Progressive Rail, Inc.

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rdf:langString Progressive Rail Inc. (reporting mark PGR) is a shortline railroad and owner of several other shortlines. PGR is directly operating several separate branches in Minnesota including the Airlake Terminal Railway. Progressive Rail also acquired the Wisconsin Northern Division in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and operates as a separately-named division. They also own the Chicago Junction Railroad, Clackamas Valley Railway, the Iowa Traction Railway and Iowa Southern Railway in Iowa, the Piedmont & Northern Railroad, the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad in Illinois, the St. Paul & Pacific Northwest Railroad, and the Wisconsin Northern Railroad. Progressive Rail is also known as the Cannon Valley Railroad (reporting mark CVRC). The PGR branches are listed as follows: * Transload Industrial Park (Airlake Terminal Railway) - Lakeville, Minnesota * The "High Line" (a.k.a. Dan Patch Line) - Bloomington, Minnesota, Richfield, Minnesota, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Service begins at Auto Club Yard in Bloomington and serves a variety of industries * The "Jesse James Line" - Northfield to Lakeville, leased CP Rail trackage * Northfield to Faribault, Minnesota via leased Union Pacific trackage * Northfield to Cannon Falls, Minnesota, with service to the Great Western Industrial Park in Randolph, Minnesota. * Eagandale Industrial line (Eagan, Minnesota) via leased CP Rail trackage (former Milwaukee Road) * Santa Cruz Branch Line - Davenport to Watsonville, California (operating with the Santa Cruz, Big Trees, and Pacific Railway as a subcontractor)

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