The Eastern Idaho Railroad commenced on November 21, 1993, as a collection of two disconnected clusters of former
Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pac ...
(UP) branches. A subsidiary of
Watco
Watco Companies, L.L.C. (Watco) is a transportation company based in Pittsburg, Kansas, formed in 1983 by Charles R. Webb. Watco was composed of four divisions: transportation, mechanical, terminal and port services, and compliance. Watco is t ...
, EIRR operates two segments that move more than 35,000 carloads per year to the Union Pacific, with interchanges at
Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls ( Shoshoni: Dembimbosaage) is a city in and the county seat of Bonneville County, Idaho, United States. It is the state's largest city outside the Boise metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of Idaho Falls was 6 ...
on the Northern Segment, and
Minidoka on the Southern segment. The annual income is reported as being under 25 million dollars.
The Southern segment
The Southern lines consist of:
*UP's former Twin Falls Branch (Minidoka to
Buhl, 74 miles)
*UP's former North Side Branch (
Rupert to
Wendell, 57 miles)
*the Raft River Industrial Lead (
Burley to
Declo, 9miles)
*the Oakley Industrial Lead (Burley to
Martin Martin may refer to:
Places
* Martin City (disambiguation)
* Martin County (disambiguation)
* Martin Township (disambiguation)
Antarctica
* Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land
* Port Martin, Adelie Land
* Point Martin, South Orkney Islands
Austr ...
, 11 miles).
All lines connect for a total of . Operations are based out of the ex-UP depots at
Twin Falls and Rupert. The southern segment interchanges with UP at Minidoka, Idaho.
The Northern Segment
The Northern lines consist of:
*Union Pacific's former (Utah northern) main line in Idaho Falls (5 miles)
*the Yellowstone Branch (Idaho Falls to
Ashton, 52 miles)
*the St Anthony Industrial Lead (
Saint Anthony to
Egin
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* ''Egin'' (newspaper), a defunct bilingual Basque-Spanish newspaper
* Eğin, the name for the town of Kemaliye, Turkey, until about 1923
* Egin, Idaho, United States, an unincorporated community
* Yuri Egin, an anime-only cha ...
, 12 miles)
*the Goshen Industrial Lead (
Ammon
Ammon ( Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; he, עַמּוֹן ''ʻAmmōn''; ar, عمّون, ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking nation occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in ...
to
Lincoln Junction, 4 miles)
*the East Belt Branch (
Newdale to
Orvin
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, 38 miles),
*the West Belt Industrial Lead (
Ucon to
Menan, 10 miles).
All lines connect for a total of , served by three locomotives, with operations based out of an office trailer on the north end of the Idaho Falls yard, the point at which EIRR interchanges with UP's
Montana
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sub.
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Eastern Idaho Railroad
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Idaho railroads
Watco
Spin-offs of the Union Pacific Railroad
category:1993 establishments in Idaho