The GLOR has "sold" an additional railroad which will also become a wholy owned subsidiary of the GLOR.
The GLOR's line from Liberty Center, OH to Fort Wayne, IN has been spun off to the Ohio Western Railroad (OWRR). This railroad will assume all ownership and leases of the lines, including trackage rights between Liberty Center and the connection with the GLOR's Southern Division, and Fort Wayne, where the railroad conencts with NS and the GLOR's Fort Wayne Division.
Operations are expected to remain the same on the line.
GLOR will be "selling" 4 units for the OWRR from the GLOR Roster. These units will be GLOR GP38-2's #2024, 2027, 2032, and GP38-3 #2036.
As part of the agreement, the GLOR will maintain "free of charge" trackage rights over the length of the system.
Operations of the OWRR will commence on 8/26/2024 at 00:00.
All employees of the OWRR will be transfers from the GLOR's staff working on the Definance Subdivision previously and all labor agreements in effect for employees will be transfered to the OWRR employees for the length of the remaining labor agreements.
Ohio Western Railroad
Re: Ohio Western Railroad
The Ohio Western will see it's first regular through freight trains in a significant period of the time. As part of the GLOR's mergers with several railroads, there have been requests from LSRC for access to Chicago and Peoria. While not granting direct access, LSRC and GLOR have come to an agreement which will have GLOR operate a single (and up to 3 times per week in the future), hualage train from Saginaw to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where traffic would be added to added to either Peoria or Chicago bound trains. These trains, would be running from Saginaw to Diann to Liberty Center to Fort Wayne. The GLOR will be using trackage rights it retained over the OWRR for the final portion of the run. In addition, the GLOR may in the future also begin running their Toledo Jeep Plant to Chicago autorack trains over the line as well.
Re: Ohio Western Railroad
The Ohio Western, after inspection by both UP and BNSF will begin hosting trackage rights trains from Toledo to interchange with the respective western railroad. These will be the autorack trains from the Toledo's Jeep Plant. The trains currently run north from Toledo to Diann, taking the relatively new connector in the SW Quadrant to head south to Lima, before heading WNW from Lima to Ft. Wayne and Chicago. The trains will now proceed south from Diann to Liberty Center before heading across the OWR to Ft Wayne and on to Chicago.