Gateway Western Railway
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 GWWR #2037, an EMD GP38. | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Reporting mark | GWWR |
| Locale | Illinois, Missouri |
| Dates of operation | 1990–2001 |
| Predecessor | Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway |
| Successor | Kansas City Southern Railway, currently Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
| Length | 408 miles (657 km) |
The Gateway Western Railway (
History
The Gateway Western Railway began operations on January 9, 1990, after purchasing the Kansas City to St. Louis right-of-way from the bankrupt
In 1989, the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway entered bankruptcy. The
In 1997, the GWWR and its Illinois subsidiary Gateway Eastern Railway were purchased by Kansas City Southern (KCS). The KCS operated the GWWR as a subsidiary until October 1, 2001, when it transferred its controlling interest to its own parent company and officially merged the GWWR into the KCS. The Gateway Eastern, however, remained a KCS subsidiary. After the KCS was merged into Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the ownership GWWE from the KCS fell into the new company.
In 2022, during the hearings before the STB for the CP-KCS merger, Canadian National Railway (CNR), which had lost the battle against CP for the acquisition of KCS, presented a plan to acquire the GWWR line and thus create both via Springfield and via St. Louis, a new corridor between Kansas City and St. Louis with Michigan and Eastern Canada, bypassing Chicago, and which, according to the plan presented by CN, would divert 80,000 long-haul truck shipments to rail annually.[1] A few months later, CN resigned its intentions to purchase the Springfield Line in order to try to obtain trackage rights on the line, always with the same intention of creating the corridor proposed in the original plan to purchase the line filed with the STB.[2] Both the initial plan to purchase the line and the subsequent plan to acquire trackage rights included the execution of corridor improvement works, valued at more than US$250 million.[3] The STB would ultimately reject plans submitted by CN to operate on the Springfield Line.[4]
References
- ^ Stephens, Bill (February 23, 2022). "Canadian National details KCS Springfield Line improvement plans, traffic projections". Trains. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ Stephens, Bill (October 24, 2022). "CN would accept trackage rights as alternative to divestiture of KCS Springfield Line (updated)". Trains. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ Stephens, Bill (February 23, 2022). "Canadian National details KCS Springfield Line improvement plans, traffic projections". Trains. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ Luczak, Marybeth (March 24, 2023). "STB Rejects CN's Springfield Line Bid". Railway Age. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- (February 2002), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, Trains Magazine, p. 17.
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