Georgia Woodlands

Company History: The GWRC swooped onto the scene in 1988 to take over the route of the Georgia Eastern which was in financial trouble after just 16 months of operation. It ran the 17 mile former Washington Branch of the Georgia Railroad between Washington and Barnett, Georgia. At that time, GWRC was owned by the parent company of the Chicago West Pullman & Southern. Traffic in the early days included fertilizer, lumber, plastics, pulpwood, and woodchips with about 50 cars moving in a typical week. GWRC joined the OmniTRAX family of shortlines in 1992.

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.