The Point Comfort and Northern Railway is a

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operating in the

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. The railroad operates over of

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between

Point Comfort, Texas Point Comfort is a city in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. It is a part of the Victoria, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 737 at the 2010 census. Geography Point Comfort is located in northeastern Calhoun County at ...

, (at the

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) and

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, where the railroad transfers cars with

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 Paci ...

. PCN was purchased by the

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in 2005; RailAmerica in turn was purchased by

Genesee & Wyoming Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) is an American short line railroad holding company, that owns or maintains an interest in 122 railroads in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and formerly Australia. It operates ...

. The railroad's traffic largely comes from aluminum products from Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals as well as plastics. PCN hauled around 12,500 carloads in 2008.

References

External links

Point Comfort and Northern Railway official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
Texas railroads Genesee & Wyoming {{Texas-transport-stub