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Transportation Company - Gardendale - Railroad
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Company NameGardendale
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded2010
Successor/ParentGeorgia Northern (Details)
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Gardendale - Railroad



Company History: You may remember the Crystal City Railroad, a 51 mile line between Gardendale and Crystal City, Texas that was established by the Ironhorse Resources shortline group in 1990 and closed just 2 years later. Nearly all of that line was abandoned but Ironhorse Resources held onto about 1,600 feet of track and a bit over a mile of right of way in Gardendale even though there were no customers, just in case. Then in 2010, the area was hit by the shale oil and gas boom. Ironhorse established the Gardendale Railroad (GRD) to operate the line and built a yard. Including yards and spurs, they now have 28 miles of track. That first year, they handled just 395 cars. Two years later, it was over 16,000. In 2013, it was over 22,000 cars (that’s 60 per day on average.) In just over two years, they went from no customers to nine. They haul barite, bentonite, crude oil, drilling mud, frac sand, hydrochloric acid, and liquefied natural gas. In 2013, they were awarded Railway Age magazine’s “2013 Short Line of The Year.” The GRD locomotive fleet includes one of each of the following models: GP7, SD38, SD40M-2, SD40-2, and SDP40.
Successor/Parent History: Georgia Northern is the most important of the Pidcock Lines.
Brief History:
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Item created by: gdm on 2020-01-12 16:51:07. Last edited by Lethe on 2020-05-07 00:00:00

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