Central Texas and Colorado River

Company History: The CTXR was established in 2016 when the OmniTRAX shortline group purchased the Heart Of Texas Railroad. This 68 mile line connects Brady, Texas to the BNSF mainline at Lometa. A new concrete trestle over the Colorado River has replaced the original wood trestle which burned down in 2013 under the previous owner. Traffic includes aggregates, grain, feed, building products and frac sand. However, heavy costs to upgrade the line and a failure of traffic to develop as hoped has led OmniTRAX to apply to abandon this line.

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.