Information about MINNESOTA’SMINNESOTA’S RAILROADSRAILROADS 2019-2020

PHOTO BY JEREMIAH RINDAHL MINNESOTA REGIONAL RAILROADS ASSOCIATION

http://www.mnrailroads.com MINNESOTA’S RAILROADS AT A GLANCE Number of railroads 20 Total mileage 4,269 Total carloads carried 1,917,000 Total tons of freight carried (2017) 238,600,000 Employees 4,270 Total wages and fringe benefits paid $506,000,000 Average wages per employee, and fringe benefits $128,640 Railroad retirees 13,753 Payments to retirees $307,000,000 Property taxes $78,000,000 Percent of Top commodities originated in state Carloads State’s total Iron ore/taconite 516,400 48% Grain 162,200 15% Food products 89,500 8% Nonmetallic Minerals 59,300 6% Chemicals 38,100 4% All other 204,500 19% TOTAL 1,070,000

Top commodities terminated in state Iron ore/taconite 394,900 47% Coal 112,500 13% Farm products 44,400 5% Chemicals 39,900 5% All other 255,300 30% TOTAL 847,000 Sources: Association of American Railroads for the year 2017 and U.S. Surface Transportion Board, State of Minnesota: Department of Transportation, Department of Revenue.

Cover photo: Otter Tail Valley Railroad operates Produced by: seven miles of former BNSF track in Minnesota Minnesota Regional Railroads Association from Moorhead/Dilworth to Fergus Falls, plus Briggs Business Communication branch lines between French and Hoot Lake and MediaXpress Barnesville to Downer. OTVR was formed in 1986 and is one of 120 freight railroads owned and 525 Park Street, Suite 130 operated by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Principal St. Paul, MN 55103-2044 commoditie include grain, coal and ethanol. Phone: (651) 556-9204 Fax: (651) 672-3777 Photo by Jeffrey Rindahl Website: www.mnrailroads.com

This information directory on Minnesota’s railroads is in the form of an Adobe Acrobat® PDF document.

2 INTRODUCTION MINNESOTA’S RAILROADS — On track to the future

y 2040, Minnesota’s rail volume is In 2018 and 2019, Minnesota’s railroads projected to nearly double from 239 budgeted approximately $537 million upgrading Bmillion tons in 2017, or roughly 13 track, bridges and equipment. Railroads nationally million truckloads, to 463 million tons. Because spend nearly 20 cents of every revenue dollar on railroad steel wheels on steel rail are so much capital improvements. That’s six times more than more efficient, trains can move freight with one- the average manufacturer. fourth the fuel and 75 percent less greenhouse gas emissions, compared to highway carriers. Minnesota railroaders benefit too. On average, Lower shipping costs by rail help make Minnesota employees are paid $128,640—the third highest farmers, miners, and manufacturers more wages and benefits in the U.S., after Wisconsin and competitive and able to reach customers farther New Mexico. across the nation and around the world. Railroads pay taxes One-fourth of the freight moves by rail Minnesota taxpayers benefit from railroads. Currently, railroads handle one-fourth of Unlike publicly supported highways, airports, Minnesota’s freight. locks and dams, railroads Minnesota leads the United pay for and maintain their States in outbound rail Minnesota’s Railroads provides background own tracks, bridges and shipments of taconite information about the railroad companies train contol systems. and iron ore totaling 43 that operate in the state. Included are Keeping freight on the million tons—70 percent of maps showing communities they serve, key rails, instead of roads, the U.S. total. The state’s personnel at each company, and a list of reduces highway damage. grain tonnage of 17 million major commodities they carry. tons ranked second in the Railroads also pay nation, after North Dakota. property taxes. In 2018, Shipments of food products totaling 9 million tons Minnesota’s railroads paid $78 million to the also ranked second, after . Minnesota Department of Revenue—money that helps support local schools and government. Spending for the future Accidents at all-time low Minnesota railroads are investing in the future by increasing capacity with more tracks and Railroads are the safest on record. According passing sidings, bigger freight cars that can carry to the Federal Railroad Administration, since 2008 heavier loads, and more powerful locomotives train accidents have declined 23 percent. Track- with fewer emissions. In addition, Minnesota related accidents are down 40 percent—an all time railroads have a brand new signaling system called low. Derailments involving release of a hazardous Positive Train Control—helping to assure the safe material are down 41 percent to where 99.999 movement of trains faster and more reliably. percent of haz mat carloads are moved without a train accident-release.

3 INDEX SUBJECT PAGE 28 Minnesota Prairie Line Inc. 21 American Short Line and Regional Railroad Assn. 4 Minnesota Regional Railroads Association 4 Association of American Railroads 4 North Shore Scenic Railroad 28 BNSF Railway (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) 8-9 20 CN (Canadian National) 10-11 , Inc. 21 12-13 Otter Tail Valley Railroad 22 Carloadings 2 Positive Train Control (PTC) 6-7 Class I, II and III railroads 5 Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) 6-7 Cloquet Terminal Railroad Company Inc. 16 Progressive Rail Incorporated 25 Commodities handled (total for state) 2 Property taxes 2 Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (CP) 12 Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad 26 Ellis & Eastern Company 17 Red River Valley & Western Railroad 27 Employees 2 Retirees 2 Federal Railroad Administration 4 (CP) 12-13 Introduction 3 St. Croix Valley Railroad 28 Mileage (by carrier) 5 Twin Cities & Western Railroad 29 Minnesota Commercial Railway 18 Twin Cities railroad map 30 Minnesota, Dakota & Western Railway 19 14-15 Minnesota DOT - Office of Frt., RRs & Waterways 4 Wages paid (total for state) 2 Minnesota Northern Railroad Company 17 Websites 4

WEBSITES OF MINNESOTA RAILROADS

RAILROADS: Otter Tail Valley Railroad: Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corp.): http://www.gwrr.com/otvr http://Amtrak.com Progressive Rail: BNSF Railway: http://www.progressiverail.com http://www.bnsf.com Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad: CN: http://www.gwrr.com/rcpe http://www.cn.ca Red River Valley & Western Railroad Company: Canadian Pacific Railway: http://www.rrvw.net http://www.cpr.ca Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company: Ellis & Eastern Company http://www.tcwr.net http://www.ellisandeastern.com/ Union Pacific Railroad: Minnesota Commercial: http://www.uprr.com http://www.mnnr.net Minnesota Prairie Line: RAILROAD ORGANIZATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS: https://tcwr.net/about/minnesota-prairie-line-mpl/ American Short Line and Regional RRs Assn: http://www.aslrra.org Northern Lines Railway: http://www.anacostia.com/railroads/nlr Association of American Railroads: https://www.aar.org/ Northern Plains Railroad: http://www.nprail.com Federal Railroad Administration: http://www.fra.dot.gov North Shore Scenic Railroad: http://www.northshorescenicrailroad.org MN DOT, Off. of Freight, Railroads & Waterways: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aboutrail MN Regional Railroads Association: http://www.mnrailroads.com

4 MINNESOTA RAILROADS AND MILEAGE

n 2019, there are 20 railroad companies operat- While some of these smaller lines have existed inde- ing in Minnesota on 4,269 route miles of track. A pendently for years, most were created in the 1980s Itotal of 3,474 miles, or 81 percent of the mileage, following passage of the Staggers Act, which helped is 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 is the All carrier-owned railroad track in Minnesota federal economic regulator of railroads. Based on must comply with safety standards set forth by the 2017 statistics, Class I railroads are those that had Federal Railroad Administration and is subject to annual operating revenue of $463.9 million or more. periodic inspections. About two-thirds of the track in the state is FRA Class 3 or 4, permitting freight Class II railroads have annual operating revenue trains to operate at speeds up to 40 and 60 mph, re- between $37.1 million and $463.9 million. In addition, spectively. All railroad equipment must also comply Minnesota has 14 Class III railroads, which have an- with federal safety standards, including regular main- nual operating revenue of less than $37.1 million. tenance. In addition, railroad operating personnel “Regional railroads” are line-haul carriers operating must be familiar with FRA rules and regulations and at least 350 miles of road and/or earning revenue ex- successfully complete training on safety and oper- ceeding $40 million, but less than a Class I. Regional ating rules. Locomotive engineers must be certified and short-line railroads generally are lighter-density by the FRA in order to operate a locomotive and go lines that have been spun off by a Class I carrier. through recertification every three years.

Minnesota’s Railroads Railroad Mileage owned in Minnesota Class I

BNSF Railway (BNSF) 1,490 Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 71 Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) 1,144 Northern Plains Railroad (NPR) 45 Union Pacific Railroad (UP) 418 Ellis & Eastern Company (EE) 42 CN (Canadian National Railway) 422 St. Croix Valley Railroad (SCXY) 36 National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) 0 North Shore Scenic Railroad (NSSR) 25 (St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Rail Class II Authority between Duluth and Two Harbors) Progressive Rail Inc. (PGR) 22 Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCPE) 43 Northern Lines Railway, LLC (NLR) 17 Cloquet Terminal Railroad Co. (CTRR) 4 Class III Minnesota, Dakota & Western Ry. Co. (MDW) 4 Red River Valley & Western Railroad (RRVW) 3 Twin Cities & Western Railroad Co. (TCWR) 146 Minnesota Commercial Railway Co. (MNNR) 128 Minnesota Northern Railroad (MNN) 120 Minnesota Prairie Line Inc. (MPLI) 94

5 In Minnesota, railroad progress is spelled PTC and PSR

BY KEVIN P. KEEFE

f all the major trends facing railroads in 2019- muter rail passenger service. The original deadline 2020, two stand out: the gradual adoption of for implementation was December 31, 2015. However, OPositive Train Control (PTC), a safety and Congress extended the PTC deadline to a date no communications technology; and Precision Sched- later than December 31, 2020, if a railroad meets uled Railroading (PSR), an operating strategy based various statutory requirements. on boosting asset utilization. All the Class I railroads operating in Minnesota report Like many states with extensive railroad mileage, they have achieved 100 percent compliance with PTC Minnesota is directly affected by PTC—a national goals required as of February 2019. These include safety system designed to prevent collisions and de- installation of technology in locomotives. across railments on track that either carries hazardous ma- track segments, radio towers, employee training, terials or handles intercity or commuter passenger and a PTC safety plan. trains. PTC uses GPS guidance, wayside detectors, and in-office computers to monitor where trains are PTC, a $10.5 billion investment at any given moment, their speed, and their ability to stop. The Association of American Railroads reports that as of December 31, 2018, railroads nationwide have If train crews fail to take proper action, PTC can invested more than $10.5 billion on Positive Train bring a train to an immediate safe stop. It can also Control, with Minnesota sharing in the benefits. regulate speed, or stop trains before they reach an identified hazard, such as misaligned track switches Meanwhile, Minnesota’s railroads large and small or track workers. PTC is not a preventative in cases have spent more than $1 billion over the past five involving grade-crossing violations by motorists and years to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and trespassers or track or equipment failure. on-time performance for the state’s shippers.

The PTC requirement primarily affects the seven PSR: Precision Scheduled Railroading Class I railroads, based on their total revenues. To- gether, four Class I railroads own a total of 3,510 miles Minnesota also has been at the crossroads in the of track in Minnesota. These include BNSF Railway, adoption of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR), Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific and CN (Canadian -Na a business operations model. The term originated tional). The state’s only Amtrak train, the Chicago-St. with the late E. Hunter Harrison, formerly the CEO of Paul-Seattle Empire Builder, travels on CP rails east CN, Canadian Pacific, and CSX Transportation, who of St. Paul, and BNSF to the west. The 146-mile Twin died in December 2017. Cities & Western is the only other Minnesota railroad required to install PTC. Harrison’s concept of PSR was guided by five general principles: provide the service you promise; control The federal mandate for PTC traces back to 2008, or eliminate unnecessary costs; get more productiv- when Congress passed legislation to require the ity out of existing assets; keep safety a top priority; technology on Class I railroad main lines handling and develop employees to be their best. These poisonous-inhalation-hazard materials, and any main principles led to seven goals for service design: lines with regularly scheduled intercity and com- minimize the time railcars spend in yards; minimize

6 COURTESY BNSF COURTESY

Positive Train Control (PTC) uses GPS, Wi-Fi and radio transmission to determine location, direction and speed ­of trains— stopping them if necessary. car classifications; have more than one route for Minnesota’s other two Class I railroads are adopting cars to reach destinations; run general-purpose their own versions of PSR. Union Pacific began to trains, as opposed to single-commodity unit trains; implement its own approach in 2018. Among changes, balance train movements by direction; maintain an UP shifted focus to moving cars instead of trains, optimum, but minimal fleet of locomotives; sustain reducing car handling and terminal dwell time in ter- a steady workflow. minals. Train movements were adjusted by direction and day of the week to improve locomotive and crew The practice of PSR is not new to Minnesota. It was utilization. BNSF Railway continues to follow its own during Harrison’s CN tenure from 2003 to 2009 that successful operating model. PSR began to garner industry-wide acceptance. It also was credited with a dramatic financial turnaround PTC and PRS are the latest examples of railroading’s at CN. Harrison achieved similar results during his rich history of implenting new technology in an effort 2012-2017 tenure at Canadian Pacific. Both CN and CP to improve safety, reliability and efficiency for com- continue to follow the basic Harrison / PSR model. munities and customers across the nation.

Kevin P. Keefe, journalist and author, was born in Chicago in 1951 and graduated from Michigan State University’s School of Journalism in 1973. He has worked for daily newspapers in Michigan and Wisconsin including the Milwaukee Journal, and as an associate editor and editor-in-chief (1992-2000) of Trains. He became associate publisher in 2000, and, from 2005 to 2016, served as vice-president-editorial and publisher for Trains’ parent, Kalmbach Media Co., Waukesha, Wisconsin.

7 BNSF in Minnesota BNSF Trackage rights To Winnipeg MANITOBA Noyes

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

Bemidji Hibbing Virginia

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

N. DAKOT Little Falls

Browns Valley Morris ST. CLOUD Cambridge

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

Marshall

Mankato Pipestone Winona A ROCHESTER La Crosse

To Sioux City

S. DAKOT IOWA To Chicago

8 BNSF RAILWAY

BNSF Railway Website: http://www.bnsf.com 2650 Lou Menk Drive, 2nd Floor P.O. Box 96105, Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057 Phone: 1-888-428-2673 Contacts: Lydia Bjorge, Exec. Director, State Govt. Affairs Phone: 651-298-2458 525 Park Street, No. 110 Email: [email protected] St. Paul, MN 55103

Justin Pearson, Economic Development Phone: 701-667-7425 Email: [email protected] Amy McBeth, Director of Public Affairs Phone: 763-782-3212 Email: [email protected]

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation From 2014 through 2018, BNSF invested about through its subsidiary, BNSF Railway Company, op- $840 million in Minnesota to improve the railroad erates one of the largest railroad networks in North for safe and reliable operation. Systemwide in 2019, America with approximately 32,500 route miles serv- BNSF expects to spend approximately $3.6 billion ing 28 states and three Canadian provinces. BNSF on maintenance, expansion projects, Positive Train covers the western two-thirds of the United States, Control, new locomotives, freight cars and other stretching from major ports in the Pacific Northwest equipment that will benefit the state and shippers. and Southern California to the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Can- BNSF’s largest predecessor, Burlington Northern, ada. The company has 44,000 employees, including was formed on March 2, 1970 through the merger of 7,360 military veterans. the Burlington, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle railways. Both Great BNSF was created on September 22, 1995, from Northern and Northern Pacific had extensive rail the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. (parent com- networks in the state. pany of Burlington Northern Railroad) and Santa Fe Pacifc Corporation (parent company of the Atchison, A predecessor of the Great Northern Railway Topeka and Santa Fe Railway). BNSF Railway Com- was Minnesota’s first railroad, completing 10 miles of pany became a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway track from St. Paul to St. Anthony, now Minneapolis, Inc. on February 12, 2010. in 1862.

BNSF is Minnesota’s largest railroad and owns 1,490 route miles of track and has 2,278 employees. BNSF in Minnesota Moving more than 2.2 million carloads of the state’s Miles of track owned: 1,490 freight annually, BNSF originated 446,816 carloads in Employees: 2,278 2018 and terminated 261,295 carloads. Payroll: $178.3 million BNSF is one of the nation’s largest grain-hauling Rail Yards: Dilworth, Minneapolis, railroads, moving more than 160,000 carloads of St. Paul, Willmar Minnesota corn, wheat, soybeans and other agricul- Intermodal, auto facilities: Dilworth, St. Paul tural products annually. Other outbound shipments include taconite, food products, timber and paper. Shops: Brainerd, Dilworth, BNSF brings in coal for the state’s power plants and Minneapolis a variety of consumer products, packaged goods, Administrative offices: St. Paul paper products, clothes, appliances and automobiles.

9 To Winnipeg

Warroad CANADA ROSEAU Rainy River Roosevelt Fort Williams Frances Baudette Ranier LAKE UNITED OF THE International Falls W OODS S TATES

Orr KOOCHICHING

Cook ITASCA Minorca Emco Virginia GilbertMcKinley Biwabik Mesaba Mt Iron Shelton ra Wyman ro e u by Allen Jct. A ol Wolf C Skibo lerain Buhl Spruce Iron Jct. Fairbanks lumet-Marbleengilly P BNSF Keenan LAKE Ca pen ood Bovey-Co il Forbes Peary Breda HibbingW Sherw Fairlane Jordan Zim Central Brimson Lakes Norshor Jct. Melrude McNair Sax Whiteface Wales Kelsey Highland Payne Shaw Waldo Alborn Taft Two Harbors Burnett Bartlett Saginaw Munger NSSR ST. LOUIS LAKE SUPERIOR AdolphProctor Nopeming Jct. DULUTH CARLETON Brewer Steelton Oliver SUPERIOR, WI a

Pokegam Saunders Peyton Ambridge To Chicago Dresser MINNESOTA WISCONSIN Osceola

WASHINGTON Copas ALBERT LEA Marine FREEBORN MOWER HENNEPIN Maple Island London

RAMSEY Glenville Withrow To Stevens Point, Lyle Myrtle MINNESOTA CP Chicago Humboldt Yard New Brighton IOWA WISCONSIN MNNRSt. Paul Minneapolis To Yard Waterloo

CN

Trackage rights

10 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 Email: [email protected]

Contacts: CN Emergency Number: Phone: 1-800-465-9239 -Issues at RR crossings, or with lights and gates Larry Lloyd Phone: 312-505-4625 Manager, Government & Public Affairs Email: [email protected] Peter Bistis Phone: 218-628-4106 General Manager Midwest Division FAX: 218-628-4152 Proctor Transportation Office 1052 Railroad Avenue Proctor, MN 55810 CN, created June 6, 1919 as Canadian National Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific started as a logging Railway Company, operates approximately 19,500 railroad serving mills in the Virginia area with prede- route miles of line in the U.S. and Canada. It is the cessor companies dating back to 1901. The DWP was only rail network that connects all three coasts: the incorporated in 1912 under the control of the Cana- Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico. CN has dian Northern, which had constructed the line south an average of 25,400 employees. of Lake of the Woods in 1900. Canadian Northern became part of CN in 1919, but its U.S. subsidiaries CN’s principal main line in Minnesota extends (Grand Trunk Western and the DWP) retained their across the northeastern part of the state via the separate identities into the 1990s. Duluth/Superior gateway, providing an essential link between Western Canada and the Midwest. Another Wisconsin Central’s roots go back more than a CN main line connects the Twin Cities with central century to 1871, when the original Wisconsin Central Wisconsin, Green Bay and Chicago. Other CN lines in Railway was formed. It was operated by the Soo Line the Upper Midwest serve Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (now Canadian Pacific) from 1909 until 1987, when it and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. was acquired by WC.

In 2018, CN invested $72 million in Minnesota to The was an Illinois Central improve track, bridges and signals for safer, more subsidiary until mid-1999, when IC merged with CN. efficient operations. In March 2018, CN completed CEDR track extends north from CN’s Chicago-Omaha a major project at its Ranier, Minn. Canada-U.S. bor- main line at Waterloo, Iowa to Glenville, Minn., near der crossing, nearly doubling the capacity. CN also Albert Lea. Total mileage is 102, including 19 miles opened a new intermodal terminal in Duluth in 2018. of track in Minnesota.

In 1995, the CN became a publicly owned com- pany with U.S. shareholders owning about two-thirds of the stock. CN acquired control of Illinois Central CN in Minnesota Corp. in 1999. In 2001, CN purchased Wisconsin Cen- Miles of track owned: 422 tral Transportation Corporation. In 2004, CN acquired the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DMIR) Employees: 497 from Great Lakes Transportation LLC. The Duluth, Capital improvements: $72 million Winnipeg & Pacific Railway, which had been a CN subsidiary since 1912, was integrated into CN’s U.S. Local purchases $130 million operations in the 1990s. Principal commodities: Iron ore, potash, energy commodities, forest products, The DMIR was formed in 1938 when the Duluth, paper, intermodal Missabe and Northern and the Duluth and Iron Range merged. Adding the DMIR made CN the largest rail carrier of iron ore in North America.

11 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 Cloquet NORTH DAKOTA NORTH SUPERIOR

Brainerd To Minot, Portal Alexandria

Glenwood Cambridge ST. CLOUD WISCONSIN

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

S. DAKOTA Balaton Savage Dodge Center Lake City Tracy Janesville Owatonna Northfield To Rapid RCPE Waseca Claremont Wabasha City Lake Benton Eyota Minnesota City WinnebagoMankato Winona WelcomeFairmontGranada Hayward Sherburn New Richland ROCHESTER Blooming La Crosse Alpha Hartland Prairie La Crescent DelavanEastonWells Brownsville To Chicago Jackson Alden AlbertAustin a Albert Lea

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

12 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY

Canadian Pacific Railway Phone: 1-800-766-7912 120 South 6th St., Suite 700 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Website: http://www.cpr.ca

Contacts: Arielle Giordano, Dir., Federal & State Gov’t Rels. Phone: 202-815-5309 Email: [email protected] Andy Cummings, Media Relations Phone: 612-851-5616 Email: [email protected] Jim Krieger, Public Works Engineer Phone: 612-904-5994 Email: [email protected].

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited operates a Wyoming Inc. bought the west end of the DM&E, 12,500-mile rail network linking the principal cities consisting of 670 miles of line from Tracy, Minn. to of Canada from Montreal to Vancouver, and the U.S. South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska—operating as Midwest and Northeast. CP’s U.S. operations are the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad, Inc. conducted by its subsidiaries: Soo Line; Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern; and the Delaware and Hudson Although system operations are fully integrated Railway. Alliances with other carriers extend CP’s with CP, Soo Line and DM&E remain as separate market reach throughout the U.S. and into Mexico. companies due to different laws, labor contracts and other unique characteristics in the U.S. CP generated revenues of C$7.3 billion in 2018 of which 41 percent came from bulk products such as CP’s administrative departments, equipment grain, coal, sulfur and fertilizers. Carload shipments maintenance, train dispatching and crew calling fa- of industrial and consumer products, automotive cilities are concentrated in Minnesota. The railway’s and forest products accounted for 37 percent of U.S. training facility for locomotive engineers and CP’s revenues. The remaining 22 percent came from conductors is located in the Twin Cities and uses intermodal traffic moving in containers and trailers. state of the art simulators and other equipment to prepare and certify crews for their assignments. CP operates a fleet of 1,423 diesel-electric loco- motives. Fifty-seven percent are alternating current CP operates an intermodal terminal in Minneapo- (“AC”) units, which are more fuel efficient and reliable lis, loading and unloading domestic and international and have superior hauling capacity. CP’s freight car containers, which flow across the world to and from fleet totals 35,815 cars. Minnesota. Adjacent to the intermodal site is a facil- ity for transloading goods between trucks and freight CP owns and operates 1,689 miles of track in Min- cars. CP also operates a large distribution center nesota with major classification yards at Minneapolis, for new and used automobiles at Cottage Grove, St. Paul and Glenwood. CP also has major locomotive where hundreds of vehicles arrive by train and are and freight car repair facilities in St. Paul, where shop transferred to highway auto carriers to take them to capacity has been expanded several times. dealers across five states.

CP has held a major stake in the Soo Line since 1888 and purchased full control of the railroad in CP in Minnesota 1990. The Soo Line operates 750 miles in Minnesota Miles of track owned: 1,144 from the Mississippi River at La Crosse through the Operated under trackage rights: 545 Twin Cities and north to North Dakota and Canada. Soo Line also accesses Duluth-Superior. Employees: 1,088 Locomotives 1,423 In October 2008, CP assumed control of the DM&E Major employment locations: Glenwood, Railroad, which operated more than 2,500 route miles Minneapolis, St. Paul, Thief River Falls from Chicago west to Kansas City, Mo. and the Black Hills of South Dakota. On May 30, 2014, Genesee &

13 Union Pacific in Minnesota Union Pacific Trackage rights

MANITOBA

International Falls ONTARIO

Grand Forks

Virginia Hibbing Grand Rapids

ARGO F DULUTH Moorhead

H DAKO TA SUPERIOR Brainerd NO RT

Little Falls

Cambridge ST. CLOUD WISCONSIN t AUL ypor . P Ba Plymouth ST Hudson To Chicago MINNEAPOLIS South St. Paul Shak Belle Plaine Rosemount New Prague opee Cannon Falls Le Sueur Montgomery Northfield St. Peter Faribault Madelia Mankato Owatonna Butterfield Winona La Windom St. James Ellendale Crosse

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

To Sioux City IOWA To Mason City

14 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: Email: Kelli E. O’Brien, Sr. Director of Public Affairs: IA MN WI 515-263-4585 [email protected] Kristen South, Sr. Dir., Corp. Communs. & Media Rels. 402-544-3435 [email protected] Chris Keckeisen, Engineering Design-Public Projects 402-544-5131 [email protected] Anna C. Palmer, Real Estate Project Sales and Lease 402-544-8554 [email protected] Sandy Christiansen, Network Econ. & Industrial Dev. 630-427-2355 [email protected]

24/7 Emergency Hotline: 1-888-877-7267

Union Pacific Railroad (UP), a subsidiary of From 2014-2018, Union Pacific invested more than Union Pacific Corporation, operates in the western $151 million improving its infrastructure in Minne- two-thirds of the United States. UP serves 23 states sota. UP’s 62,200 freight cars and 8,300 locomotives with 32,200 miles of track linking every major West benefit the state. Coast and Gulf Coast port. In 2018, UP originated 125,605 carloads of freight Union Pacific traces its history back more than in Minnesota with 37,050 carloads terminating in the 150 years when it was created to build the first trans- state. Principal commodities handled by the Union continental railroad, which was completed on May 10, Pacific in Minnesota include grain, sand, agricultural 1869. All of UP’s Minnesota trackage was part of the products, coal, automobiles, fertilizer, petroleum former Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW), products and industrial chemicals. UP serves unit which was purchased by UP in 1995. The company train shippers in prime corn and soybean areas in- had an average of 42,000 employees in 2018. cluding flour mills, malt houses, soybean processors, ethanol plants and rail-to-river transfer stations. Union Pacific owns and operates 645 miles of track in Minnesota, with 442 employees. In 2018, the company had a payroll of $42.6 million and made purchases in Minnesota totaling $103.6 million. Union Pacific in Minnesota Union Pacific owns two busy rail corridors in the southern portion of Minnesota. The “Spine Line” runs Miles of track owned: 418 south from the Twin Cities to Kansas City, Mo. The other major corridor runs southwest from the Twin Employees: 442 Cities through Mankato and Worthington to Sioux Payroll: $42.6 million City, Iowa. This line has been extensively rebuilt with In-state purchases: $103.6 million new ties, ballast and welded rail since it was acquired from the C&NW. UP also has trackage rights over the Rail yards: Albert Lea, East Minneapolis, BNSF Railway from the Twin Cities to Duluth. Mankato, Savage, St. Paul, South St. Paul Auto distribution facility: St. Paul (Drake Street) The transportation and engineering departments that oversee the track territory in Minnesota, north- Administrative offices: St. Paul ern Iowa and Wisconsin are part of the “Twin Cities Service Unit,” which is based in St. Paul.

15 CLOQUET TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY INC. 2201 Avenue B Phone: 218-878-0604 P.O. Box 511 Mobile: 218-391-6667 Cloquet, MN 55720 FAX: 218-879-6558 Contact: Bruce Baker, General Manager Email: [email protected]

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 has running rights on about 20 miles of yard track Miles of track owned: 4 in Cloquet, and interchanges traffic with the BNSF Employees: 23 Railway and Canadian Pacific. Locomotives: 4 The railroad has 23 full-time employees. The Total carloads: 6,000 company owns four diesel-electric locomotives. Principal commodities: Logs, paper products and pulp Cloquet Terminal’s major shipper is Sappi. The railroad also serves the United States Gypsum (USG) Administrative offices: Cloquet factory in Cloquet, which makes ceiling tiles and Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI). CTRR handles approxi- mately 6,000 cars per year.

BNSF To Grand Forks CLOQUET TERMINAL RAILROAD St. Lou is Ri ver CTRR Shops Sappi Mill

CTRR/BNSF interchange

CLOQUET

BNSF To Duluth/Superior

16 ELLIS & EASTERN COMPANY 1500 N. Sweetman Place Phone: 605-357-6075 P.O. Box 84140, Sioux Falls, SD 57118 Website: http://www.ellisandeastern.com/ Sioux Falls, SD 57107 Contact: Clark Meyer, President Phone: 605-336-5763 Email: [email protected] Ryan Hunsaid, Superintendent of Train Operations Phone: 605-728-2966 Email: [email protected] Eric Berning, Supervisor of Track Maintenance Phone: 605-951-6996 Email: [email protected]

The Ellis & Eastern (EE) operates 42 miles of Truck/rail transload facilities at Luverne and track in Minnesota from a connection with the Union Agate can store up to 1,000 rail cars. Pacific at Agate (south of Worthington) to a connec- tion with the BNSF Railway at Manley. EE acquired the The land is owned by a regional rail authority, line from Minnesota Southern Railway June 1, 2017. and is operated by Ellis & Eastern under a lease agree- ment. The line from Agate to Manley once belonged Ellis & Eastern, which is owned by Sweetman to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Rail- Const. Co., Sioux Falls, S.D., also operates 23 route way (later part of the Chicago and North Western) miles of line in South Dakota from Ellis, through and was part of a branch line from Worthington to downtown Sioux Falls, to Manley, Minn. In late 2018, Mitchell, S.D. Sweetman Const. Co. was purchased by Knife River Corp., which is a division of MDU Resources in Bis- marck, N.D. EE in Minnesota Miles of track: 65 (42 in Minnesota) Based in Sioux Falls and employing 11 people, Employees: 3 including three in Minnesota, the railroad operates in Nobles and Rock counties and serves five Minnesota Locomotives 4 communities. Principal commodities carried include Total carloads 600 animal feed, corn oil, ethanol, fertilizer, lumber, and Commodities: Feed, corn oil, ethanol, rebar. Ellis & Eastern handles approximately 600 fertilizer, lumber, rebar, carloads annually, which helps keep more than 2,400 waste oil and cement. trucks off the highways. Transload yards: Luverne, Agate BNSF to Willmar, Twin Cities

Jasper

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

Manley Worthington Ellis Beaver Creek Agate Brandon Valley Springs MINNESOTA SIOUX Hills FALLS BNSF to UP to Sioux City, IOWA Sioux City, Lincoln Omaha

ELLIS & EASTERN COMPANY Other railroads

17 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, Chief Operating Officer Phone: 651-632-9022, [email protected] Matt Looyen, Chief Financial Officer 651-632-9008 Josh Waltman, Chief Mech. Officer-Cars 651-632-9020 Joe Kellner, Chief Marketing Officer 651-632-9018 Robert Bagaus, Chief Maint. of Way Officer & Sig. 651-632-9013 The Minnesota Commercial Railway (MNNR) The railroad serves 82 customers, including owns or leases 128 miles of track in Anoka, Henne- seven grain elevators and two flour mills in the Twin pin, Ramsey and Washington counties. Minnesota Cities. Other major customers include: WestRock, Commercial connects with all Twin Cities railroads. Rather, Saab, Weekes Forest Products, and the Hugo and Roseville industrial parks. MNNR extends the railroad’s economic benefits to non-rail served customers through truck-rail trans- The Minnesota Commercial began operations load programs. Its Commercial Transload subsidiary in 1987 when it acquired the Minnesota Transfer provides a 60,000 sq. ft. warehouse that specializes in Railway Company—at the time handling only 8,000 handling heavy steel and other materials. CTM Truck- revenue units. In 2018, the Minnesota Commercial lines, Inc. is licensed by the U.S. DOT and operates 18 handled more than 43,500 revenue units. In the past trucks handling steel, lumber, heavy equipment and four years, Minnesota Commercial has spent about other commodities. A warehouse, transload facility $9.5 million for capital improvements. and team track in Fridley offer reload services for much of the metro area. The Minnesota Transfer Railway was incorpo- rated in 1883 as a switching line and was owned by The railroad serves a total of ten Minnesota com- the major railroads in the Twin Cities area. Rail lines munities with a main line extending from St. Paul into operated today by Minnesota Commercial include the northern suburbs of Anoka County and east to those acquired from the old Minnesota Transfer in Hugo. Amtrak trains travel over the Minnesota Com- 1987, plus lines from other Class I carriers. mercial to reach the St. Paul Union Depot. In addition, MNNR services Amtrak trains. Fridley Hugo White Bear Arden Hills Lake MNNR in Minnesota

Miles of track owned or leased: 128 New Brighton Employees: 96 Little Canada Annual payroll: $6 million Belt Line Roseville Total revenue units: 43,500 Crossing Commodities carried: Lumber, steel, paper, grain and grain products, potash, consumer goods Lauderdale Number of locomotives: 28 Freight cars: 20

MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL Merriam Park

MINNESOTA COMMERCIAL

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

Contact: Darwin Joslyn, General Manager Email: [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 for interchange with the CN. The MD&W has a fleet of 2,000 freight cars, which helps assure prompt, MD&W in Minnesota cost-effective rail service for Boise Inc.—the largest Miles of track owned: 4 employer in Koochiching County and the owner of Employees: 20 the railway. Boise was acquired by Packaging Corpo- ration of America in October 2013. Revenue units: 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 30 employees. MD&W invests $200,000 annually Payroll: $1,500,000 to improve track, machinery and vehicles. The com- Headquarters, rail yard, shops: pany handles about 10,000 carloads annually, mostly related to paper or paper products. Along with its rail International Falls operation, 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 Duluth-Superior

KOOCHICHING

19 MINNESOTA NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY P.O. Box 705 (mailing address) Phone: 218-281-4704 1420 S. Main St. Crookston, MN 56716 FAX: 218-281-1713 Contacts: Monique Hollands, Manager of Administration Phone: 218-281-1750 Email: [email protected] Don Porter, Superintendent of Operations Email: [email protected] Jason Bierwerth, Manager of Operations Email: [email protected] Derek Gagner, Manager of Engineering Email: [email protected] LeAnn Halland, Manager of Customer Service Email: [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: 115 to Roseau and St. Hilaire, south from Crookston to Employees: 15 Nielsville and east to Tilden Junction. Minnesota Northern also serves the “Wilds” industrial yard in Total carloads: 17,000 the southwest corner of Crookston. Commodities: Grain, seeds, sugar and sugar by-products, Minnesota Northern connects with BNSF at aggregates, coal, feeds, fertilizers Crookston and CP at Thief River Falls. Total mileage owned and operated is 192, including trackage rights Number of locomotives: 8 over other railroads. Number of freight cars: 10 Based in Crookston, Minnesota Northern has Headquarters, rail yards, shops: Crookston 15 employees and handles approximately 17,000 carloads annually. Principal commodities carried are grain, seeds, sugar and sugar by-products, ag- gregates, coal, feeds and fertilizers. LAKE OF THE WOODS The company has eight locomotives; freight cars are supplied by BNSF or CP and Roseau MNN owns ten grain hopper cars. Minnesota Northern grain customers can reach markets Badger throughout North America, via MNN’s connec- Greenbush tions with BNSF and CP. KITTSON Strathcona ROSEAU

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NORMAN MAHNOMEN

20 MINNESOTA PRAIRIE LINE INC. 2925 12th Street East Phone: 320-864-7200 Glencoe, MN 55336 Website: https://tcwr.net/about/minnesota-prairie-line-mpl/

Contacts: Mark Wegner, President Phone: 320-864-7204 Email: [email protected]

Minnesota Valley Regional Rail Authority Julie Rath, MVRRA, Administrator Phone: (507) 637-4084 Website: http://www.mvrra.org

Minnesota Prairie Line Inc. (MPL) is a wholly Prior to MPL, the rail line was operated by a owned subsidiary of the Twin Cities & Western Rail- series of short lines following abandonment by the road, based in Glencoe, Minn. Chicago and North Western in the 1980s. The line was originally part of the Minneapolis & St. Louis MPL operates 94 miles of track owned by the Railway’s line to the Missouri River. Minnesota Valley Regional Railroad Authority (MVR- RA) between Norwood and Hanley Falls, Minnesota. MPL works in partnership with the MVRRA and the MPL in Minnesota communities it serves to enhance rural economic development. Miles of track operated: 94 Restoration started in April 2002 and MPL began Total carloads: More than 5,000 operations in October 2002. Since then, rail traffic Commodities: Grains, fertilizer, DDGs, has increased year after year. Annual track upgrades salt, ethanol, butter, permitted track speeds to increase to 25 mph in magnesium chloride December 2012 from Winthrop east to Norwood. Headquarters: Glencoe Maintenance shops: Glencoe, Morton

SissetonSisseton BIG STONE

SMRR Ortonville ANOKA Odessa SWIFT KANDYOHI WASHINGTON Appleton HENNEPIN MINNEAPOLIS Milbank Milan CHIPPEWA MINNESOTA ST. PAUL North Watson Camden MontevioMontevideo RAMSEY LAC QUI PARLE Hopkins Pigs Eye/ Wegdahl Chanhassen Granite Falls Daytons Bluff Minnesota Falls Jonathan MinnesotaSacred FallsRenville Heart Ruebel Danube yards Olivia Bird Island yards Hector Plato NorwoodBongards Cologne Buffalo LakeStewart Brownton GLENCOEGLE Hanley Falls Savage CARVER SOUTH YELLOW MEDICINE RENVILLE MCLEOD Hamburg SCOTT DAKOTA DAKOTA SIBLEY Green Isle

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21 NORTHERN LINES RAILWAY, LLC 601 20th Avenue North, Suite C Phone: 320-253-8130 St. Cloud, MN 56303 FAX: 320-253-8952, 320-253-8095 Website: http://www.anacostia.com/railroads/nlr Contacts: Justin Chalich, President Phone: 320-980-6297 Steve Thissen, Lead Transportation Specialist 320-253-8130

Northern Lines Railway (NLR) began operations Northern Lines replaced two older locomotives on April 23, 2005 and currently operates on 17 miles in 2019 with newer, more efficient units. of track leased from BNSF Railway in St. Cloud, Minn., with branch lines extending to Collegeville NLR is a subsidiary of Anacostia Rail Holdings and Rockville, Minn. (www.anacostia.com), a transportation and develop- ment firm based in Chicago and New York, which has NLR connects with BNSF at St. Cloud and handles developed eight new railroads since it was formed approximately 10,000 carloads annually, providing in 1985. daily switching service to major customers including Archer Daniels Midland, Borgert Products, Inc., CHS, At one time, NLR’s lines were operated by the Cold Spring Granite, Electrolux, Maiers Transport Great Northern Railway, which was merged into Bur- & Warehousing, Knife River Corp., Manion’s Whole- lington Northern when it was created in 1970. sale Building Supply, Mathew Hall Lumber, Martin Marietta, Tamarack Materials, Wenner Gas Co. and WestRock. In addition, NLR offers multiple transload Northern Lines Railway locations for customers lacking a rail siding. Miles of track operated: 17 Employees: 8 Since beginning operations in 2005, NLR has com- pleted tie replacement projects on the Collegeville Total carloads: 10,000 and Rockville spurs and constructed about 1.5 miles Locomotives 3 of main track to facilitate a new road in Waite Park. Principal commodities: Aggregates, grain, In 2014, Wenner Gas and CHS expanded the Rockville hydraulic cement, lumber, Propane Terminal into one of the largest transfer paper and pulboard. facilities in the U.S., handling approximately 1,200 Administrative offices: St. Cloud carloads annually.

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Rockville SHERBURNE

BNSF to Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City

22 NORTHERN PLAINS RAILROAD, INC. 114 Main Street South P.O. Box 38 Phone: 701-229-3330 Fordville, ND 58231 FAX: 701-229-3365 Web: www.nprail.com Contacts: Jesse J. Chalich, President [email protected] Mike Bachmeier, AVP Safety and Operations Svcs. [email protected] Dan Mack, Executive Vice President [email protected]

Northern Plains Railroad (NPR) was formed in for opening in Grand Forks, N.D. NPRS is a M1003- January 1997 when the company leased 388 miles Association of American Railroads certified shop. In of branch lines in Minnesota and North Dakota from addition, NPRS constructs and maintains tracks and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). Lines extend west services locomotives on a contract basis. from Thief River Falls to Devils Lake, N.D. and run north and west from Fordville, N.D. to a connection with the CP at Kenmare, N.D. Northern Plains also connects with CP at Thief River Falls.

Based in Fordville, Northern Plains has 75 em- ployees and serves 40 communities, including six Northern Plains in Minnesota. Miles of track: 348 (45 miles in Minnesota) The company has 25 locomotives and 60 freight Employees: 75 cars. A majority of freight cars are supplied by CP. Total carloads: 20,000 Northern Plains grain customers can reach all grain Locomotives: 25 markets through NPR’s connections with CP. Freight cars: 60 Northern Plains Rail Services (NPRS), a NPR Principal commodities: Small grains, affiliate, performs running repairs, contract main- aggregates, frac sand and fertilizer tenance services, and painting for locomotives and freight cars at its shops located in Erskine, Minn. and Administrative offices: Fordville, N.D. Fordville, N.D. A new rail car repair facility is slated

CPR to Canada

MARSHALL

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

NORTH PENNINGTON DAKOTA

POLK RED LAKE CPR to Twin Cities

23 OTTER TAIL VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY, INC.

200 North Mill Street Phone: 218-736-6073 Fergus Falls, MN 56537 FAX: 218-736-7636 Website: http://www.gwrr.com/otvr Contact: Dan Rickel, General Manager Phone: 218-736-6073 Email: [email protected] Troy Dodds, Assistant General Manager

Otter Tail Valley Railroad Company, Inc. (OTVR) interchanges traffic with BNSF at Dilworth yard, just operates 71 miles of former Burlington Northern east of Moorhead. (now BNSF) trackage between Fergus Falls and Moorhead/Dilworth, Minn. Branch lines extend from The line now operated by OTVR was once part of Fergus Falls to French and Hoot Lake, plus a five-mile the Great Northern Railway’s main line between St. branch from Barnesville to Downer. OTVR serves Cloud and Fargo/Moorhead. Great Northern merged six communities as well as the Moorhead McCara into Burlington Northern when it was created in 1970 Industrial Park. and now operates as BNSF Railway.

OTVR was formed in 1986 and is one of 120 freight railroads owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Otter Tail Valley in Minnesota RailAmerica, Inc. purchased the railroad in Septem- ber 1996 from its owners, Anacostia Rail Holdings Miles of track owned: 71 Company. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. then acquired RailAmerica on October 1, 2012. Employees: 11 Locomotives: 3 Principal commodities transported by OTVR Principal commodities: Grain, coal, ethanol are grain, coal and ethanol. The railroad is locally managed. OTVR owns three 2,000-to-3,000 h.p. die- Administrative offices: Fergus Falls sel locomotives. Freight cars are supplied through BNSF Railway, or are customer-leased/owned. OTVR

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

24 PROGRESSIVE RAIL INCORPORATED Airlake Industrial Park Phone: 952- 985-7245 21778 Highview Ave. 1-888-PRO-RAIL (776-7245) Lakeville, MN 55044 FAX: 952- 314-7023 Email: [email protected] Contacts: Website: http://www.progressiverail.com Dave Fellon, Owner Email: [email protected] Rob Russell, President [email protected] Layne Leitner, Chief Operating Officer [email protected] Nick Dillon, Managing Director - Finance [email protected] Jeanette Lentz, General Mgr. - Customer Service [email protected]

Progressive Rail Incorporated (PGR) is a con- expansion provides PGR with access to more than tract rail carrier that operates 92 miles of line in 450 acres of rail-served industrial development the greater Twin Cities area, including operations property. In May 2004, PGR assumed operations of to Cannon Falls, Northfield, Lakeville and Faribault, Canadian Pacific’s yard in Northfield, Minn., tying into Minn. Administration offices are located in Lakeville. its current Airlake Industrial Park operation and the Rosemount to Eagandale industrial spur. In January PGR operates a total of 11 railroads in eight states 2019, PGR assumed operations of CP’s seven-mile with 161 employees and 41 locomotives. line from Faribault to a connection with the Union Pacific at Comus, Minn. Progressive Rail began operations on Septem- ber 25, 1996 in Airlake Industrial Park in Lakeville, Progressive Rail also offers transloading services, formerly operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway which allows customers to transfer cargo from rail to (CP). In February 2001, Progressive Rail leased nine truck. In addition, PGR can provide temporary stor- miles of track from CP, known as the Dan Patch Line, age of materials in heated, 110,000 sq. ft. warehouses from Bloomington to south Minneapolis. in Lakeville and Bloomington.

In March 2004, in partnership with the Union Pacific (UP), PGR acquired the former Cannon Falls subdivision and operations to Faribault, Minn. This Progressive Rail in Minnesota Miles of track owned: 22 CP to Canada Employees: 73

ST. PAUL Locomotives: 10 MINNEAPOLIS Total carloads: 15,000 Richfield Principal commodities: Forest products, CP, UP to Chicago cement/flyash, pipe, paper, Eagan Bloomington grain, propane, plastics, canned goods, Rosemount chemicals, building products, salt Administrative offices: Lakeville Lakeville Randolph Cannon Falls PGR Trackage rights Northfield Other railroads Comus PROGRESSIVE RAIL INCORPORATED Faribault

UP to Kansas City, Texas

25 RAPID CITY, PIERRE & EASTERN RAILROAD, INC. 246 Founders Park Drive, Suite 202 Phone: 605-877-3699 Rapid City, SD 57701 FAX: 605-341-3703 Website: http://www.gwrr.com/rcpe Contacts: Daniel Dalton, General Manager 307-660-4208, [email protected] Nick Smith, Manager of Sales and Marketing 605-877-4512, [email protected]

The Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCPE) The original line from Tracy to the South Dakota is based in Rapid City, S.D. and operates 670 route state line was built in 1879 by the Chicago & Dakota miles of track in four states extending from Tracy, Railway, a predecessor of the Chicago and North Minn. to Rapid City, north to Colony, Wyo., south to Western (C&NW). The line was completed to Rapid Dakota Jct., Neb., as well as trackage from Dakota City in 1907. Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern bought Junction to Crawford, Neb. this and other trackage from the C&NW in 1986. DM&E was acquired by Canadian Pacific on October RCP&E, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming 30, 2008. Inc., began freight service on June 1, 2014 on former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (DM&E) track Genesee & Wyoming Inc., based in Darien, Conn., acquired May 30, 2014 from Canadian Pacific Railway. owns or leases 120 freight railroads totaling more than 13,000 track-miles in 41 states and four Canadian RCP&E connects with BNSF, Canadian Pacific and provinces. Union Pacific railroads. Mechanical shops are located in Huron, S.D. and Rapid City. RCP&E in Minnesota In 2019, Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern was named Miles of track owned: 670 (43 in Minnesota) “Regional Railroad of the Year” by Railway Age. RCP&E’s achievements include growing revenues Employees: 175 20 percent since 2015. With help from federal and Locomotives: 49 state grants, RCP&E invested more than $80 million to upgrade its line which, in turn, helped attract new Rail yard in Minnesota: Tracy customer investments exceeding $300 million. Commodities: Grain, bentonite clay, ethanol, fertilizer, and other products

New Ulm LambertonSpringfieldSleepy Eye LYON LambertonSpringfield SOUTH DAKOTA Balaton TRACYTracy Janesville LINCOLN To Mankato, REDWOOD Lake Benton Minneapolis-St. Paul, BROWN Chicago, Kansas City To Rapid City, Winnebago Texas and COTTONWOOD WATONWAN FairmontGranada West Coast PIPESTONE MURRAY Sherburn New Richland Alpha Hartland

Eastonells

ROCK NOBLES JACKSON MARTIN FARIBAULT

IOWA RCP&E Canadian Pacific

26 RED RIVER VALLEY & WESTERN RAILROAD CO. Contacts: Website: http://www.rrvw.net Victor Meyers, President P.O. Box 608 Phone: 701-642-8257 Daniel L. Zink, VP Economic Development 209 Dakota Avenue FAX: 701-642-5102 and Community Affairs Wahpeton, ND 58075

Rich Jaehning, Director of Marketing 501 Minnesota Ave. Phone: 218-643-4994 Mike Burlaga, Operations Manager Breckenridge, MN 56520 FAX: 218-643-4980 Jamie Martin, Track & Structures Manager Dave Volk, Freight Car Repair Manager

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 tripled its freight Since 1987, more than $50 million has been al- volume and has moved more than 1.3 million car- located for capital projects. In 2015, RRVW spent an loads of freight for customers. RRVW employs about additional $14 million to replace 37 miles of track 110 people, up from 45 at start-up. with heavier rail—the largest capital project to date. More than 100 miles of track are surfaced each year RRVW owns or operates on 577 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 RRVW in Minnesota the United States. RRVW was named 2005 Regional Miles of track owned: 440 (3 in Minnesota) Railroad of the Year by Railway Age. Employees: 110 RRVW presently has more than 80 customers in Total carloads (2018): 71,972 Minnesota and North Dakota. The railroad serves some 37 grain elevators (including ten shuttle facili- Locomotives: 15 ties), which generate more than 50 percent of the Commodities: Grain, sugar, corn syrup, traffic, and two ethanol plants. The railroad’s locomo- aggregates, lumber, plastic, fertilizer, tive shops and a large marshaling yard are located petroleum products, coal, steel, in Breckenridge, Minn., while administrative offices farm machinery, ag processing by-products, are located across the Red River in Wahpeton, N.D. and wind turbine components. In mid-2009, RRVW dedicated a new two-track, Administrative offices: Wahpeton, N.D. 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 Red River MINNESOTA Valley Western Colfax Kent W ILKIN 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

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

Contacts: Monique Hollands, Manager of Administration Phone: 218-281-4704 Email: [email protected] Don Porter, Superintendent of Operations Email: [email protected] Jason Bierwerth, Manager of Operations Email: [email protected] Derek Gagner, Manager of Engineering Email: [email protected] LeAnn Halland, Customer Service Email: [email protected] The St. Croix Valley Railroad owns and operates Principal commodities carried include grain, 36 miles of former BNSF Railway trackage from Hinck- flour, fertilizers and frac sand. The railroad handles ley to North Branch, Minn. Interchange is made with approximately 6,500 carloads annually and is locally BNSF at Hinckley. managed. The railroad owns four locomotives; all freight cars are supplied by BNSF. St. Croix Valley has five 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: 5 BNSF Annual carloads: 6,500 Principal commodities: Grain, flour, fertilizers and frac sand Locomotives: 4 BNSF to Minneapolis Headquarters, rail yards, shops: Rush City Pine City

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

Contact: Mark Wegner, President and CEO Phone: 320-864-7204 Email: [email protected]

The Twin Cities & Western Railroad (TC&W) op- TC&W has approximately 85 employees, most of erates 229 miles of track and serves some of Minne- them working out of the Glencoe terminal. sota’s most productive agricultural counties. TC&W shipments consist primarily of agricultural products. Subsidiaries include Minnesota Prairie Line, Inc. The railroad also provides truck/rail transload ser- and Sisseton Milbank Railroad Company. vices at Montevideo and Glencoe, Minnesota along with railcar storage services. TC&W in Minnesota Operations began on July 27, 1991 between Miles of track owned: 146 Minneapolis-St. Paul and Milbank, S.D. over what was formerly known as the “Ortonville Line,” operated by Employees: 85 the Soo Line (now Canadian Pacific). Previously, it Locomotives: 14 was part of the former Milwaukee Road’s main line Freight cars: More than 500 to the Pacific Northwest. Track was constructed in the 1870s by the Hastings & Dakota Railway. Total carloads: 18,000 Commodities: Grains, edible beans, sugar, TC&W interchanges in the Twin Cities with BNSF, coal, fertilizers, beet pulp pellets, DDGs, Canadian Pacific, CN, Minnesota Commercial and plastics, lumber, limestone, canned and frozen Union Pacific railroads. TC&W serves Minnesota vegetables, ethanol, LPG, animal fats/tallow, River terminals at Savage and can also access all corn oil, crushed rock, machinery, animal feeds other major river terminals via its connecting rail Headquarters: Glencoe carriers. Maintenance shops: Glencoe, Morton

SissetonSisseton BIG STONE

SMRR & Ortonville Odessa ANOKA SWIFT TC W KANDYOHI WASHINGTON Appleton

HENNEPIN MINNEAPOLIS Milbank Milan CHIPPEWA MINNESOTA ST. PAUL North Watson Camden MontevioMontevideo RAMSEY LAC QUI PARLE Hopkins Pigs Eye/ Wegdahl Chanhassen Granite Falls Daytons Bluff Minnesota Falls Jonathan MinnesotaSacred FallsRenville Heart Ruebel Danube yards Olivia Bird Island yards Hector Plato NorwoodBongards Cologne Buffalo LakeStewart Brownton GLENCOEGLE Hanley Falls Savage CARVER SOUTH YELLOW MEDICINE RENVILLE MCLEOD Hamburg SCOTT DAKOTA Green Isle DAKOTA SIBLEY Green Isle

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Wood Lake Twin Cities & Western Delhi Belview Arlington Minnesota Prairie Line REDWOOD Morton Fairfax Gaylord Franklin Gibbon Sisseton Milbank RR Winthrop

Trackage rights Redwood Falls

29 OTHER RAILROADS SERVING MINNESOTA

AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) Website: http://Amtrak.com 500 West Jackson Boulevard 2nd Floor Tel: 312-544-5118 Chicago, IL 60661 Contact: Derrick L. James Email: [email protected] Senior Manager, Government Affairs

Amtrak’s long-distance, Chicago to Seattle, Wash. and Portland, Ore. Empire Builder passenger train operates daily on 373 miles of BNSF Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway and Minnesota Commercial Railway trackage in Minnesota, serving Winona, Red Wing, St. Paul-Minneapolis, St. Cloud, Staples and Detroit Lakes. One of the most popular long-distance passenger trains in America, the Empire Builder carried a total of 126,721 passengers to and from the six Minnesota stations in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2018. Amtrak has 34 employees in Minnesota. Payroll in 2018 was approximately $3.9 million. In the same period, Amtrak spent $72.7 million for goods and services in the state. Minnesota is in Amtrak’s Central- Northwest Division, which is based in Chicago. Amtrak returned passenger train service to St. Paul Union Depot on May 7, 2014. Union Depot and the track within the 33-acre property are owned by the Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Amtrak provides passenger rail service over a nationwide network of 21,300 route miles connecting 46 states, the District of Columbia, and three Canadian provinces. Amtrak operates more than 300 trains daily, connecting more than 500 destinations and carrying more than 30 million customers for each of the past seven years. Amtrak completed a feasibility for the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation for potential ridership, revenue and operating costs for a second daily, state-sponsored round-trip between St. Paul-Minneapolis and Chicago to supplement the Empire Builder. In March 2019, Amtrak’s CEO met with Gov. Walz to advance this project and to establish Amtrak service with four trains operating daily between Duluth and Minneapolis on 2.5-hour schedules and at speeds up to 90 miles per hour.

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, Director of Railroad 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.

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CP 120 To

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Mississippi R. UP 61 5 61

35E UP 52 35E

3 CP 52 52

35E CP PGR 13 55 494 110 149 To Mason City To 94 ANOKA

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BNSF RAMSEY 35W 694

5 MNNR 36

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

DAKOTA UP 13

MNNR 280 10 77 55 94 62 65

MNNR Central Ave. 77

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BNSF

BNSF 35W 35W 252

94

610 PGR To Duluth To 81 10 62 To Northfield To

12 CP

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

55 METC 169 169 169 494 212 CP 394 212 169 UP 5 101 494 HENNEPIN

BNSF SCOTT TC&W 7 94 12

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

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