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Transportation Company - Ottawa Vslley - Railroad
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Company NameOttawa Vslley
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1996
TerminationSubsidiary
Successor/ParentGenesee & Wyoming (Details)
CountryCanada (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Ottawa Vslley - Railroad



Company History: The 150 mile OVR runs from the greater Sudbury, Ontario area east to Mattawa and then north to Temsicaming, Quebec on a line leased from Canadian Pacific. The company was launched in 1996 by the RaiLink Canada family of shortlines (RaiLink joined the RailAmerica group in 1999 who in turn joined the Genesee & Wyoming group in 2012.) Originally, the leased line continued east from Mattawa to Smith Falls and hosted a fair amount of CP overflow traffic, especially intermodal trains. By 2009, CP had worked around the problem and with little traffic on the east end, OVR declined to renew the lease for that portion. With the overflow traffic now a thing of the past, OVR now moves an average of 154 cars per week on the line, most of which is chemicals and forest products.
Successor/Parent History:
Known today as the largest of the shortline holding companies, Genesee & Wyoming began as a shortline by that name in 1899 with a 15 mile line between Retsof and Caledonia, New York, just south of Rochester. In 1982, they extended southward to Greigsville by buying a former Lackawanna line from Conrail. In 1985, another purchase extended their reach north to Rochester and southwest to Silver Springs. This brought the mileage up to about 90. The Wyoming in the name is a reference to the Wyoming Valley.

In 1977, the railroad set up Genesee & Wyoming Inc. as a parent company. In 1985, they began to buy other shortlines and launch new ones as various Class One routes came up for sale or lease. Each of these lines operates under their own names but share the orange, yellow and black GNWR paint scheme, variations of which have been used by GNWR for decades. The logos of these related lines also use the GNWR style but with different wording and the occasional personalized element.

As of this writing, the Genesee & Wyoming family includes 121 shortline and regional railroads spread across North America, Europe and Australia. As of 2019, G&W became a subsidiary of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. G&W has also bought other shortline groups, notably Rail Link in 1996, Summit View (the Ohio Central System) in 2008, Rail Management in 2005,.CAGY Industries in 2008, and largest of all RailAmerica in 2012.

Ironically, the Genesee & Wyoming Railroad was merged into the Rochester & Southern in 2003. The GNWR exists as a paper railroad but the logos on the diesels patrolling the old GNWR now say Rochester & Southern or the neighboring Buffalo & Pittsburgh.
Brief History:
Canada is a North American country stretching from the U.S. in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north. Major cities include massive Toronto, west coast film centre Vancouver, French-speaking Montréal and Québec City, and capital city Ottawa. Canada's vast swaths of wilderness include lake-filled Banff National Park in the Rocky Mountains. It's also home to Niagara Falls, a famous group of massive waterfalls.
Item created by: gdm on 2021-05-09 12:30:48. Last edited by gdm on 2021-05-09 12:31:03

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