Gloster Southern Railroad

Gloster Southern Railroad

Infobox SG rail
railroad_name=Gloster Southern Railroad
logo_filename=GLSR_logo.gif
logo_size=100
system_

map_size=250
map_caption=
marks=GLSR
locale=Gloster, MS to Slaughter, LA
start_year=1987
end_year=2002
old_gauge=
hq_city=Gloster, MS
The Gloster Southern Railroad reporting mark|GLSR is a former United States class III railroad that operated in Mississippi and Louisiana.

The GLSR began operation in 1986 and provides freight service from Gloster, Mississippi, to the Illinois Central Railroad (now Canadian National Railway - CN) interchange at Slaughter, Louisiana.

The line was owned by Georgia-Pacific (GP) which had purchased and refurbished mi to km|35 of an abandoned branch line to provide service to a GP plywood mill in Gloster. The GLSR operated two or three freight trains per week until the plant closed in December 2002. One year later, Genesee and Wyoming Inc acquired three short-line railroads from GP, however this sale did not include the GLSR.

In September 2005, GP announced that they would re-open the Gloster plywood mill however it was not known if they would continue to operate the GLSR.

On January 6, 2007 a local railfan observed a Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) train heading north through Lobdell, Louisiana. Behind the three KCS locomotives was a former GLSR CF7 locomotive which had its number boards covered with grey duct tape.

Equipment

References

* cite web
url=http://cnplus.cn.ca/IT/Shortlines/SL_Static.nsf/Shortlines/82EB4561C5C92D66862568CB00462960?OpenDocument
title=CN Short Line Partners
accessdate = 2007-05-07

* cite web
url=http://www.gp.com/center/news/news.asp?newsid=1856
title=GP To Suspend Production
accessdate = 2007-05-07

* cite web
url=http://www.gp.com/center/news/news.asp?newsid=2760
title=GP Sell Short-line railroads
accessdate = 2007-05-07

* cite web
url=http://www.gp.com/center/news/news.asp?newsid=4330
title=GP To restart two plants
accessdate = 2007-05-07


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