The San Luis Central Railroad is a railroad company based in the

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. It was founded in 1913 to haul

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s from grower to processor. The railroad was acquired in 1969 by the Pea Vine Corporation and today operates freight traffic through a connection with the Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad hauling mainly grain, potatoes and fertilizer. SLC is also a railcar owner, mostly refrigerator cars and boxcars. The railroad is long, located between Sugar Junction (east of

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) and

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. The railroad owns two locomotives: Electro Motive Division SW8 number 70 and

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70 ton locomotive number 71. The company is owned by Rail World, Inc., which is controlled by

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. Burkhardt is listed as president of SLC.

Headquarters

The company's headquarters is located at 2899 Sherman Avenue, Monte Vista, Colorado 81144, at coordinates

References

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