Patriot Rail Company
Railroad holding company
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Patriot Rail Company LLC (Patriot Rail) is a holding company for a number of shortline railroads across the United States.
In June 2012, Patriot Rail was acquired by SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners (SteelRiver). In 2019, SteelRiver sold Patriot Rail to First Sentier Group.[1]
On August 8, 2022, Patriot Rail announced that it was to acquire Pioneer Lines.[2]
Holdings
Patriot Rail has 31 active railroad operations.[3]
- Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway
- Columbia and Cowlitz Railway
- Decatur Junction Railway
- Delta Southern Railroad
- DeQueen and Eastern Railroad
- Elkhart & Western Railroad
- Fort Smith Railroad
- Front Range Railroad
- Garden City Western Railway
- Georgia Northeastern Railroad
- Georgia Southern Railway
- Gettysburg & Northern Railroad
- Golden Triangle Railroad
- Indiana Southwestern Railway
- Kendallville Terminal Railway
- Keokuk Junction Railway
- Kingman Terminal Railroad
- Lakeshore Terminal Railroad
- Louisiana and North West Railroad
- Merced County Central Valley Railroad
- Michigan Southern Railroad
- Mississippi Central Railroad
- Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railway
- Pioneer Industrial Railway
- Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad
- Ripley & New Albany Railroad
- Sacramento Valley Railroad
- Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway
- Temple and Central Texas Railway
- Tennessee Southern Railroad
- Utah Central Railway
- Vandalia Railroad
Former holdings
- Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad. This line was acquired from Weyerhaeuser in 2010, but due to issues about a damaged bridge on a connecting railroad, Patriot filed for abandonment in 2011,[4] and the line has since become a rail-to-trail conversion.[5]
