Fulton County LLC
The Fulton County LLC ( AAR reporting as mark: FC) is a US -American Shortline -Eisenbahngesellschaft in Fulton County in the state of Indiana . It is owned by Tom Wilson and Wilson Fertilizer and Grain Inc.
The approximately 25 km long route leads from Argos , where there is a transition to Norfolk Southern , south to Rochester .
The company took over this former route of the Norfolk and Western Railway (Rochester Branch) in October 1997 . Operations began on April 1, 1998. Until then, Indiana Hi-Rail, which went bankrupt in 1994, operated the route.
Transport goods are almost exclusively agricultural products.
From April 1981 to 1985 the section Rochester - Monterey of the former Erie Lackawanna main line to Chicago was operated by the then Fulton County Railroad FC . The grain silo in Monterey and other freight customers were thus connected not only to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in North Judson, but also to the Norfolk and Western Railway in Rochester via the Tippecanoe Railroad . At that time the FC had no locomotives of its own; Freight trains running on demand were carried by the Tippecanoe Railroad. 1985 the operation between Monterey and Rochester was given up with the exception of a short section at Rochester. The remaining section was used until the 1990s to operate a grain silo in western Rochester.
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide (5th Edition) . Kalmbach Publishing, Co., 1996, ISBN 978-0-89024-290-2 , pp. 357 (English).
- ↑ IHRC @ Rochester, IN. 1990, accessed March 28, 2020 .