Oyen Regional Rail Company
Transport Canada, through the National Trade Corridors Fund, will provide the Town of Oyen, Alberta, with C$11.8 million to expand the Oyen Rail Yard, which is owned by Oyen Regional Rail Company. The project is slated to add more than 38,200 feet of track next to the existing yard, “enabling the creation of agricultural and industrial park and short line railway,” according to the government agency, which made the announcement on Aug. 8. This expansion, it said, will benefit 400 local producers and 15 businesses “by improving their connection to larger freight rail networks, helping them to get their products to market more reliably.”
The 35-acre Oyen Rail Yard and 120-acre Logistics Park has been certified by CN as a “Rail Ready Site” with 3,000 feet of direct line access.
RSOR
Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) earlier this month reported via LinkedIn the 20th anniversary of subsidiary RSOR (see map, right). Spanning 22 miles, this short line railroad interchanges with CSX in Savannah, Ga.
Also celebrating anniversaries this summer: G&W’s 384-mile New England Central Railroad (NECR) and 743-mile Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCPE).
NECR, Railway Age’s 1995 Short Line of the Year, has served customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont for 30 years, and RCPE has served customers in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming for 10 years.
In other G&W news, Michael Miller, CEO of North American Operations, will be a speaker at the 2024 Railway Age / RT&S Women in Rail Conference, to be held Nov. 5-6 in Chicago. Part of the Passenger and Freight Rail Technology and Innovation panel, he will address the role autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles will play in the freight industry. Also, Cathcart on June 24 reported being selected by Central Oregon & Pacific, a G&W subsidiary, to provide railcar inspection and repair services across the 362-mile railroad’s major yards in Roseburg, Cottage Grove, and Medford, Ore.
