Louisville and Indiana acquires former short line – Seymour Tribune

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Louisville and Indiana Railroad, an affiliate of Chicago-based Anacostia Rail Holdings Co., has acquired the property and working rights of the previous Southern Indiana Railway, a brief line positioned within the Louisville metropolitan space.

Till 2020, Southern Indiana Railway served clients alongside its 5.5 miles of line between Velocity and a reference to CSX Transportation in Watson. The Floor Transportation Board authorised the acquisition April 5, noting with SIND out of service, no present workers are affected by the motion.

Louisville and Indiana is a 106-mile quick line railroad linking Indianapolis with Louisville. Its connections embody CSX, Norfolk Southern, Indiana Rail Street and Paducah and Louisville.

With the acquisition full, Louisville and Indiana will use Southern Indiana Railway rail property to boost LIRC’s current freight service, together with conversion of the SIND engine home to a maintenance-of-way facility and surrounding property to retailer observe materials. Different parts of SIND rail infrastructure provide alternatives to develop service to industrial websites.

“We see this as a method to develop our footprint,” LIRC President John Goldman mentioned. “The prevailing observe is maintained to FRA Class 1 requirements, and we are going to take into account upgrades and rehabilitation depending on business alternatives we will create.”

Southern Indiana Railway traced its historical past to the 1905 growth of the Louisville and Northern Electrical Traction Co., an interurban line owned by Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull, and the next 1939 sale of a portion of the road to type Southern Indiana Railway.