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Transportation Company - Elkhart & Western - Railroad
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Company NameElkhart & Western
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded2001
TerminationSubsidiary
Successor/ParentPioneer RailCorp (Details)
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Elkhart & Western - Railroad



Company History: The EWR was launched in 2001 by the Pioneer Railcorp family of shortlines. They run two segments of line in Indiana. The first runs from Elkhart west for about 11 miles to Mishawaka (former New York Central.) The other runs 23 miles from Argos to Walkerton (former Nickel Plate Road.) Traffic includes aggregates, auto frames, cement, lumber, plastic, and tomato paste. Power is a GP9 (originally Milwaukee Road) and a GP10 (originally a Great Northern GP9 rebuilt by ICG’s Paducah Shops.)
Successor/Parent History:
Pioneer Railcorp is a railroad holding company that owns short line railroads and several other railroad related businesses including a railroad equipment company and a contract switching services company. Railroad transportation is provided by the Company’s wholly-owned short line railroad subsidiaries ("Pioneer Lines".) Pioneer Lines rail system is primarily devoted to carrying freight and currently consists of 23 rail operations in 13 states with over 600 miles of track serving over 100 customers. .

Customers know Pioneer Lines and its dedication to providing reliable and dependable rail services through its North American railroad subsidiaries. Pioneer’s customers include some of the most successful corporations in America. The commodities moved by Pioneer Lines are primary products needed for the economy in good times and bad. Examples of these commodities are agricultural products such as cottonseed, corn, fertilizer, meal, peanuts, soybeans, and wheat, along with other products such as alcohol, baby food, charcoal, chemicals, flooring materials, frozen foods, heavy equipment, lumber, paper products, plastics, scrap metal, steel (finished,) and wood products (finished.)
Brief History:
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
Item created by: gdm on 2019-11-01 12:12:11. Last edited by Lethe on 2020-05-07 00:00:00

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