East Penn Railroad leases Pa. industrial track

Regional Rail, LLC, on Friday said it has entered into an agreement with Norfolk Southern Corp. to lease and operate the Class I railroad’s York Industrial Track, which runs from York, Pa., to Stony Brook, Pa. Regional Rail said the line will be operated as part of its subsidiary East Penn Railroad, LLC, which serves southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Kennett Square, Pa.-based Regional Rail filed the notice of exemption with the Surface Transportation Board last week and plans to initiate service on the line on August 1.

“This addition to our operations further illustrates our solid relationship with NS which has resulted from our mutually beneficial carload growth and quality service on our existing NS served lines,” said Regional Rail President and CEO Bob Parker.

Regional Rail Vice President Al Sauer said, “The presence of a number of existing customers, along with the opportunity to reactivate rail service to other customers and the ability to provide transload services to non rail served facilities gives us an established base from which to grow and expand the carload traffic on the York Line.”

Regional Rail LLC also is the parent company of the Middletown & New Jersey Railroad, LLC which owns and/or operates four rail lines in southeastern New York State.