Great Miami & Scioto

Company History: The GMRY opened in 1994 to take over operation of a former B&O route between RA Junction and Red Diamond and a second route between Fire Brick and Hamden, Ohio from the previous operator Indiana & Ohio Eastern (the city of Jackson, Ohio owns the track.) Total length was about 77 miles. Traffic included auto parts, chemicals, flour, logs, sand and tomato paste. In 2006, the Great Miami & Scioto was sold to US Rail. The Miami in the name is a reference to the river in Ohio and not the city in Florida.

Successor/Parent History: U S Rail Corporation (reporting mark USRC) is a family-owned short-line railroad operating the Winamac Southern Railway in Indiana. The Kokomo division, in Kokomo, Indiana, operates a line for the Kokomo Grain Company and Winamac Southern Railway, transporting grain and serving the communities of Amboy, Marion, Converse, Sweetser, Galveston, Walton, Logansport, Clymers, Camden, Flora and Bringhurst. It interchanges with Norfolk Southern in Marion and Clymers, Indiana, Toledo, Peoria & Western in Logansport, and Central Railroad of Indianapolis in Kokomo, Indiana.

In October 2012, it was announced that U.S. Rail, Kokomo Grain and Norfolk Southern would rehabilitate 12 miles of the former Tipton-Peru line from Kokomo to Tipton, Indiana to interchange with Norfolk Southern there. This allows Kokomo Grain a shorter route to Indianapolis and markets south.

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