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Racine County has an excellent rail network that includes service from Union Pacific, CP Rail Service, and the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. Amtrak also serves the area with passenger and commuter rail between Milwaukee and Chicago.
AMTRAK
The Hiawatha Line runs fourteen trains daily from Chicago through Racine County and on to Milwaukee. At the Chicago station, passengers can connect to over 500 other destinations across North America.
Union Pacific Railway
The railroad has one of the most diversified commodity mixes in the industry, including chemicals, coal, food and food products, forest products, grain and grain products, intermodal, metals and minerals, and automobiles and parts.
Union Pacific's largest single customer is APL Limited, a steamship company that operates in the Pacific. Second is General Motors, followed by an assortment of chemical companies and utilities.
The railroad is the nation's largest hauler of chemicals, much of which originates along the Gulf Coast near Houston, Texas. Union Pacific is also one of the largest intermodal carriers – that is the transport of truck trailers and containers.
Having access to the coal-rich Powder River Basin in Wyoming and coal fields in Illinois, Colorado and Utah, the railroad moves more than 250 million tons of coal annually. It's one of Union Pacific's fastest-growing business areas. The company is investing millions of dollars annually to add capacity to handle coal traffic, including new locomotives, and new double and triple track main lines. Although Union Pacific Railroad's primary role is transporting freight, it also runs a substantial commuter train operation in Chicago.
Canadian Pacific RailwayWeb
To capitalize on its refocusing efforts CPR expanded its rail network in 1990, taking full control of the Soo Line in the U.S. Midwest – a company it had a majority interest in since the 1890s. The Soo Line had already absorbed the Milwaukee Road in 1985. Three years before, in 1982, the Soo Line bought the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern (MNS). In 1991, CPR bought the bankrupt Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H) giving it access to ports in the U.S. Northeast.
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (WSOR) connects within the state with all the western Class One railroads – Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific. With direct access to Chicago, WSOR connects with the eastern Class One’s – CSX and Norfolk Southern. In addition to the Belt Railway in Chicago, WSOR also has access to harbor facilities in Prairie du Chien. WSOR has branch offices in Janesville, Madison and Horicon.
WSOR operates on former Milwaukee Road and Chicago & North Western tracks that were earmarked for abandonment in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These tracks are now owned and managed cooperatively by the State of Wisconsin and 14 counties. WSOR has a 50-year operating agreement with the State and the counties to provide freight rail service on the 600+ mile publicly-owned railroad system. Since its inception in 1980, WSOR has quadrupled the freight business served on the lines by their previous owners, handling over 50,000 carloads in 2005. WSOR expects to handle close to 73,000 carloads by the year 2010. Over 200 people are employed by WSOR. |
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Amtrak’s Hiawatha line now offer service to Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport. There are seven roundtrips a day (six on Sunday) so you can have an easy trip from Racine County, Milwaukee, or Chicago to catch a train to your flight.
Union Pacific Railroad is an operating subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation. It is the largest railroad in North America, operating in the western two-thirds of the United States. The railroad serves 23 states, linking every major West Coast and Gulf Coast port and provides service to the east through its four major gateways in Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans. Additionally, Union Pacific operates key north/south corridors and is the only railroad to serve all six gateways to Mexico. UP also interchanges traffic with the Canadian rail systems.
For almost 120 years Canadian Pacific Railway has been part of the fabric of this great nation. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) is a Class 1 North American railway providing freight transportation services over a 14,000-mile network in Canada and the U.S. Our high density network serves virtually every major sector and ships commodities like grain, coal, lumber and potash as well as cars, agricultural equipment, home electronics, food and furniture. 
The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. is a privately owned & managed regional railroad company operating in the southern half of the State of Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Wisconsin and Southern operates over 600 miles of branch and mainline track traversing a total of 20 counties in Wisconsin and Illinois. The Wisconsin and Southern Railroad is Wisconsin’s Third Largest Railroad. 
