# Patriot Rail Company

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**Patriot Rail Company** LLC (Patriot Rail) is a [holding company](/source/Holding_company) for a number of [shortline](/source/Short-line_railroad) railroads across the United States.

In June 2012, Patriot Rail was acquired by [SteelRiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SteelRiver&action=edit&redlink=1) Infrastructure Partners (SteelRiver).

On August 8, 2022 Patriot Rail announced that it was to acquire [Pioneer Lines](/source/Pioneer_Lines).[1]

## Holdings

Active railroad operations.[2]

- [Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway](/source/Butte%2C_Anaconda_and_Pacific_Railway)

- [Columbia and Cowlitz Railway](/source/Columbia_and_Cowlitz_Railway)

- [Decatur Junction Railway](/source/Decatur_Junction_Railway)

- [Delta Southern Railroad](/source/Delta_Southern_Railroad)

- [DeQueen and Eastern Railroad](/source/DeQueen_and_Eastern_Railroad)

- [Elkhart & Western Railroad](/source/Elkhart_%26_Western_Railroad)

- [Fort Smith Railroad](/source/Fort_Smith_Railroad)

- [Garden City Western Railway](/source/Garden_City_Western_Railway)

- [Georgia Northeastern Railroad](/source/Georgia_Northeastern_Railroad)

- [Georgia Southern Railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgia_Southern_Railway&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Gettysburg & Northern Railroad](/source/Gettysburg_%26_Northern_Railroad)

- [Golden Triangle Railroad](/source/Golden_Triangle_Railroad)

- [Indiana Southwestern Railway](/source/Indiana_Southwestern_Railway)

- [Kendallville Terminal Railway](/source/Kendallville_Terminal_Railway)

- [Keokuk Junction Railway](/source/Keokuk_Junction_Railway)

- [Kingman Terminal Railroad](/source/Kingman_Terminal_Railroad)

- [Louisiana and North West Railroad](/source/Louisiana_and_North_West_Railroad)

- [Merced County Central Valley Railroad](/source/Merced_County_Central_Valley_Railroad)

- [Michigan Southern Railroad](/source/Michigan_Southern_Railroad_(1989))

- [Mississippi Central Railroad](/source/Mississippi_Central_Railroad)

- [Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railroad](/source/Napoleon%2C_Defiance_%26_Western_Railroad)

- [Pioneer Industrial Railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pioneer_Industrial_Railway&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Plymouth & Lincoln Railroad](/source/Plymouth_%26_Lincoln_Railroad)

- [Ripley & New Albany Railroad](/source/Ripley_%26_New_Albany_Railroad)

- Sacramento Valley Railroad

- [Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway](/source/Salt_Lake%2C_Garfield_and_Western_Railway)

- [Temple and Central Texas Railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Temple_and_Central_Texas_Railway&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Tennessee Southern Railroad](/source/Tennessee_Southern_Railroad)

- [Utah Central Railway](/source/Utah_Central_Railway_(1992))

- [Vandalia Railroad](/source/Vandalia_Railroad_(1983))

- [West Belt Railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Belt_Railway&action=edit&redlink=1)

## Former holdings

- [Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad](/source/Mississippi_and_Skuna_Valley_Railroad). This line was acquired from Weyerhaeuser in 2010, but due to issues about a damaged bridge on a connecting railroad, Patriot filed for abandonment in 2011,[3] and the line has since become a [rail-to-trail](/source/Rail_to_trail) conversion.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Worrell, Carolina (8 August 2022). ["Patriot Rail to Acquire Pioneer Lines"](https://www.railwayage.com/freight/short-lines-regionals/patriot-rail-to-acquire-pioneer-lines/). [Railway Age](/source/Railway_Age).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Patriot Home"](https://patriotrail.com/services/patriot-rail-services/patriot-railroads/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Mississippi & Skuna Valley Railroad, LLC-Abandonment Exemption-in Yalobusha and Calhoun Counties, MS"](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/11/07/2011-28757/mississippi-and-skuna-valley-railroad-llc-abandonment-exemption-in-yalobusha-and-calhoun-counties-ms). Transportation Department and Surface Transportation Board, Federal Register, November 7, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad"](http://www.abandonedrails.com/mississippi-and-skuna-valley-railroad). AbandonedRails.com. Retrieved August 27, 2021.

## External links

- [http://www.patriotrail.com/](http://www.patriotrail.com/)

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