Brownsville & Rio Grande

Company History: This 50 mile line operates the terminal trackage around the Port of Brownsville, Texas plus a line into the city of Brownsville itself. The track is owned by the Brownsville Navigation District and was operated until 1984 by Missouri Pacific. At that point, the Brownsville & Rio Grande International was established to operate the line. The BRG operates 6 freight yards, rosters (at last count) 9 end-cab switchers, 3 hood units and about 1,000 freight cars.

Successor/Parent History: OmniTRAX, Inc is one of North America’s largest private railroad and transportation management companies with interests in railroads, terminals, ports and industrial real estate. OmniTRAX operates a network of 21 regional and short line railroads that cover 12 states in the US and 3 provinces in Canada. The company’s railroads have interchanges with BNSF, CN, CSXT, NS & UP, and transport commodities within the Agricultural, Aggregate & Industrial Mineral, Energy, Food, Crude Oil, Chemical, Lumber, Metal, Petroleum and Plastic industries.

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.