The Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad was a

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operating in the

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state of

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. It consisted of of track between Rockdale and

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, Texas. In 2005, the

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purchased the railroad. It ultimately became part of Genesee & Wyoming's holdings. The railroad's traffic came mainly from aluminum products, as well as other metals. RSS hauled around 6,100 carloads in 2008. In December 2018,

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Energy Services, which owned a closed

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on the line, announced that it planned to acquire the railroad, which by that time was inactive, and a year later filed to abandon the line on the grounds that it had no realistic chance of obtaining customers.

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