Anacostia and Pacific Company
The Anacostia & Pacific Company (FCRR) is an American company that sets up, manages and advises railway companies . The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Chicago .
Anacostia & Pacific operates six railroad companies in the United States through the Chicago-based subsidiary Anacostia Rail Holdings Company , which was founded in 1985 :
- Chicago, SouthShore and South Bend Railroad (located in Michigan City, Indiana ; founded in 1990)
- Gulf Coast Switching Company (based in Dayton, Texas ; founded in 2008)
- Louisville and Indiana Railroad (based in Jeffersonville, Indiana ; founded in 1994)
- New York and Atlantic Railway (based in New York City ; founded 1997)
- Northern Lines Railway (based in St. Cloud, Minnesota ; founded in 2004)
- Pacific Harbor Line (based in Los Angeles ; founded in 1998)
As the first of these companies, Anacostia Rail Holdings founded the Chicago, SouthShore and South Bend Railroad in December 1990 to handle freight traffic on the South Shore Line southeast of Chicago from the insolvent Venango River Corporation and its almost identically named Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Take over Railroad . Much of the infrastructure and passenger traffic on the South Shore Line was taken over at the same time by the state's Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD).
Anacostia & Pacific was also involved in the formation of the MidSouth Rail , Otter Tail Valley Railroad , Montana Rail Link (in which it still has shares) and the Kiamichi Railroad .
Abroad, the company was involved in privatizations in Argentina ( Nuevo Central Argentino ) and Chile ( Ferrocarril Del Pacifico ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kevin P. Keefe: South Shore Freights - Fabulour Franchise . In: Trains Magazine . June 2017 ( anacostia.com [PDF]).
- ^ The Historical Guide to North American Railroads . Kalmbach Media, 2014, ISBN 978-0-89024-970-3 , pp. 104 (English).