Over Under
Canadian Natiopnal GP9RM 7039 passes over Southern
Ontario Railway 2081
GP38-2 in Brantford, Ont., where the CN Hagersville Sub crosses over the ex-CN Burford line on February 1; the latter is now owned by Ingenia in Brantford. Southern Ontario is part of the Genesee & Wyoming family of shortlines. The Burford runs from Hamilton, Ont., to Brantford to serve the only customer on the line. CN had planned to remove the line but Ingenia purchased the line from CN and arranged for SOR to serve the plant. SOR already had running rights to Brantford, so no new agreement was required.
PHOTO BY WALTER PFEFFERLE
CANADIAN SHORTLINES GLENN COURTNEY
Motive Power Shorts
Societe de Chemin de Fer de la Gaspesie has repainted RS-18u 1819 from its patched CP Rail paint to a mostly black scheme with bright green and silver stripes on the nose with the railway name and a green leaf logo on the long hood... Ontario North- land GP38-2 1805 has been repainted from the chevron paint scheme to the railway’s current paint scheme. This leaves GP9 1604 as the sole remaining locomotive wearing the chevron paint scheme... Roberval & Saguenay has acquired three GP38-3 locomotives, numbered 70, 71 and 72, after they were rebuilt at Metro East Industries... Great Sandhills Railway is no longer leasing DLCX GP10 8308, which has moved to Dakota Rail... Southern Rails Co-op- erative is leasing JLCX GP20 2049, built as Santa Fe 1170.
REGIONALS/SHORTLINES EAST STEPHEN KOENIG
Mortimer Fuller III Retires from GWI
Mortimer Fuller III, CEO of Genesee & Wyoming Industries,
announced
his retirement and replacement in the beginning of 2017. Fuller’s career began with the purchase of controlling inter- est in the original Genesee & Wyoming Railroad, the company’s corporate predecessor founded by his great-grand- father in 1899. The railroad was a small
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14-mile carrier dedicated to hauling salt in the western New York area, based in the small town of Retsof. Its main customer was the salt mine. In an effort to preserve the salt traffic, the railroad acquired the
portion of
the former Baltimore & Ohio line from Rochester to Ashford Junction, N.Y., and formed the Rochester & Southern in 1986, the first of many acquisitions. Fuller’s career with GWI spanned 40 years, and in that time he took this small railroad and made the company into the largest shortline holding company in the world with revenue near $2 billion annually.
Jack Hellmann, GWI’s CEO and direc- tor, will succeed Fuller in May.
New York State Grant for SMS Rail Services
SMS Rail Services was the recipient of an award from the state of New York for $2.6 million, one of the largest awards of a $25 million payout from the state for rail improvements on many shortlines. The money will pay for improvements on most of the 14 miles SMS operates near Albany and will allow the railroad’s transloading facility to grow there.
Heart of Georgia to Genesee & Wyoming
The GWI acquisition machine contin- ues as it has agreed to acquire Atlantic Western Holding, which owns the Heart of Georgia Railroad. The carrier was founded in 1999 and operates 219 miles of track leased from the Georgia Depart- ment of Transportation. This acquisition now strengthens the GWI holdings in
western Georgia. The regional connects with
GWI’s Georgia Southwestern
Railroad in Americus and with GWI’s Georgia Central Railway in Vidalia, which in turn connects it to other GWI railroads in the area creating a large network of lines extending from Colum- bus to Bainbridge and into Alabama.
Tennessee Southern Railway
Home to several eclectic locomotives in various states of service, the Tennes- see Southern indicated in February that it intends to replace its
fleet of
leased GP7Us with GP38s on a lease agreement. The older former Santa Fe rebuilds have been the standard active freight units since 2007. TSRR is owned by Patriot Rail.
REGIONALS/SHORTLINES WEST GARLAND MCKEE
Northwestern Pacific Reaches Agreement with SMART
Northwestern Pacific and the Sonoma- Marin Area Rail Transit Authority have reached a tentative agreement regarding the liquefied petroleum gas tank cars the railroad has been handling. Eighty cars of the LPG have been in storage limbo in the Schellville yard for the past several months as the railroad and its owner (SMART) argue over them. SMART has argued the tankers represent a health hazard while the Northwestern Pacific has argued it’s just normal freight. The tankers have been caught in the middle,
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