Kyle Railroad

thumb|260x260px|KYLE 1757 undergoes repair at the Eastern Alabama Railway in Sylacauga, Alabama.
The Kyle Railroad (Reporting Mark: KYLE) is a regional railroad line that runs from North Central Kansas into Eastern Colorado. It is based in Phillipsburg, Kansas and runs on 556 miles (895 km) track, mostly the former Rock Island Railroad Chicago to Denver main line. The Kyle was owned by RailAmerica from 2002 to 2012. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. bought RailAmerica in late 2012.
==History==
The Kyle Railroad was formed for the 1982 northern Kansas harvest season by the Willis B. Kyle Organization, which consisted of several railroad properties, including the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway, the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad. Included was about 243 miles (391 km) of trackage from Belleville, KS to Limon, CO, with trackage rights over the Cadillac and Lake City Railroad from Limon, CO to Colorado Springs, CO. Officially, on September 16, 1980, The Kyle Railroad signed with the MSPA (Mid-States Port Authority) a contract for the Hallam, NE to Limon, CO and Belleville, KS to Clay Center, KS line, as well as 90 miles (140 km) of trackage rights over the Union Pacific Railroad from Limon, CO to Denver, CO, totaling 455 miles (732 km). The Kyle Railroad acted as the MSPA's operator of these lines.
Recently the Kyle Railroad bought the tracks on which it operates from the MSPA.
Power for the trains initially consisted of former Burlington Northern Railroad ALCO Century 425s, most tracing their heritage to the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. Kyle Railroad migrated to General Electric U30C and U33C power by the mid-2000s. After RailAmerica purchased Kyle, the legacy GE power was dropped in favor of EMD power, including former Burlington Northern SD40-2s and Southern Pacific SD40T-2s. The railroad also used to have an ex-Southern Pacific EMD SD45T-2, # 9362. With the purchase by Genesee and Wyoming, a number of MK5000C's provided by the Utah Railway (a fellow subsidiary of Genessee & Wyoming) now operate on the Kyle Railroad.
==Traffic==
The railroad handles mostly agricultural commodities, although limited amounts of construction materials are carried. KYLE transported around 20,000 carloads in 2000.
== Locomotives ==
This is a list of locomotives that the Kyle Railroad operates.https://www.thedieselshop.us/Kyle.HTML
Photograph	Unit 	Build date 	Model 	Manufacturer 	Former Nos.	Status
Frameless 	#101 	January 1954 	EMD GP9R 	Electro-Motive Division	SD&AE #101
MKCX #101
#SQVR 101
WRIX 1761	
Frameless 	#104 	July 1957 	EMD GP9R 	Electro-Motive Division	SD&AE 104
SQVR 1764	
Frameless 	803 	February 1967	EMD GP40 	Electro-Motive Division	CSX #6720
SBD #6720
SCL #1565
SAL #650	
Frameless 	804 	January 1970 	EMD GP40 	Electro-Motive Division	CSX #6746
SBD #6746
SCL #1591	
Frameless 	#1125 	October 1966 	EMD SW1000	Electro-Motive Division	DRGW #146 	
150x150px 	#1757 	May 1954 	EMD GP9 	Electro-Motive Division	T&NO #406 	
Frameless 	#2128 	February 1969	EMD GP38-3	Electro-Motive Division	AZER #3892
AZCR #3801
B&O #3705	
 	B&P #3319	August 1978 	EMD SD40-2	Electro-Motive Division	AZER #3471
RCPE #6444
ICE #6444
UP #3812
MKT #603	
Frameless 	B&P #3333	1970 	EMD SD40-3	Electro-Motive Division	QGRY #6076
GCFX #6076
CN #5148	
== References ==
==External links==
*Kyle Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
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