Panhandle Northern

Company History: The PNR runs the 31 mile former Santa Fe line between Panhandle and Borger, Texas. They serve the nation’s largest petrochemical facility not located at a port. Today, customers include Agrium, Chevron Phillips, Conoco Phillips, Orion, Sid Richardson, Texas Pipe, and Van Waters. Santa Fe leased the line to PNR in 1993. They are part of the OmniTRAX shortline group.

Successor/Parent History: OmniTRAX, Inc is one of North America’s largest private railroad and transportation management companies with interests in railroads, terminals, ports and industrial real estate. OmniTRAX operates a network of 21 regional and short line railroads that cover 12 states in the US and 3 provinces in Canada. The company’s railroads have interchanges with BNSF, CN, CSXT, NS & UP, and transport commodities within the Agricultural, Aggregate & Industrial Mineral, Energy, Food, Crude Oil, Chemical, Lumber, Metal, Petroleum and Plastic industries.

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