Minnesota Commercial Railway
The Minnesota Commercial Railway ( AAR reporting mark : MNNR) is an American shunting railway company in the Twin Cities area .
The company operates a route network of around 200 kilometers. It has around 100 employees and 43 diesel locomotives, some of them different, from GE , EMD , ALCO and Montreal Locomotive Works .
The MNNR has connections to the BNSF Railway , Canadian Pacific Railway , Union Pacific Railroad , Canadian National Railway , Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad and to the Twin Cities and Western Railroad and serves various customers with rail connections in its catchment area. It also ensures freight traffic between the national railway companies.
The company emerged from the "Minnesota Transfer Railway" (MTFR). This railway, which was founded on March 1, 1883, belonged to the railway companies that touched the Twin Cities and served the mutual exchange of freight wagons. On February 1, 1987, the Minnesota Commercial Railway acquired the MTFR under the leadership of management consultant John Gohmann.
literature
- Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide 5th Ed. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 1996, ISBN 0-89024-290-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ James W. Kerr: The official Locomotive Roosters 2006, DPA-LTA Enterprises, ISBN 0-919295-43-6
