Farmrail Corporation
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Farmrail Corporation (AAR reporting marks FMRC) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Clinton, Oklahoma. FMRC is an employee-owned company.
FMRC operates two connected lines:
- An 82-mile line from Erick, Oklahoma, through Clinton, to Weatherford, Oklahoma.
- A 104-mile line from Westhorn, Oklahoma, through Clinton, to Elmer, Oklahoma.
FMRC also operates, under its wholly owned subsidiary Grainbelt Corporation, 176 miles of lines from Enid, Oklahoma, to Frederick, Oklahoma, and over 59 miles of BNSF Railway trackage rights from Snyder, Oklahoma, to Quanah, Texas.
FMRC and Grainbelt traffic includes wheat, steel products, fertilizer, rail cars undergoing repair, gypsum rock and associated products, oil field materials, cotton, lumber, feed grains and meals, and farm implements.
The FMRC lines are owned by the state of Oklahoma and were leased to FMRC in 1993. The Grainbelt line began operations as a short-line railroad in 1987.
[edit] External links
- Link to Union Pacific Website with FMRC Details
- Link to Union Pacific Website with GNBC Details
- Farmrail Corporation
