Headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota (a southern suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul), Progressive Rail, Inc. was established in 1996 to initially serve the Airlake Industrial Park. In 2001, they leased the former Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway "High Line" in Bloomington and Richfield and started restoring trackage.[3] The company's philosophy has been to provide service that a large railway chooses not to provide. They have also focused on economic development, including finding new customers, and working on regaining former rail customers along their lines. This strategy has paid off in an increase in traffic, from 600 carloads in their first year of operation to more than 5000 carloads in 2003.[4]
Major commodities include resins, chemicals, fuels, lumber, gypsum board, cement, fly-ash, metals, paper, machinery, food and kindred products, scrap material, and consumer products.
Progressive Rail, Inc. also operates wholly owned subsidiary Progressive Rail Specialized Logistics, which provides rail logistics services for machinery and over-dimensional freight shippers.[5]
progressive, rail, progressive, rail, reporting, mark, shortline, railroad, owner, several, other, shortlines, directly, operating, several, separate, branches, minnesota, including, airlake, terminal, railway, progressive, rail, also, acquired, wisconsin, nor. Progressive Rail Inc reporting mark PGR is a shortline railroad and owner of several other shortlines PGR is directly operating several separate branches in Minnesota including the Airlake Terminal Railway Progressive Rail also acquired the Wisconsin Northern Division in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin and operates as a separately named division They also own the Chicago Junction Railroad Clackamas Valley Railway the Iowa Traction Railway and Iowa Southern Railway in Iowa the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad in Illinois the St Paul amp Pacific Northwest Railroad and the Wisconsin Northern Railroad Progressive Rail Inc OverviewHeadquartersLakeville MinnesotaReporting markPGRLocaleMinnesotaWisconsinMissouriDates of operation1996 presentTechnicalTrack gauge4 ft 8 1 2 in 1 435 mm standard gaugeOtherWebsiteProgressive Rail Inc Progressive Rail Specialized Logistics Cannon Valley Railroad redirects here For the abandoned Cannon Valley railroad line see Cannon Valley Trail History For the closed heritage railroad see Northfield amp Cannon Valley Railroad Progressive Rail is also known as the Cannon Valley Railroad reporting mark CVRC 1 The PGR branches are listed as follows Transload Industrial Park Airlake Terminal Railway Lakeville Minnesota The High Line a k a Dan Patch Line Bloomington Minnesota Richfield Minnesota and Minneapolis Minnesota Service begins at Auto Club Yard in Bloomington and serves a variety of industries The Jesse James Line Northfield to Lakeville leased CP Rail trackage 2 Northfield to Faribault Minnesota via leased Union Pacific trackage Northfield to Cannon Falls Minnesota with service to the Great Western Industrial Park in Randolph Minnesota Eagandale Industrial line Eagan Minnesota via leased CP Rail trackage former Milwaukee Road Santa Cruz Branch Line Davenport to Watsonville California operating with the Santa Cruz Big Trees and Pacific Railway as a subcontractor Progressive Rail train in Northfield Minnesota Contents 1 History 2 Locomotive roster 3 References 4 External linksHistory editHeadquartered in Lakeville Minnesota a southern suburb of Minneapolis St Paul Progressive Rail Inc was established in 1996 to initially serve the Airlake Industrial Park In 2001 they leased the former Minneapolis Northfield and Southern Railway High Line in Bloomington and Richfield and started restoring trackage 3 The company s philosophy has been to provide service that a large railway chooses not to provide They have also focused on economic development including finding new customers and working on regaining former rail customers along their lines This strategy has paid off in an increase in traffic from 600 carloads in their first year of operation to more than 5000 carloads in 2003 4 Major commodities include resins chemicals fuels lumber gypsum board cement fly ash metals paper machinery food and kindred products scrap material and consumer products Progressive Rail Inc also operates wholly owned subsidiary Progressive Rail Specialized Logistics which provides rail logistics services for machinery and over dimensional freight shippers 5 Locomotive roster editLocomotive model Road number EMD SW1500 34 36 37 38 67 74 2347 EMD SD39 40 EMD SD40 2 41 43 EMD SD38 2 42 EMD GP15 1 1500 1501 EMD GP40 2 6211 6 References edit UP Cannon Valley Rail Co CVRC 186 Jesse James Line PDF progressiverail com Retrieved 31 July 2023 Black Sam August 26 2001 Progressive Rail buys Southwest Line Minneapolis St Paul Business Journal Retrieved July 8 2012 Weyer Jake March 23 2003 Short rail line tracks growth Minneapolis St Paul Business Journal Retrieved July 8 2012 Progressive Rail Specialized Logistics official site Archived from the original on 2006 07 14 Retrieved 2006 06 18 Progressive Rail External links edit nbsp Railways portal Progressive Rail Inc official site Progressive Rail Specialized Logistics official site Current locomotive roster Union Pacific shortline customer description Canadian Pacific shortline customer description University of Minnesota Railroad Club Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Progressive Rail Inc amp oldid 1219789201, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
