Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority

Company History: First of all, the word Maintenance was frequently omitted from the name of this organization, even on their locomotives. The CBRM was established in 1986 as a non-profit by a local development authority which had just purchased the 37 mile former Wabash line between Chillicothe and Brunswick, Missouri from Norfolk Southern. Interchanges were with Iowa Chicago & Eastern at Chillicothe, BNSF at Sumner and Norfolk Southern at Brunswick. The CBRM was leased to Wabash & Grand River Railway in 1990 but following the Great Midwest Floods of 1993, the W&GR lease was canceled due to flood damage to sections of the line. CBRM resumed operating the line on their own and had some success increasing traffic. Then, in a strange move, the development authority sold the railroad to the city of Chillicothe for just $32,500 (less than the scrap value of a GP9.) By 2004, the 30 miles of line on the Brunswick end had been closed and in 2006 the city of Chillicothe sold that segment to Montoff Transportation (ostensibly a dismantler) for nearly a million dollars. The remaining seven miles of line in Chillicothe is now operated as the Missouri North Central Railroad.

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