Great Lakes Transportation, LLC

Great Lakes Transportation LLC is a group of transportation related companies primarily consisting of rail and water carriers catering to the needs of the steel making industry centered on the

Great Lakes The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lak ...

of North America. GLT companies include: *

Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad is a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pen ...

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) , informally known as the Missabe Road, was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbor ...

* Great Lakes Fleet * Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Company Formerly owned by the privately owned Transtar, Inc., GLT's rail and marine holdings were purchased in 2004 by the Canadian National Railway for $380 million

USD The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official ...

. Great Lakes Fleet operates eight Great Lakes bulk carriers ranging from 1,004 feet long to 767 feet long. Among its carriers is the ''

SS Arthur M. Anderson SS ''Arthur M. Anderson'' is a cargo ship of the lake freighter, laker type. She is famous for being the last ship to be in contact with before she sank on November 10, 1975. ''Arthur M. Anderson'' was also the first rescue ship on the scene in ...

'', notable for being the last ship to have radio contact with her sister ship the '' SS Edmund Fitzgerald'' and would be the lead ship to attempt to rescue her crew. United States railroad holding companies Transportation companies of the United States Canadian National Railway subsidiaries {{Transport-company-stub