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Transportation Company - Chicago Rail Link - Railroad
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Company NameChicago Rail Link
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1985
TerminationSubsidiary
Successor/ParentOmnitrax (Details)
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Chicago Rail Link - Railroad



Company History: CRL is a switching line linking Kensington, Blue Island, Mokena and Chicago, Illinois. The length of the route is about 30 miles, with 72 track miles. The company was born from the 1985 reorganization of the troubled LaSalle & Bureau County. In 1988, the Chicago Rail Link was purchased and merged by the Chicago West Pullman & Southern but the Chicago Rail Link name was the one that survived. In 1991 Chicago Rail Link became part of the OmniTRAX shortline group. Connections are with Belt Railway of Chicago, South Shore and Iowa Interstate.
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.
Brief History:
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.

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Item created by: gdm on 2019-07-29 14:25:46

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