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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | York, Pennsylvania |
| Reporting mark | YRC |
| Locale | SoutheasternPennsylvania |
| Dates of operation | 1999– |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge |
TheYork Railway (reporting markYRC) is ashortline railroad operating 48 miles (77 km)[1] of track in and nearYork, Pennsylvania. YRC was acquired byGenesee & Wyoming in 2002, has a capacity of 286,000, and has three interchanges:CSX (Porters, Pennsylvania andHanover, Pennsylvania);East Penn Railroad (York, Pennsylvania); Norfolk Southern (York, Pennsylvania).[2]
The company was created in 1999 through a consolidation ofYorkrail, Inc. (reporting markYKR) and theMaryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (M&P), both owned by theEmons Railroad Group, and it immediately sold the property thus acquired tolimited liabilitylessor subsidiaries with the same names (Yorkrail, LLC and Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, LLC).[3]Genesee & Wyoming Inc. gained control of the company, and the other Emons properties, in 2002.
The York Railway operates two parallel main lines, extending southwest from York toCSX Transportationinterchanges. Most of the M&P's original line from York toBaltimore has been abandoned, but a short piece in York is still operated.
The M&P's current main line is an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad line that it acquired from thePenn Central Transportation Company in 1976, beginning at a connection with theNorfolk Southern Railway in York and running to a CSX connection atHanover. The Yorkrail line, running from a junction with the M&P in York to a CSX connection atPorters Sideling, PA, was opened in 1893 by theBaltimore and Harrisburg Railway (Eastern Extension), a predecessor of theWestern Maryland Railway, and sold byCSX Transportation to Yorkrail in 1989.[4]
The York Railway owns three ex-Santa FeCF7 diesels: #1500 (the last such locomotive built), 1502 and 1504 that were usually operated as a pair, and alternated to equalize operating hours.
The railroad also operates ex-CSXEMD GP16 diesels #1600, 1602, 1604 and 1606 as well as a pair of LTEX GP15-1s numbered 1414 and 1444. The 1502 and 1504 were parked for several years in a deadline between Hokes Mill Road (Route 182) and South Sumner Street in York, Pennsylvania, along withGP9 1754. In early February 2018, the railway removed a traction motor from No. 1504 and put it in No. 1606. On January 30, 2021, scrapping began on No.s 1502, 1504 and 1754, the three inoperative locomotives.
