Nebraska Kansas Colorado

Company History: NKCR was launched in 2005 when the OmniTRAX shortline group purchased the Nebraska Kansas Colorado RailNet from the North American RailNet shortline group. NKCR runs three separate groups of routes: Holdrege, Nebraska west to Sterling, Colorado with a branch to the Gentleman Power Plant north of Wallace, Nebraska (the largest power plant in the state.); McCook west to Imperial, Nebraska; Franklin, Nebraska west to St. Francis, Kansas with branches to Oxford Junction and Oberlin.

In total, they operate 559 miles of former Chicago Burlington & Quincy routes. Traffic includes coal, corn, fertilizer and wheat.

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.