Northern Lines Railway
   
Northern Lines was formed in 2004 to operate BNSF trackage in central Minnesota. NLR serves outstanding distribution facilities and connects daily witn BNSF's mainline network.
NLR is a winner of the "BNSF Short Line Achievement Award"
Northern Lines Railroad Map


Location
Central Minnesota

Headquarters
2015 Sixth Street North
St. Cloud, MN 56303
Telephone: (320) 253-8130
Fax: (320) 253-5282

President – Dan Rickel

Employees – 8

Operations Began – 2004



Mileage
25 Operated and maintained
3 Jointly used with other freight railroads
 
Equipment
2 Locomotives
 
Primary Commodities Handled
Aggregates, building products, chemicals, coal, food products, lumber, manufactured goods, paper, scrap, steel and stone

Major Customers
Borgert Stone, Cold Spring Granite, Electrolux, Maiers Transport, Phillips Recycling, American Iron, Knife River Corp., Manions Wholesale, Mathew Hall Lumber, Quebecor World, Martin Marietta, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.

Connecting Railroads
BNSF

Annual Volume
10,000 Carloads

Transload Facilities
Team track and ground storage – St. Cloud, MN – Cold Spring, MN – Waite Park, MN

Maiers Transport & Warehouse – warehouse and transload facilities at St. Cloud, MN


     
This page last updated on April 7, 2008