Patriot Rail Company LLC (Patriot Rail) is a

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for a number of shortline railroads across the United States. In June 2012, Patriot Rail was acquired by SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners (SteelRiver). On August 8, 2022 Patriot Rail announced its intention to acquire

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Holdings

Active railroad operations. * Kingman Terminal Railroad *

Tennessee Southern Railroad The Tennessee Southern Railroad began operations in 1988 and currently operates in middle Tennessee and northwestern Alabama. The main line consists of and the total track has .

* Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway * Utah Central Railway * Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway *Sacramento Valley Railroad * Louisiana and North West Railroad * Temple and Central Texas Railway * DeQueen and Eastern Railroad/

Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad The Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad owned by Patriot Rail Company of Jacksonville, Florida, with 39.3 miles of track in southeastern Oklahoma. It is operated along with its affiliate, the De Queen and E ...

Acquired from Weyerhaeuser in 2010. *

Golden Triangle Railroad The Golden Triangle Railroad is a railway in central Mississippi, totalling length. It is owned by the Patriot Rail Corporation. The GTRA interchanges with the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) at Columbus, Mississippi, and with Burlington Nor ...

Columbia and Cowlitz Railway The Columbia and Cowlitz Railway is a short-line railroad owned by Patriot Rail Corporation, and is headquartered in Longview, Washington. The railroad serves an route from the Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Longview to the junction just outsid ...

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Georgia Northeastern Railroad The Georgia Northeastern Railroad is a short line freight railroad which runs from the town of Elizabeth, Georgia (now within Marietta, northwest of Atlanta) to the city of Blue Ridge, Georgia. Goods hauled are mostly timber, grain, poultry, ...

Former holdings

Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad The Mississippi & Skuna Valley Railroad (MSV) was a 22-mile a shortline railroad that operated in Mississippi from 1925 to 2008. History The railroad was on incorporated on June 1, 1925 primarily to serve the E.L. Bruce Company hardwood mill in B ...

. This line was acquired from Weyerhaeuser in 2010, but due to issues about a damaged bridge on a connecting railroad, Patriot filed for abandonment in 2011, and the line has since become a rail-to-trail conversion.

References

External links

*http://www.patriotrail.com/ United States railroad holding companies Companies based in Jacksonville, Florida {{US-rail-transport-stub