The Indiana Rail Road Company is a 500-mile regional freight railroad, hauling some 170,000 carloads of freight – more than 15 million tons of goods annually. The railroad carries traffic between Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Newton, Illinois, with connections to major western and southern carriers. Indiana Rail Road was founded in 1986 and maintains headquarters in Indianapolis.
In 1985, their last full year of operation, the Illinois Central moved approximately 12,000 carloads. Since the acquisition, The Indiana Rail Road has grown the business to over 105,000 annual carloads. In the past ten years The Indiana Rail Road Company has invested more than fifty million dollars in its track and equipment by installing new track, increasing train speeds and upgrading its locomotive fleet.
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INRD offers customers direct connections to western carriers at Chicago, including BNSF Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, CP, CN, CSXT, as well as several regionals and short lines. In Louisville, INRD connects with Norfolk Southern, CSXT, Paducah and Louisville, and the Louisville & Indiana.
The Indiana Rail Road Company connects with all major Class One rail carriers in its territory: CSX Transportation, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern. The Indiana Rail Road Company also connects with the Indiana Southern Railroad, Central Railroad Company of Indiana and the Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company.
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| INRD delivering coal into one of three power plants served by the company. |
The Indiana Rail Road conducts business daily with a wide range of customers from small independently owned companies to several top Fortune 100 companies. One of INRD's primary businesses is transporting coal from southwestern Indiana as well as from The Powder River Basin. Our coal customers include: Indianapolis Power & Light generating station in Indianapolis, Indiana, Hoosier Energy generating station in Merom, Indiana, AmerenEnergy generating station in Newton, Illinois, and Duke Energy's Wabash River Generating Station in Terre Haute.
Additional major revenue sources include chemicals and petroleum products from Marathon Petroleum's major refinery at Robinson, Illinois. The company's traffic mix has grown to include a significant amount of time-sensitive, high-value products, such as refrigerators from General Electric's manufacturing facility in Bloomington, Indiana. INRD also moves raw materials into the Hershey chocolate plant at Robinson, Illinois. Other commodities handled include lumber, plastics, food products, scrap metal and recyclables as well as grain and grain products. The Indiana Reload Center is an extension of Indiana Rail Road and provides transloading, storage bays and warehousing for lumber and a wide variety of other commodities. |
