Keokuk Junction Railway
The Keokuk Junction Railway ( AAR reporting mark: KJRY) is an American shortline railway company based in Illinois . It belongs to the Pioneer Railcorp railway group .
history
With the passage of the Staggers Rail Act 1980, the extensive regulations on rail transport in the United States were repealed. Train employees John Warfield took advantage of the opportunities and acquired from the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, skirt Iceland and Pacific Railroad railway facilities of seven kilometers to Keokuk ( Iowa ). The company trading as KNRECO Inc. (Keokuk North Real Estate Company) began operations on September 1, 1981 under the name Keokuk Junction Railway. The company mainly performed shunting services for several industrial companies in Keokuk.
In the same year KNRECO acquired the shares of Keokuk Union Depot Company. The station served as a station for excursions carried out by the company. The company also acquired an earlier Wabash Railroad saloon car and used it under the name Chief Keokuck .
On December 24, 1986, the company acquired the former 54-kilometer route from Keokuk to Warsaw and La Harpe from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway .
On April 10, 1996, the shortline group Pioneer Railcorp acquired the railway company. In the period that followed, the route network was expanded. In December 2001, the 19.5 kilometer section from La Harpe to Lomax and rights to use the route over the BNSF tracks to Fort Madison were acquired. In February 2005, the 122-kilometer route of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad from La Harpe to Peoria followed .
In 2011 the Keokuk Union Depot was leased to the City of Keokuk for 99 years at an annual lease price of $ 1. The Keokuk Union Depot Company continues to exist on paper as a subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp.
vehicles
In 1996 the KJRY had five locomotives. Today, the company is assigned vehicles from the Pioneer Railcorp locomotive pool as required.
Route network
The company operates a 183-kilometer railway line between Peoria, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa, and a 19-kilometer line from La Harpe to Lomax. The railway company also has the right to use the route for 25 kilometers between Lomax and Ft. Madison, Iowa.
In Keokuk there is the transition to the BNSF Railway and in Fort Madison to the Union Pacific Railroad . In Peoria there are connections to various railway companies.
Web links
- Portrait on the Pioneer Railcorp website
- Keokuk Union Depot Foundation website
- Vehicle list on thedieselshop.us
- Photos of locomotives and wagons
literature
- Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide . 5th edition. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 1996, ISBN 0-89024-290-9 , pp. 166 f .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rail News - Keokuk Junction, Burlington Junction founder Warfield passes away. For Railroad Career Professionals. Retrieved November 30, 2017 (American English).
- ^ Federal Register, Volume 61 Issue 59 (Tuesday March 26, 1996). Retrieved November 30, 2017 .
- ↑ KEOKUK UNION DEPOT: Historic Structure Report