The Indiana Southern Railroad (reporting markISRR) is a Class III, short line railroad operating in the United States state of Indiana. It began operations in 1992 as a RailTex property[1] and was acquired by RailAmerica in 2000. RailAmerica was itself acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in December 2012.[2]
Indiana Southern Railroad SD40-2s parked near the interchange with INRD south of Bee Hunter, IN.
Locomotive fleet
The Indiana Southern began operations with a fleet of 10 ex-CSX EMD GP40 locomotives which were rebuilt without dynamic brakes and identified as GP40-1s.
As of 2018, the ISRR operated 10 ex-BNSF EMD SD40-2 locomotives acquired from First Union Railway Equipment in 2013 after the railroad became Genesee & Wyoming property. Additionally, the railroad owns two G&W rebuilt GP40-3 locomotives, 3051 and 3052. ISRR 3051 was rebuilt from ISRR 4051, one of the original GP40-1s originally fleeted and is the only remaining original member of the fleet. Finally, ISRR operates an ex-Toledo, Peoria & Western GP40 painted in the Rail America paint scheme. It is the only remaining member of the fleet not in Genesee & Wyoming paint.[3]
Operations
The Indiana Southern's traffic comes mainly from coal and grain products, including corn and soybeans. The ISRR hauled around 70,000 carloads in 2008 and can accommodate 286,000-pound (130,000 kg) railcars.[4][2]
Just south of Indianapolis, the railroad serves transloading facility Kid Glove Services.
The railroad serves industries in Mooresville and a salt unloading facility in Martinsville. A siding between Whitaker and Gosport is regularly used for car storage; as is a small yard in Worthington on the former New York Central trackage.
The railroad supplies coal to power plants in Edwardsport and Petersburg. There are around 2 trains per week supplying the Edwardsport plant with coal and carrying byproducts from the plant.
The railroad also serves a grain elevator in Plainville and the Grain Processing Corporation in Washington.
References
^Mients, Graydon M. (2011). Indiana Railroad Lines. Indiana University Press.
^ abc"RailAmerica's Empire". Trains Magazine. Kalmbach Publishing. June 2010.
