduced by two Iowa congressmen will receive approval. Legislation introduced by Reps.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company has sold two short-line railroads it recently discovered it owned to satisfy regulators who might have reviewed Berkshire Hathaway’s 2010 acquisition of the ...

ROMNEY, W.Va. — A national short line railroad company is in contract talks with the state to enter a long term lease agreement with for 51 miles of railroad in the South Branch Valley. OmniTrax is ...

LUCEDALE, Miss. (WKRG) — There is a simple question that leaders of Lucedale and George County have — the same one that every other growth-minded city, county, and state has. And it’s summed up by the ...

From member station KCUR in Kansas City, Frank Morris reports on the rise of so-called "short line" railroads. Since Congress deregulated the industry 20 years ago, the big rail companies dropped ...