Additionally, the principals of Rio Grande Pacific Corporation are actively involved on a continuing basis in a variety of other short line properties in a consultant capacity. The firm provides professional services including expert witness work, operating and maintenance audits, training of operating personnel, railroad bankruptcy re-structurings and extensive rules and practices examinations, and locomotive engineer training and certification. Shipments are predominately timber and forest products, agricultural products, and chemical. Shipments are predominately grain and agricultural products, scrap iron, and finished metal products. It is a 24 mile property just outside New Orleans, Louisiana.
Shipments are predominately petroleum, petroleum additives and grain.
Shipments are predominately chemicals, grain and agricultural products. This subsidiary was formed specifically to meet the in-plant switching requirements of North American industry. Switchmaster Corporation of America was formed to provide safe, reliable and customer oriented industrial switching services for shippers located on our railroad properties, and for third party situations where deemed appropriate. We have been involved with numerous civil engineering and consulting assignments for public and private projects across North and South America, Africa and Europe. The firm was founded in an effort to bring professional management and seasoned experience to these type projects, particularly with the changing climate and downsizing of corporate railroad staffs in the deregulated environment.