Information about MINNESOTA’S RAILROADS

2011-2012

http.www.minnesotarailroads.com MINNESOTA’S RAILROADS AT A GLANCE Number of railroads 19 Total mileage (8th in the nation) 4,393 Total carloads carried 2,994,400 Total tons of freight carried 203,150,000 Employees (13th in the nation) 4,222 Total wages paid $305,400,000 Average wages per employee, and fringe benefits $99,480 Railroad retirees 15,149 Payments to retirees $270.3 million Property taxes (paid in 2010) $28,900,000 Percent of Top commodities originated in state Carloads State’s total Iron ore/taconite 413,600 49% Farm products 152,700 23% Food products 86,900 11% Stone, sand, gravel 36,600 5% Chemicals 21,500 3% All other 181,900 10% TOTAL (6th in the nation) 893,300

Top commodities terminated in state Iron ore/taconite 365,800 46% Coal 142,300 28% Farm products 41,400 7% Chemicals 30,100 5% Stone, sand, gravel 19,600 2% All other 200,800 13% TOTAL (11th in the nation) 800,100

Source: Association of American Railroads for the year 2009

Cover photo: A Minnesota Northern freight train near the Wilds industrial yard in southwest Crookston, Minn. Photo taken December 29, 2009 by Carl Becker.

2 Introduction Minnesota’s Railroads — Contributing to the Economic Vitality of the State

ailroads have been a part of the Minnesota Mesabi Iron Range to Lake Superior ports and inland landscape since the first train operated steel mills, enabling Minnesota’s mining industry to R between St. Paul and St. Anthony (now Min- remain competitive in world markets. neapolis) in 1862. Railroads helped build the state, reaching west from the Mississippi and St. Croix riv- Each year, Minnesota’s railroads move thousands ers, where goods were offloaded onto rail cars for of containers of freight that otherwise would move by settlers to move west and north. For nearly 150 years, truck. By keeping this freight on the rails rather than railroads have contributed to the economic well the road, there is less pollution and highway damage being of the state by providing vital transportation — saving Minnesota taxpayers millions of dollars services to its citizens and industries, while paying in highway maintenance costs. Railroads are also millions of dollars to the state in taxes. fuel-efficient, which helps to conserve energy and reduce pollution. According to the U.S. Department Railroads provide important commercial links of Energy, railroads are four times more fuel efficient for Minnesota farmers, the taconite industry, man- than trucks and roughly equal to waterborne freight. ufacturers, and other businesses. Since railroads Emissions from railroad locomotives are 75 percent are able to move goods at very competitive rates, less than trucks, according to the U.S. Environmental they are able to hold down costs for shippers, which Protection Agency. helps promote stability and economic growth in greater Minnesota. For example, the cost of shipping Minnesota’s railroads are rarely in the spotlight, agricultural products by rail is much less than the but go about their business quietly and efficiently. cost of shipping by truck, which helps farmers earn This CD provides background information about higher profits and lowers the costs of products for the railroad companies that operate in the state. consumers. Included are maps, a list of major commodities they carry, railroads’ economic contribution to the state Minnesota railroads provide a vital pathway for and communities they serve, and a list of key per- the movement of taconite pellets from plants on the sonnel at each company.

DID YOU KNOW …

● Minnesota railroads rank first in the nation in the number of tons of iron ore originated, third in origination of food products and fourth in the origination of farm products.

● A railroad car typically handles three times more freight than the average large truck.

● Railroads are roughly four times more fuel efficient than trucks and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent.

● According to the Federal Railroad Administration, railroads have increased fuel efficiency 104 percent since 1980—doubling their freight volume using the same amount of fuel.

3 Index SUBJECT PAGE Amtrak 27 Minnesota Northern Railroad Company 17 American Short Line and Regional Railroad Assn. 4 Minnesota Prairie Line Inc. 18 Association of American Railroads 4 Minnesota Regional Railroads Association 4 BNSF Railway (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) 6 Minnesota Southern Railway 19 CN (Canadian National) 8 North Shore Scenic Railroad 27 Canadian Pacific Railway 10 Northern Lines Railway 20 Carloadings 2 Northern Plains Railroad, Inc. 21 Class I, II and III railroads 5 Otter Tail Valley Railroad 22 Cloquet Terminal Railroad Company Inc. 14 Progressive Rail Incorporated 23 Commodities handled (total for state) 2 Property taxes 2 Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (CP) 10 Red River Valley & Western Railroad 24 Employees 2 Retirees 2 Federal Railroad Administration 4 Soo Line Railroad (CP) 10 Iowa, Chicago & Eastern (CP) 10 St. Croix Valley Railroad 25 Introduction 3 Twin Cities & Western Railroad 26 Mileage (by carrier) 5 Twin Cities railroad map 28 Minnesota Commercial Railway 15 Union Pacific Railroad 12 Minnesota, Dakota & Western Railway 16 Wages paid (total for state) 2 Minnesota DOT - Office of Frt., RRs & Waterways 4 Websites 4

Websites of Minnesota Railroads RAILROADS: Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corp.): Otter Tail Valley Railroad http://www.amtrak.com http://www.railamerica.com BNSF Railway: Progressive Rail: http://www.bnsf.com http://www.progressiverail.com CN: Red River Valley & Western Railroad Company: http://www.cn.ca http://www.rrvw.net Canadian Pacific Railway: Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company: http://www.cpr.ca http://www.tcwr.net Minnesota Commercial: Union Pacific Railroad: http://www.mnnr.net http://www.uprr.com Minnesota Prairie Line: http://www.tcwr.net/mpl RAILrOAD OrGANIZATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS: American Short Line and Regional RRs Assn: Northern Lines Railway: http://www.aslrra.org http://www.anacostia.com/nlr/nlr.html Association of American Railroads: Northern Plains Railroad: http://www.aar.org http://www.nprail.com Federal Railroad Administration: North Shore Scenic Railroad: http://www.fra.dot.gov http://www.northshorescenicrailroad.org MN DOT, Off. of Freight, Railroads & Waterways: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aboutrail MN Regional Railroads Association: http://www.minnesotarailroads.com

4 Minnesota Railroads and Mileage

In 2011, there are 19 railroad companies oper- While some of these smaller lines have existed inde- ating in Minnesota on 4,393 route miles of track. A pendently for years, most were created in the 1980s total of 3,666 miles, or 83 percent of the mileage, is following passage of the Staggers Act, which helped owned by the state’s Class I railroads. restore railroads to proftability by freeing them from overregulation. Railroads are divided into three “classes” by the Surface Transportation Board (STB), which replaced All carrier-owned railroad track in Minnesota the Interstate Commerce Commission as the federal must comply with safety standards set forth by the economic regulator of railroads. Based on 2010 sta- Federal Railroad Administration and is subject to tistics, Class I railroads are those that had annual periodic inspections. About two-thirds of the track operating revenue of $378.8 million or more. in the state is FRA Class 3 or 4, permitting freight trains to operate at speeds up to 40 and 60 mph, re- Class II railroads have annual operating revenue spectively. All railroad equipment must also comply between $30.3 million and $378.8 million. In addition, with federal safety standards, including regular main- Minnesota has 14 Class III railroads, which have an- tenance. In addition, railroad operating personnel nual operating revenue of less than $30.3 million. must be familiar with FRA rules and regulations and “Regional railroads” are line-haul carriers operating successfully complete training on safety and oper- at least 350 miles of road and/or earning revenue ex- ating rules. Locomotive engineers must be certified ceeding $40 million, but less than a Class I. Regional by the FRA in order to operate a locomotive and go and short-line railroads generally are lighter-density through recertification every three years. lines that have been spun off by a Class I carrier.

Minnesota’s Railroads Railroad Mileage owned in Minnesota Class I

BNSF Railway (BNSF) 1,584 Minnesota Southern Railroad Co. (MSWY) 42 Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) 1,222 St. Croix Valley Railroad (SCXY) 36 CN (Canadian National Railway) 425 Minnesota Commercial Railway Co. (MNNR) 35 Union Pacific Railroad (UP) 435 North Shore Scenic Railroad (NSSR) 25 National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) 0 (St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Rail Authority between Duluth and Two Harbors) Class II Northern Lines Railway, LLC (NLR) 23 Cloquet Terminal Railroad Co. (CTRR) 4 Minnesota, Dakota & Western Ry. Co. (MDW) 4 Class III Red River Valley & Western Railroad (RRVW) 2

Twin Cities & Western Railroad Co. (TCWR) 146 Minnesota Northern Railroad (MNN) 120 Minnesota Prairie Line Inc. (MPLI) 94 Progressive Rail Inc. (PGR) 80 Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 71 Northern Plains Railroad (NPR) 45

5 SM BNSF in Minnesota BNSF Trackage rights RAILWAY To Winnipeg MANITOBA Noyes

International Falls ONTARIO Warren Grand Forks East Grand Forks Crookston To Minot

Bemidji Hibbing Virginia

Grand Rapids To Minot FARGO Dilworth DULUTH Detroit Lakes To Mandan Moorhead Cloquet SUPERIOR Staples Breckenridge Brainerd Camp Ripley

N. DAKOTA Little Falls

Browns Valley Morris ST. CLOUD Cambridge

Ortonville Benson To Aberdeen Monticello WISCONSIN Litchfield Delano Madison Willmar ST. PAUL To Watertown Granite Falls MINNEAPOLIS Hanley Falls

Marshall

Mankato Pipestone Winona ROCHESTER La Crosse

To Sioux City IOWA S. DAKOTA To Chicago

6 BNSF RAILWAY BNSF Railway Website: http://www.bnsf.com 2650 Lou Menk Drive, 2nd Floor P.O. Box 96105, Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057 Contacts: Brian J. Sweeney, State Government Affairs Phone: (651) 298-2458 325 Cedar St., Ste. 620 Fax: (651) 298-7352 St. Paul, MN 55101 E-mail: [email protected] Customer Service Phone: 1-888-428-2673 Industrial Development, Grace Kung (817) 867-6889, [email protected] Media Relations, Amy McBeth (763) 782-3212, [email protected]

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation In addition to money spent in Minnesota, other through its subsidiary, The BNSF Railway Company, BNSF projects benefit the state and its shippers. For operates one of the largest railroad networks in example, in the past ten years, BNSF has spent more North America with 32,000 route miles serving 28 than $1 billion just to acquire new covered hopper states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF covers cars, which give Minnesota grain producers the the western two-thirds of the United States, stretch- benefits of shipping in more modern, higher capacity ing from major ports in the Pacific Northwest and cars. Since 1996, BNSF has purchased more than 3,500 Southern California to the Midwest, Southeast and new locomotives, increasing the horsepower of the Southwest, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. fleet and improving fuel efficiency. BNSF was created on September 22, 1995, from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. (parent company BNSF’s largest predecessor, Burlington Northern, of Burlington Northern Railroad) and Santa Fe Pacifc was formed on March 2, 1970 through the merger Corporation (parent company of the Atchison, To- of the Burlington, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, peka and Santa Fe Railway). The company has more and Spokane, Portland & Seattle railways. Both Great than 40,000 employees. Northern and Northern Pacific had extensive rail net- works in the state. BNSF is the largest railroad in Minnesota and has 1,757 employees and 1,584 miles of track. The railroad is the largest transporter of grain by rail in BNSF in Minnesota North America, operating 33,000 grain cars. Miles of track owned: 1,584 BNSF originated 306,526 carloads of freight in Employees: 1,757 Minnesota in 2010 with 286,610 carloads terminating Payroll (2009): $120 million in the state. Principal commodities originating in Min- nesota included taconite, farm products, food prod- Minnesota taxes paid: $25 million ucts, pulp and paper, and chemicals. Commodities (Property, sales, income, etc.) terminating in the state include coal, farm products, Rail Yards: Dilworth, Minneapolis, lumber, pulp and paper, chemicals and food products. St. Paul, Willmar BNSF trains also carry much of the United Parcel Intermodal Hub Centers: Dilworth, St. Paul Service traffic in and out of the Twin Cities. Shops: Brainerd, Dilworth, In the last five years, BNSF has spent more than Minneapolis $321 million on capital improvements in Minnesota, Administrative offices: St. Paul primarily for track and capacity improvements.

7 To Winnipeg

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Orr ALBERT LEA KOOCHICHING

FREEBORN MOWER Cook I T A S C A Minorca London Emco Virginia GilbertMcKinley Biwabik Mesaba Mt Iron Shelton ra Wyman e ro by Allen Jct. u ol Glenville Wolf A C Skibo Lyle lerain Buhl Spruce Myrtle MINNESOTA Iron Jct. Fairbanks lumet-Marbleengilly P BNSF Keenan L A K E Ca pen ood Bovey-Co il Forbes Peary Breda IOWA HibbingW Sherw Fairlane Jordan Zim Central Brimson Lakes Norshor Jct. Melrude McNair Sax Whiteface Wales Kelsey Highland Payne Shaw To Waldo Waterloo Alborn Taft Two Harbors Burnett Bartlett Saginaw Munger NSSR S T . L O U I S LAKE SUPERIOR AdolphProctor Dresser Nopeming Jct. DULUTH C A R L E T O N Brewer Steelton Osceola Oliver SUPERIOR, WI a

WASHINGTON Pokegam Saunders Peyton To Chicago Copas Ambridge M I N N E S O T A W I S C O N S I N Marine

HENNEPIN Maple Island

RAMSEY Withrow To Stevens Point, CPR Chicago Humboldt Yard New Brighton St. Paul WISCONSIN Minneapolis MNNR Yard

CN

Trackage rights

8 CN

CN Phone: 1-800-452-7332, ext. 3508 Southern Region (708) 332-3508 17641 South Ashland Ave. Website: http://www.cn.ca Homewood, IL 60430-1345 Contacts: Patrick Waldron Phone: (708) 332-4377 Mgr. Public Affairs Cell: (708) 990-5771 FAX: (708) 332-4361 E-mail: [email protected]

Paul Hackett, Superintendent Phone: (218) 628-4106 Proctor Transportation Office Cell: (218) 410-1363 1052 Railroad Avenue FAX: (218) 628-4152 Proctor, MN 55810 E-mail: [email protected]

CN operates approximately 20,000 route miles decessor companies dating back to 1901. The DWP of line in the U.S. and Canada and is the only rail was incorporated in 1912 under the control of the network that connects all three coasts: the Pacific, Canadian Northern, which had constructed the line the Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico. CN has approxi- south of Lake of the Woods through Minnesota in mately 22,300 employees. 1900 under its subsidiary Minnesota & Manitoba. Ca- nadian Northern became part of CN in 1919, but its In November 1995, the CN became a publicly U.S. subsidiaries (Grand Trunk Western and the DWP) owned company with U.S. shareholders owning retained their separate identities into the 1990s. about two-thirds of the stock. CN acquired control of Illinois Central Corp. in July 1999. In October Wisconsin Central’s roots go back more than a 2001, CN acquired Wisconsin Central Transporta- century to 1871, when the original Wisconsin Central tion Corporation. On May 10, 2004, CN acquired the Railway was formed. It was operated by the Soo Line Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway from Great (now Canadian Pacific) from 1909 until 1987, when it Lakes Transportation LLC. The Duluth, Winnipeg was acquired by WC. & Pacific Railway, which has been a CN subsidiary since 1912, was integrated into CN’s U.S. operations The Cedar River Railroad was an Illinois Central in the 1990s. subsidiary until mid-1999, when IC merged with CN. CEDR track extends north from CN’s Chicago-Omaha CN’s principal main line in Minnesota extends main line at Waterloo, Iowa to Glenville, Minn, near across the northeastern part of the state via the Albert Lea. Total mileage is 102, including 19 miles Duluth/Superior gateway, providing an essential link of track in Minnesota. between Western Canada and the Midwest. Another CN main line connects the Twin Cities with central Wisconsin, Green Bay and Chicago. Other CN lines in the Upper Midwest serve Michigan’s Upper Peninsula CN in Minnesota and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Miles of track owned: 425 The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range was formed Employees: 465 in 1938 when the Duluth, Missabe and Northern and Principal commodities: Grain, lumber, potash, the Duluth and Iron Range merged. With the acqui- wood pulp, sulphur, paper products, sition of the DMIR, CN has become the largest rail iron ore, fertilizer, coal, petroleum coke carrier of iron ore in North America.

Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific started as a logging railroad serving mills in the Virginia area with pre-

9 Canadian Pacific in Minnesota CP Trackage rights

To Winnipeg MANITOBA

Noyes

International Falls ONTARIO

Thief River Falls Grand Plummer Forks Plummer Gully Erskine Bemidji Virginia Hibbing Grand Rapids

FARGO DULUTH Detroit Lakes 6,456,530 Cloquet NORTH DAKOTA SUPERIOR

Brainerd To Minot, Portal Alexandria Glenwood ST. CLOUD Cambridge WISCONSIN

Paynesville Dresser Buffalo Andover Rockford MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL Hopkins Hastings Shakopee RosemountRosemount Sleepy EyeNew Ulm LambertonSpringfield Farmington Red Wing

S. DAKOTA Balaton Savage Dodge Center Lake City Trac Janesville Owatonna Northfield To Rapid Waseca Claremont Wabasha City y Lake Benton Eyota Minnesota City WinnebagWinnebagoMankato Winona Hayward WelcomWelcomeFairmonGranadGranada ROCHESTER SherbuSherbur New Richland Blooming La Crosse Alpha o Hartland La Crescent a Prairie rnn e t DelavanEastonWellsWell Brownsville To Chicago Jackson Alden AlbertAustin a s Albert Lea

IOWA To Mason City To Quad Cities, Chicago, Kansas City

10 CANADIAN PACIFIC Canadian Pacific Phone: 1-800-766-7912 501 Marquette Avenue South Website: http://www.cpr.ca Suite 1525 Minneapolis, MN 55402

Contacts: Herb M. Jones, Government Affairs Phone: (605) 782-1223 T. J. Nelson, Municipal Affairs (605) 782-1222 Ed Greenberg, Communications (612) 851-5616 Lin Gartner, Commercial Development (612) 904-5932 Jim Krieger, Public Works Engineer (612) 904-5994

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited operates a the Soo from Owatonna to Mason City, Iowa, Austin 14,800-mile rail network linking the principal cities to Minnesota Lake and Jackson, Minn.; and south of of Canada from Montreal to Vancouver, and the U.S. LaCrescent, along the Mississippi River. Midwest and Northeast. CP’s U.S. operations are conducted by its subsidiaries: Soo Line; Dakota, Although system operations are fully integrated Minnesota & Eastern; and the Delaware and Hudson with CP, Soo Line and DM&E remain as separate Railway. Alliances with other carriers extend CP’s companies due to different laws, labor contracts and market reach throughout the U.S. and into Mexico. other unique characteristics in the U.S.

CP’s freight traffic generated revenues of C$4.9 CP’s administrative departments, equipment billion in 2010 of which 43 percent came from bulk maintenance, train dispatching and crew calling fa- products such as grain, coal, sulfur and fertilizers. cilities are concentrated in Minnesota. The railway’s Carload shipments of industrial and consumer prod- U.S. training facility for locomotive engineers and ucts, automotive and forest products accounted conductors is located in the Twin Cities and uses for 29 percent of CP’s revenues. The remaining 28 state of the art simulators and other equipment to percent came from intermodal traffic moving in con- prepare and certify crews for their assignments. tainers and trailers. CP operates an intermodal terminal in Minne- CP operates a fleet of 1,703 locomotives, of which apolis, loading highway trailers and international 61 percent are AC traction locomotives acquired containers, which flow across the world to and from since 1995 and designed to improve overall fuel ef- Minnesota. Adjacent to the intermodal site is a facility ficiency and reliability. CP’s freight car fleet totals for transloading goods between trucks and freight 56,200 cars. cars. CP also operates a large distribution center for new and used automobiles at Cottage Grove, CP owns and operates 1,222 miles of track in Min- where hundreds of vehicles arrive by train and are nesota with major classification yards at Minneapolis, transferred to highway auto carriers to take them to St. Paul and Glenwood. CP also has major locomotive dealers across five states. and freight car repair facilities in St. Paul, where shop capacity has been expanded several times. CP in Minnesota CP has held a major stake in the Soo Line since 1888 and purchased full control of the railroad in Miles of track owned: 1,222 1990. The Soo Line operates 750 miles in Minnesota Operated under trackage rights: 520 from the Mississippi River at La Crosse through the Employees: 1,671 Twin Cities and north to North Dakota and Canada. Soo Line also accesses Duluth-Superior. Payroll excluding benefits (2010): $95.2 million Major employment locations: Glenwood, In October 2008, CP assumed operational con- Minneapolis, St. Paul, trol of the DM&E Railroad. Operating 472 miles in Thief River Falls Minnesota, DM&E’s main line begins in Winona and stretches west to the Black Hills of South Dakota. DM&E lines also include track previously owned by

11 Union Pacific in Minnesota Union Pacific Trackage rights

MANITOBA

International Falls ONTARIO

Grand Forks

Virginia Hibbing Grand Rapids

FARGO DULUTH Moorhead

SUPERIOR Brainerd NORTH DAKOTA NORTH

Little Falls

ST. CLOUD Cambridge WISCONSIN

AUL Bayport Plymouth ST. PAULP Hudson MINNEAPOLIS To Chicago Chaska South St. Paul Shakopee Belle Plaine Rosemount New Prague Cannon Falls Le Sueur Montgomery Northfield St. Peter Faribault Madelia Mankato Owatonna Butterfield Winona La Windom St. James Hartland Ellendale Crosse

SOUTH DAKOTA Trimont Clarks Grove Blue Earth To Chicago Worthington Welcome Albert Lea Fairmont Bricelyn

To Sioux City IOWA To Mason City

12 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Union Pacific Railroad Phone: (402) 544-5000 1400 Douglas Street 1-888-870-8777 Omaha, NE 68179 Website: http://www.uprr.com

Contacts: Phones: FAX: Jim Harrel, Real Estate Sales—Omaha (402) 544-8557 (402) 501-0340 Rod Peterson, Property Leases—Omaha (402) 544-8644 (402) 501-0340 Mark Davis, Corporate Relations—Omaha (402) 544-5459 (402) 501-0011 Mike Blackley, Public Engineering—Omaha (402) 544-8144 (402) 233-2892 Wayne Borg, Industrial Develop.—Woodridge, IL (630) 427-2355 (402) 233-3356 Michael Payette, Government Affairs, Suite 1910 (312) 777-2000 (312) 777-2020 101 North Wacker Drive; Chicago, IL 60606

Union Pacific Railroad (UP), a subsidiary of In 2010, UP originated 141,766 carloads of freight Union Pacific Corporation, operates in the western in Minnesota with 81,547 carloads terminating in two-thirds of the United States. UP serves 23 states the state. Principal commodities handled by the with 32,000 miles of track linking every major West Union Pacific in Minnesota include coal, taconite, Coast and Gulf Coast port. agricultural products, automobiles and sand. UP serves unit train shippers in prime corn and soybean Union Pacific traces its history back more than areas including flour mills, malt houses, soybean pro- 140 years when it was created to build the first trans- cessors and many rail-to-river transfer stations. Also, continental railroad, which was completed on May 10, UP is serving the rapidly growing ethanol market in 1869. All of UP’s Minnesota trackage was part of the southern Minnesota. former Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW), which was purchased by UP in 1995. The company The railroad’s top customers in Minnesota employs about 48,000 people. are Xcel Energy and Unimin. Unimin is the largest producer of industrial sand in the U.S. Its twin sand Union Pacific owns and operates 659 miles of plants at Kasota and Ottawa (both served by UP) track in Minnesota, with 412 employees. In 2010 in represent the largest production facilities for frac Minnesota, the company had a payroll of $32.4 mil- sand in the nation. Inbound shipments of Mazda, lion, and made purchases totaling $83.8 million. Mitsubishi and Toyota automobiles are handled at the railroad’s Drake Street ramp in St. Paul. Union Pacific owns two busy rail corridors in the southern portion of Minnesota. The “Spine Line” runs south from the Twin Cities to Kansas City, Mo. The other major corridor runs southwest from the Twin Union Pacific in Minnesota Cities through Mankato and Worthington to Sioux City, Iowa. This line has been extensively rebuilt with Miles of track owned: 435 new ties, ballast and welded rail since it was acquired from the C&NW. UP also has trackage rights over the Employees: 412 BNSF Railway from the Twin Cities to Duluth. Payroll (2010): $32.4 million Purchases from MN vendors: $83.8 million The transportation and engineering departments that oversee the track territory in Minnesota, north- Rail yards: Albert Lea, East Minneapolis, ern Iowa and Wisconsin are part of the “Twin Cities Mankato, Savage, St. Paul, South St. Paul Service Unit,” which is based in St. Paul. Between Auto distribution facility: St. Paul (Drake Street) 2004 and 2010, Union Pacific made $100 million of capital improvements to its Minnesota lines. UP’s Administrative offices: St. Paul equipment fleet benefits the state. UP owns 8,200 locomotives.

13 CLOQUET TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY INC. 315 St. Louis Avenue Phone: (218) 878-0604 Dunlap Island FAX: (218) 879-6558 Cloquet, MN 55720 E-mail: [email protected]

Contact: Robert Purcell, Resident Manager

The Cloquet Terminal Railroad Company (CTRR), a subsidiary of Sappi Fine Paper North America, owns CTRR in Minnesota four miles of track in the city of Cloquet. The railroad Miles of track owned: 4 has running rights on about 20 miles of yard track in Cloquet, and interchanges traffic with the BNSF Employees: 23 Railway and Canadian Pacific. Locomotives: 3 The railroad has 23 full-time employees: 20 Total carloads: 10,000 hourly and 3 salaried. The company owns three diesel Principal commodities: Logs, paper products locomotives: two 600-h.p. units and one 1,000-h.p. and pulp unit. CTRR owns 160 freight cars, including 75 used Administrative offices: Cloquet exclusively to serve the Sappi mill.

Cloquet Terminal’s major shipper is Sappi. The railroad also serves the United States Gypsum (USG) factory in Cloquet, which makes ceiling tiles. CTRR handles approximately 10,000 cars per year.

BNSF To Grand Forks

St. Lou is Ri ver CTRR Shops Sappi Mill

CTRR/BNSF interchange

CLOQUET

BNSF To Duluth/Superior

14 MINNESOTA COMMERCIAL RAILWAY 508 Cleveland Avenue North Phone: (651) 632-9000 St. Paul, MN 55114 FAX: (651) 646-8337 Website: http://www.mnnr.net Contact: Wayne Hall, Director of Operations Phone: (651) 632-9022. [email protected] Joe Richardson, Dir. of Finance & Asst. to Pres. (651) 632-9008 John Walsh, Chief Mechanical Officer-Locomotives (651) 632-9020

The Minnesota Commercial Railway (MNNR) The railroad serves 130 customers including operates on 122 miles of track (including operating seven grain elevators and two flour mills in the Twin rights on other railroads) in Anoka, Hennepin, Cities. Major customers include: RockTenn, Andersen Ramsey and Washington counties. Minnesota Com- Window, several Weyerhaeuser plants and the Hugo mercial connects with all Twin Cities railroads. and Roseville industrial parks.

MNNR extends the railroad’s economic benefits The Minnesota Commercial began operations to non-rail served customers through truck-rail trans- in 1987 when it acquired the Minnesota Transfer load programs. Commercial Transload of Minnesota Railway Company—at the time handling only 8,000 operates a 60,000 sq. ft. warehouse that specializes revenue units. In 2010, the Minnesota Commercial in handling heavy steel and other materials. CTM handled more than 41,000 revenue units. In the past Trucklines, Inc. operates 18 trucks handling steel, three years, Minnesota Commercial has spent about lumber, heavy equipment and other commodities. $6 million for capital improvements. A warehouse, transload facility and team track in Fridley offer reload services for much of the metro The Minnesota Transfer Railway was incorpo- area. rated in 1883 as a switching line and was owned by the major railroads in the Twin Cities area. Rail lines The railroad serves a total of ten Minnesota com- operated today by Minnesota Commercial include munities with a main line extending from St. Paul into those acquired from the old Minnesota Transfer in the northern suburbs of Anoka County and east to 1987, plus lines from other Class I carriers. Bayport and Hugo. Minnesota Commercial trains also use BNSF, Canadian Pacifc, and Union Pacific tracks to reach other carriers’ yards in Minneapolis and St. Fridley Hugo Paul for interchange. Amtrak trains travel over the Minnesota Commercial to reach the Midway depot in White Bear Lake St. Paul. In addition, MNNR services Amtrak trains. Arden Hills

MNNR in Minnesota New Brighton Little Canada Miles of track owned: 35

Employees: 88 Belt Line Roseville Crossing Annual payroll: $4.7 million Total revenue units (2010): 41,312 Minnesota Commercial Trackage Rights Commodities carried: Lumber, steel, paper, BNSF wines and beers, potash, Northtown To Bayport Yard consumer goods UP-BNSF Number of locomotives: 32 UP MINNEAPOLIS Amtrak depot Freight cars: 80 ST. PAUL Merriam Park CPR

CP St. Paul Yard UP Belt Yard

15 MINNESOTA, DAKOTA & WESTERN RAILWAY 101 2nd Street Phone: (218) 285-5290 International Falls, MN 56649 FAX: (218) 285-5742

Contact: Darwin Joslyn, General Manager E-mail: [email protected]

The Minnesota, Dakota & Western Railway The Minnesota, Dakota & Western dates to (MD&W) serves a vital role in northern Minnesota’s August 15, 1910 and is one of the last vestiges of papermaking industry by providing rail service to Minnesota’s once vast logging railroad system. Its paper mills in International Falls, Minn. and Fort predecessor, the International Bridge & Terminal Frances, Ontario. Company, was incorporated in 1906.

The railway switches pulpwood, chemicals and other raw materials used in the papermaking process and removes the finished paper products MD&W in Minnesota for interchange with the CN. The MD&W has a fleet of 2,000 freight cars, which helps assure prompt, Miles of track owned: 4 cost-effective rail service for Boise, Inc.—the largest Employees: 33 employer in Koochiching County and the owner of the railway. Revenue units (2010): 10,000 Commodities carried: Wood pulp, pulpwood, Minnesota, Dakota & Western consists of four chemicals, other raw materials route miles of track and four locomotives. A modern and finished paper products car and locomotive shop has been constructed by the Number of freight cars: 2,000 railway at International Falls. All track and equipment is operated and maintained locally by a work force Number of locomotives: 4 of 33 employees. MD&W invests $200,000 annually to Payroll: (2010) $2,300,000 improve track, machinery and vehicles. The company Headquarters, rail yard, shops: handled 10,000 carloads in 2010, mostly related to pa- per or paper products. Along with its rail operation, International Falls the MD&W operates an Intermodal Hub Center with CN to transport paper shipments from International Falls, Fort Frances and Kenora.

ONTARIO Rainy CN to Lake Winnipeg Ft. Frances Ranier Falls Jct. International Falls

MD&W Railway CN/BNSF to a Boise Company Duluth-Superior

KOOCHICHING

16 MINNESOTA NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY P.O. Box 705 (mailing address) Phone: 1-888-200-0415 1420 S. Main St. (218) 281-4704 Crookston, MN 56716 FAX: (218) 281-4705 Contacts: Lee Lautt, Manager Administration & Marketing Phone: (218) 281-1750 E-mail: [email protected] Richard Spiering, Operations Supervisor E-mail: [email protected] LeAnn Halland, Customer Service E-mail: [email protected] The Minnesota Northern Railroad Company (MNN) was formed in December 1996 when the Minnesota Northern in Minnesota company purchased 204 miles of track from the BNSF Railway. Lines extend from Crookston north Miles of track owned: 120 to Roseau and St. Hilaire, south from Crookston Employees: 18 to Shelly and east to Tilden Junction. Minnesota Payroll: (2010) $750,000 Northern also serves the “Wilds” industrial yard in the southwest corner of Crookston. Total carloads: 9,000 Commodities: Grain, seeds, Minnesota Northern connects with BNSF at sugar and sugar by-products, Crookston and CP at Thief River Falls. Total mileage aggregates, coal, feeds, fertilizers owned and operated is 197, including trackage rights over other railroads. Number of locomotives: 10

Based in Crookston, Minnesota Northern has Number of freight cars: 40 18 employees and handles approximately 9,000 Headquarters, rail yards, shops: Crookston carloads annually. Principal commodities carried are grain, seeds, sugar and sugar by-products, ag- gregates, coal, feeds and fertilizers.

LAKE OF The company has ten locomotives; freight cars THE WOODS are supplied by BNSF or CP and MNN has leased 40 grain hopper cars. Minnesota Roseau Northern grain customers can reach mar- kets throughout North America, via MNN’s Badger connections with BNSF and CP. Greenbush K I T T S O N Strathcona R O S E A U

Middle River

Holt M A R S H A L L A NO OT R S T Thief River Falls E H

N E St. Hilaire PENNINGTON R

N BNSF to I

N Grand Forks R E D L A K E

T M H E E N I N L OR R Crookston R TH STA A D Eldred ILROA Climax Tilden Jct. Erskine Nielsville Beltrami P O L K Shelly

N O R M A N M A H N O M E N

17 MINNESOTA PRAIRIE LINE INC. 2925 12th Street East Phone: (320) 864-7200 Glencoe, MN 55336 Website: http://www.tcwr.net/mpl FAX: (320) 864-7220 Contacts: Mark Wegner, President (320) 864-7204 [email protected] Craig Glaeser, Dir. Marketing & Sales (320) 864-7206 [email protected] Robin Bergeron, Director, Sales (320) 864-7211 [email protected] Bob Suko, Gen. Manager, Operations (320) 864-7210 [email protected] Tim Jeske, Dir. Mechanical & Maintenance (320) 864-7214 [email protected]

Minnesota Valley Regional Rail Authority Julie Rath, Administrator for MVRRA (507) 637-4084 [email protected] Bob Fox, Chair, MVRRA Website: http://www.mvrra.org

The Minnesota Prairie Line Inc. (MPL), is a Prior to MPL’s operation of the rail line, it was wholly owned subsidiary of the Twin Cities & West- operated by a series of short lines following abandon- ern Railroad based in Glencoe, Minn. MPL serves ment by the Chicago and North Western in 1980. The some of the most productive agricultural counties of line was originally part of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Minnesota. MPL is the operator on 94 miles of track Railway’s line to the Missouri River. between Norwood and Hanley Falls, Minn., which is owned by the Minnesota Valley Regional Railroad Authority (MVRRA). MPL in Minnesota Restoration started in April 2002 and MPL be- gan operations in October 2002. With restoration of Miles of track operated: 94 dependable service, rail traffic has been increasing Locomotives 2 year after year. Annual track upgrades are being Freight cars: 175 made with a goal of achieving 25 mph operation by 2011 from Winthrop east to Norwood. MPL works in Total carloads: More than 6,000 partnership with the MVRRA and the communities it Commodities: Grains, fertilizer, biodiesel, serves to enhance rural economic development. canned vegetables, DDGs, ethanol, salt and butter MPL is the first railroad in Minnesota and the Headquarters: Glencoe first in the nation to operate locomotives using five percent biodiesel fuel, which is supplied by FUMPA Maintenance shops: Glencoe, Morton Biofuels—an MPL customer in Redwood Falls.

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rtonville OrtonvilleO ANOKA Odessa SWIFT KANDYOHI WASHINGTON Appleton n HENNEPIN MINNEAPOLIS atsonCHIPPEWA Milbank Mila W MINNESOTA n s ST. PAUL North Camden MontevioMontevideo RAMSEY dahl eart HopkinsHopkin LAC QUI PARLE g H e Pigs Eye/ We Chanhasse Granite Falls Daytons Bluff Minnesota Falls Jonathan MinnesotaSacred FallsRenville HeartRuebelDanub yards Olivia Bird Island yards Hector Plato NorwoodBongardsCologne Buffalo LakeStewart Brownton GLENCOEGLE Hanley Falls Savage CARVER SOUTH YELLOW MEDICINE RENVILLE MCLEOD Hamburg SCOTT DAKOTA DAKOTA SIBLEY Green Isle Lake Echo ES ood Lake N O W Belview Delhi Minnesota Prairie Line N T orton throp Arlington I REDWOOD aylord A M Fairfax ininthrop GGaylord Twin Cities & Western Franklin Gibbon M W Trackage rights

Redwood Falls

P R A I E RIE LIN

18 MINNESOTA SOUTHERN RAILWAY, INC. 106 East Fletcher Street Phone: (507) 283-4269 P.O. Box 562 FAX: (507) 283-4272 Luverne, MN 56156

Contact: Brent Polanchek

The Minnesota Southern Railway (MSWY) op- and is privately owned. The track is owned by a re- erates freight service on 42 miles of track from a gional rail authority, and is operated by Minnesota connection with the Union Pacific at Agate (south of Southern under a 20-year lease agreement. The line Worthington) to a connection with the BNSF Railway from Agate to Manley once belonged to the Chicago, at Manley. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (later part of the Chicago and North Western) and was part of a Minnesota Southern is based in Luverne and em- branch line from Worthington to Sioux Falls, S.D. ploys seven people. The railroad operates in Nobles and Rock counties and serves seven Minnesota com- munities. Principal commodities carried include ani- mal feed, ethanol, fertilizer, and waste oil. Minnesota MSWY in Minnesota Southern carried 625 carloads in 2010, which helped keep 2,200 trucks off the highways last year. Miles of track operated: 42 Employees: 7 The railroad is a large contributor to the local Annual purchases: $200,000 economy. In 2010, the company spent approximately $200,000 on purchases in the state. For the last Locomotives 2 five years, the railroad has focused on right-of-way Total carloads 625 improvements. Thousands of new ties have been Commodities: Feed, ethanol, fertilizer, installed, rock ballast distributed to improve drain- waste oil age, and bridges removed. Administrative offices: Luverne The company was founded in November 2001 BNSF to Willmar, Twin Cities

Jasper

SOUTH

DAKOTA ROCK NOBLES UP to Mankato, Garretson Twin Cities LUVERNE Magnolia Adrian Rushmore

Manley Worthington Beaver Creek Agate MINNESOTA SIOUX FALLS Hills

BNSF to UP to Sioux City, IOWA Sioux City, Lincoln Omaha

MINNESOTA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Other railroads

19 NORTHERN LINES RAILWAY, LLC 2015 Sixth Street North Phone: (320) 253-8130 St. Cloud, MN 56303 FAX: (320) 253-5282 Website: http://www.anacostia.com/nlr/nlr.html Contacts: Daniel C. Rickel, President Phone: (320) 253-5983 James Zanoth, Office Manager/Customer Service (320) 253-8130 Justin Chalich, Manager Maintenance/Operations (320) 252-2718 FAX: (320) 259-0395 Northern Lines Railway (NLR) was formed in late Northern Lines has two locomotives and a wide 2004 and on April 23, 2005 began operating on 23 range of freight cars are supplied by BNSF. miles of track leased from BNSF Railway in St. Cloud, Minn., with branch lines extending to St. Joseph and NLR is a member of the Anacostia & Pacific Com- Cold Spring, Minn. pany, Inc. (www.anacostia.com), a transportation and development firm based in Chicago and New York, NLR connects with BNSF at St. Cloud and handles which has developed eight new railroads since it was approximately 8,750 carloads annually, providing formed in 1985. daily switching service to major customers including Borgert Products, Inc., Cold Spring Granite, Elec- At one time, NLR’s lines were operated by the trolux, Maiers Transport & Warehousing, American Great Northern Railway, which was merged into Bur- Iron, Knife River Corp., Manion’s Wholesale Building lington Northern when it was created in 1970. Supply, Mathew Hall Lumber, Northern Metals, Quad Graphics, Martin Marietta, RockTenn and Wenner Gas Co. In addition, NLR offers multiple transload Northern Lines Railway locations for customers lacking a rail siding. Miles of track operated: 23 Since beginning operations in 2005, NLR has com- Employees: 6 pleted a tie replacement project along the St. Joseph Total carloads: 7,500 spur and a switch tie replacement project in the St. Cloud yard. In 2009, NLR constructed about 1.5 miles Locomotives 2 of main track to facilitate a new road in Waite Park. Purchases in Minnesota $250,000 In 2010, Wenner Gas expanded by building a new Principal commodities: Aggregate, scrap steel, rail-served tank car unloading facility in Rockville pulp board, paper and lumber. and closed their operation in Cold Spring. Administrative offices: St. Cloud

BNSF to Fargo, Pacific Northwest RN HE L T IN R E

O S N BENTON R STERNS AILWAY St. Joseph ST. CLOUD

Rockville SHERBURNE Cold Spring

BNSF to Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City

20 NORTHERN PLAINS RAILROAD, INC. 100 Railroad Avenue P.O. Box 38 Phone: (701) 229-3330 Fordville, ND 58231 FAX: (701) 229-3365 Web: www.nprail.com Contacts: Larry R. Jamieson, President [email protected] Jesse J. Chalich, Asst. VP Marketing/Sales [email protected] Robin C. Omdahl, Asst. VP Car Repair [email protected] Todd L. Gullickson, Manager Operations [email protected]

The Northern Plains Railroad was formed in ville, N.D. NPRS is now a M1003 AAR certified shop. January 1997 when the company leased 388 miles In addition, NPRS constructs and maintains tracks of branch lines in Minnesota and North Dakota from on a contract basis. NPRS services locomotives on Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). Lines extend west a contract basis as well. from Thief River Falls to Devils Lake, N.D. and run north and west from Fordville, N.D. to a connection Northern Plains was named 2010 Regional Rail- with the CP at Kenmare, N.D. Northern Plains also road of the Year by Railway Age magazine. connects with CP at Thief River Falls. Northern Plains Based in Fordville N.D., Northern Plains has 63 employees. Northern Plains serves 40 communities, Miles of track: 410 (45 miles in Minnesota) including six in Minnesota. Employees: 63 Payroll (2010) $4.1 million The company has 22 locomotives and 60 freight cars. A majority of freight cars are supplied by CP. Total carloads: 19,828 Northern Plains grain customers can reach all grain Locomotives: 22 markets through NPR’s connections with CP. Freight cars: 60 Northern Plains Rail Services, a NPR affiliate, Principal commodities: Small grains, performs running repairs, contract maintenance aggregates, fertilizer services, and painting for locomotives and freight Administrative offices: Fordville, N.D. cars at its shops located in Erskine, Minn. and Ford-

CPR to Canada

MARSHALL

Radium To North Oslo Viking Dakota Alvarado Warren Points Thief River Falls

PENNINGTON NORTH DAKOTA

POLK R E D L A K E CPR to Twin Cities

21 OTTER TAIL VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY

200 North Mill Street Phone: 1-800-726-7921 Fergus Falls, MN 56537 FAX: (218) 736-7636 Website: http://www.railamerica.com Contact: James Bonner, Assistant General Manager Cell: (218) 205-6448 Troy Dodds, Operations Manager

Otter Tail Valley Railroad Company (OTVR) op- The line now operated by OTVR was once part of erates 71 miles of former Burlington Northern (now the Great Northern Railway’s main line between St. BNSF) trackage between Fergus Falls and Moorhead/ Cloud and Fargo/Moorhead. Great Northern merged Dilworth, Minn. Branch lines extend from Fergus Falls into Burlington Northern when it was created in to French and Hoot Lake, plus a five-mile branch 1970. from Barnesville to Downer. OTVR also serves the Moorhead McCara Industrial Park. There are six com- munities served by the Otter Tail Valley Railroad.

Otter Tail Valley was formed in 1986. RailAmerica, Inc. purchased the railroad in September 1996 from Otter Tail Valley in Minnesota its owners, Anacostia & Pacific Company, Inc. OTVR is one of 43 railroads owned by RailAmerica. Princi- Miles of track owned: 71 pal commodities transported by Otter Tail Valley are Employees: 11 grain, coal and ethanol. The railroad handles approxi- Locomotives: 6 mately 14,000 carloads annually and is locally man- aged. The company owns six 1,750-2,000 h.p. diesel Total carloads: 14,000 locomotives and a fleet of covered hoppers. Other Principal commodities: Grain, coal, ethanol freight cars are supplied through BNSF Railway, or are Administrative offices: Fergus Falls customer leased/owned. OTVR interchanges traffic with BNSF at Dilworth yard, just east of Moorhead.

BNSF to Seattle, South MoorheadDilworth BNSF to Minneapolis–St. Paul Portland

Fargo Sabin Barnesville

Baker Lawndale

Rothsay

Carlisle Hoot Lake

Fergus Falls

NORTH DAKOTA French

SOUTH DAKOTA MINNESOTA

Otter Tail Valley Railroad Trackage rights

22 PROGRESSIVE RAIL INCORPORATED Airlake Industrial Park Phone: (952) 985-7245 21778 Highview Ave. 1-888-PRO-RAIL (776-7245) Lakeville, MN 55044 FAX: (952) 985-7626 E-mail: [email protected] Contacts: Website: http://www.progressiverail.com Dave Fellon, President E-mail: [email protected] Lon Van Gemert, Chief Executive Officer [email protected] Doug Whiteley, Chief Financial Officer [email protected] Duane Jenkins, VP Customer Service [email protected] Jeff Gillman, VP Carload Connection [email protected]

Progressive Rail Incorporated is a contract rail In March 2004, in partnership with the Union carrier that operates nearly 80 miles of line on behalf Pacific, PGR acquired the former Cannon Falls subdi- of the Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific railroads vision and operations to Faribault, Minn. This expan- in the greater Twin Cities area, including operations sion provides PGR with access to over 450 acres of to Cannon Falls, Northfield and Faribault, Minn. Ad- rail-served industrial development property. In May ministration offices are located in Lakeville. 2004, PGR assumed operations of Canadian Pacific’s yard in Northfield, Minn, tying into its current Airlake The railroad has 75 full-time employees and owns Industrial Park operation and the Rosemount to Ea- nine diesel locomotives and a fleet of 12 60-ft. RBL gandale industrial spur. and other equipped boxcars. Progressive Rail also offers transloading services, Progressive Rail began operations on September which allows customers to transfer cargo from rail to 25, 1996 in Airlake Industrial Park in Lakeville, for- truck, as well as provide temporary storage of materi- merly operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway. In als in a heated, 110,000 sq. ft. warehouse. February 2001, Progressive Rail leased nine miles of track from CP, known as the Dan Patch Line, from Bloomington to south Minneapolis. Progressive Rail in Minnesota Miles of track owned and operated: 80 Employees: 75 CPR to Canada Locomotives: 9 ST. PAUL Total carloads: 11,751 MINNEAPOLIS Principal commodities: Forest products, CPR, UP to Chicago cement/flyash, pipe, paper, Richfield plastics, canned goods, Bloomington Eagan chemicals, building products, salt Rosemount Administrative offices: Lakeville Lakeville Randolph Cannon Falls

Northfield PROGRESSIVE RAIL PGR INCORPORATED Trackage rights Other railroads Faribault

UP to Kansas City, Texas

23 RED RIVER VALLEY & WESTERN RAILROAD CO. Contacts: Website: http://www.rrvw.net Andrew J. Thompson, President & CEO P.O. Box 608 Phone: (701) 642-8257 Daniel L. Zink, Director of Administration 116 South Fourth St. FAX: (701) 642-5102 Wahpeton, ND 58074

Sharon Trudell, VP Marketing 501 Minnesota Ave. Phone: (218) 643-4994 Dan Keogh, Manager Transportation Breckenridge, MN 56520 FAX: (218) 643-4980 Cal Gruebele, Manager Track & Structures Dave Volk, Manager - Car Shop

The Red River Valley & Western Railroad Com- road and customers. Specialized equipment includes pany (RRVW) began operations on July 19, 1987 over an automated washer for cleaning tank cars. track acquired from Burlington Northern Railroad (now BNSF). Since then, RRVW has doubled its freight Since 1987, more than $20 million has been allo- volume and has moved more than 883,000 carloads cated for capital projects, including relaying 50 miles of freight for customers. RRVW employs about 100 of track with heavier rail. In addition, RRVW spends people, up from 45 at start-up. about $4 million each year on track maintenance. More than 100 miles of track are surfaced each year RRVW owns or operates on 576 route miles of for smoother operation. track (31 miles in Minnesota, including trackage rights). It is one of the larger of the approximately 550 regional and short line railroads operating in the United States and RRVW was named 2005 Regional RRVW in Minnesota Railroad of the Year by Railway Age. Miles of track owned: 440 (2 in Minnesota) Employees: 100 RRVW presently has about 60 customers in Min- nesota and North Dakota. The railroad serves ap- Total carloads: 55,000 proximately 35 grain elevators (including two shuttle Locomotives 13 train facilities in Breckenridge), which generate more than 50 percent of the traffic. The railroad’s loco- Commodities: Sugar, corn syrup, aggregates, motive shops and a large marshaling yard are located lumber, plastic, fertilizer, in Breckenridge, Minn., while administrative offices petroleum products, coal, steel, are located across the Red River in Wahpeton, N.D. farm machinery, ag processing by-products Administrative offices: Wahpeton, N.D. In mid-2009, RRVW dedicated a new two-track, 19,200 sq.ft. freight car repair facility in Breckenridge Operations and car repair facility: Breckenridge to handle running and contract repairs for the rail-

BNSF to To Casselton Fargo/Moorhead MINNESOTA Red River Colfax Kent WILKIN Valley Western N. DAKOTA RAILROAD COMPANY Dwight Breckenridge To Oakes Barney MooretonWahpeton Doran RRV&W Breckenridge Area RRV&W RICHLAND Campbell Trackage rights Geneseo Aberdeen Lidgerwood Hankinson Fairmount Tenney Line Jct.

BNSF to S. DAKOTA Minneapolis

24 ST. CROIX VALLEY RAILROAD 175 West 4th Street Phone: 1-888-200-0415 P.O. Box 563 (mailing address) (320) 358-0383 Rush City, MN 55069 FAX: (320) 358-0276

Contacts: Lee Lautt, Manager Admin. & Marketing Phone: (218) 281-1750 E-mail: [email protected] Richard Spiering, Operations supervisor E-mail: [email protected] LeAnn Halland, Customer Service E-mail: [email protected]

The St. Croix Valley Railroad owns and oper- Principal commodities carried include grain, ates 36 miles of former BNSF Railway trackage from flour, and fertilizers. The railroad handles approxi- Hinckley to North Branch. Interchange is made with mately 3,000 carloads annually and is locally man- BNSF at Hinckley. aged. The railroad owns two locomotives; all freight cars are supplied by BNSF. St. Croix Valley has two employees and serves three communities: North Branch, Pine City and The line from Hinckley to North Branch once Rush City. The railroad is operated as a subsidiary of belonged to the Northern Pacific Railway and was Minnesota Northern Railroad Co. (MNN). SCXY was part of its main line from Duluth to St. Paul. purchased from BNSF in September 1997.

BNSF to Duluth/Superior St. Croix Valley in Minnesota Hinckley Miles of track owned: 36 Employees: 2 BNSF Payroll: (2010) $150,000 Annual carloads: 3,000 Principal commodities: Grain, flour, fertilizers BNSF to Minneapolis Locomotives: 2

Pine Headquarters, rail yards, shops: Rush City City

Rock KANABEC PINE Creek ISANTI CHISAGO Rush City

OIX VA R L C L . E

T Harris

Y S

T H E S NE R KALLY LI A ILROAD North Branch

25 TWIN CITIES & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY 2925 12th Street East Phone: (320) 864-7200 or 1-800-290-TCWR (8297) Glencoe, MN 55336 Website: www.tcwr.net FAX: (320) 864-7220

Contact: Mark Wegner, President (320) 864-7204 [email protected] Craig Glaeser, Dir. Marketing and Sales (320) 864-7206 [email protected] Robin Bergeron, Dir., Sales (320) 864-7211 [email protected] Bob Suko, Gen. Manager, Operations (320) 864-7210 [email protected] Tim Jeske, Dir. Mechanical & Maintenance (320) 864-7214 [email protected] Katie Masog, Dir. of Accounting (320) 864-7207 [email protected] Sue Bombeck, Office Manager (320) 864-7201 [email protected] Lori Koelln, Mgr. Car Accounting & Utilization (320) 864-7216 [email protected] Holli Schafer, Mgr. Revenue Accounting (320) 864-7203 [email protected] Diane McCall, Mgr. Transportation Services (320) 864-7213 [email protected]

The Twin Cities and Western Railroad (TC&W) terminals in Minneapolis and St. Paul through use of operates 229 miles of track and trackage rights connecting rail carriers. serving some of the most productive agricultural counties of Minnesota. TC&W shipments consist In 2008, TC&W was named Regional Railroad of primarily of commodities in the agricultural markets. the Year by Railway Age magazine. TC&W also provides intermodal service between Montevideo and St. Paul. TC&W in Minnesota Operations began on July 27, 1991 over track and trackage rights acquired from the Soo Line Railroad Miles of track owned: 146 (now Canadian Pacific) between the Twin Cities and Employees: 68 Milbank, S.D.—formerly known as the “Ortonville Payroll and fringes: $5.6 million Line.” Prior to TC&W and Soo Line, the track was part of the former Milwaukee Road’s main line pro- Locomotives: 12 viding freight and passenger service to the Pacific Freight cars: More than 700 Northwest. The main line was constructed in the 1870s by the Hastings & Dakota Railway. Total carloads: 18,000 Commodities: Aggregates, animal fats/tallow, TC&W interchanges in the Twin Cities with BNSF, beet pulp, canned/frozen vegetables, CN, CP, MNNR and UP. TC&W has direct access to coal, DDGs, ethanol, fertilizers, Camden Place barge terminal on the Mississippi forest products, grains and River in North Minneapolis and Savage on the Min- organic grains, pellets, sugar nesota River. TC&W can access all other major river Headquarters: Glencoe Maintenance shops: Glencoe, Morton & B I G S T O N E TC W

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Redwood Falls

26 Other railroads serving Minnesota

Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) Website: http://www.amtrak.com 525 West Van Buren Street Suite 200 Phone: (312) 880-5118 Chicago, IL 60607 FAX: (312) 880-5167 Contact: Derrick L. James E-mail: [email protected] Director of Government Affairs

Amtrak’s long-distance, Chicago to Seattle and Portland, Ore., Empire Builder passenger train operates over 373 miles of BNSF Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway and Minnesota Commercial Railway trackage in Minnesota. The Empire Builder operates daily serving Winona, Red Wing, St. Paul-Minneapolis, St. Cloud, Staples and Detroit Lakes. Total ridership at Minnesota stations in Fiscal Year 2010 was 188,881.

Amtrak has 20,000 employees including 43 in Minnesota. Payroll in the state in fiscal year 2010 was approximately $2.9 million. Amtrak spent $66 million for goods and services in Minnesota in FY 2010. Minnesota is in Amtrak’s Central Division, which is based in Chicago. Amtrak owns and operates St. Paul Midway Station.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Amtrak provides passenger rail service over a nationwide network of 21,000 route miles, serving 525 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces. In FY 2010, Amtrak carried nearly 29 million passengers, an all-time record and the seventh ridership gain in eight years. The Empire Builder is the most popular long-distance passenger train in America and last year carried a total of 533,493 passengers.

Amtrak actively seeks partnerships with state governments to expand rail passenger service on existing and new routes. Amtrak partners with 15 states to operate 170 daily trains over 19 routes.

Amtrak continues to support development of the Midwest Regional Rail System, which includes a plan to establish a higher-frequency, trip-time competitive service between the Twin Cities, Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Amtrak will relocate the St. Paul station stop to St. Paul Union Depot when Ramsey County completes a renovation of the historic structure, joining light rail, local and intercity and possibly commuter rail.

North Shore Scenic Railroad Phone: (218) 722-1273 or 1-800-423-1273 St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Rail Authority FAX: (218) 733-7596 506 West Michigan Street Website: http://www.northshorescenicrailroad.org Duluth, MN 55802

Contact: Tim Schandel, Dir. of RR Operations The North Shore Scenic Railroad provides tourist passenger service during the summer and fall months between Duluth and Two Harbors, 25 miles. The track is owned by the St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Rail Authority, which purchased the track from the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway. The railroad is operated under contract by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum of Duluth.

Steam-powered trains are operated on the last three weekends of August and the first two weekends of September using Soo Line Pacific Class locomotive No. 2719, built by American Locomotive Co. in 1923.

27 BNSF, CP to CP BNSF, La Crosse 94 To Eau Claire To To Withrow, Withrow, To CN to Wisconsin 36 61 WASHINGTON 5 694

P C 120

To To SF Hugo MNNR BN

Mississippi R. UP 61 5 61

35E UP 52 35E

3 CP 52 52

35E CP PGR 13 55 494 110 110

SF 149

N Mason City To 94 A N O K A B

BNSF 35W R A M S E Y 694

5 MNNR 36

P Cliff Road C 51 St. Paul St. Paul 35E

D A K O T A UP 13

MNNR 280 10 77 55 94 62 65

MNNR Central Ave. 77

University Ave. Ave. Universityl

BNSF NSF B 35W 35W 252

94

610 PGR To Duluth To 81 F 10 62 S Northfield To

P N 12 C

B 694 BNSF Minneapolis 1 100 100 TC&W CP CP Cloud To St. To

55 CP 169 169 169 494 212 CP 394 212 169 UP 5 101 494 H E N N E P I N

BNSF S C O T T TC&W 7 94 12

BNSF To To To To To Mankato To Monticello To Glencoe To Glenwood To Willmar Willmar To 7-10-06

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