Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad
Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad is a freight railroad running from Girard, Alabama, to Mahrt, Alabama and has shared trackage rights with the Norfolk Southern to use the track between NS Columbus yard in Columbus, Georgia and Girard, AL. This track runs concurrent with 9th St. in downtown Columbus and is shared as part of the designated yard limits for Columbus Yard. CHH interchanges with the Norfolk Southern at Columbus Yard. Locomotives are kept at the yard and crew office for Georgia Southwestern Railroad yard in Columbus. (Sister railroad of the parent company, Genesee & Wyoming) Genesee & Wyoming , Inc. acquired this railroad in 2012 from the Norfolk Southern as part of an operations agreement for the daily switching operations of the MeadWestVaco paper mill in Mahrt. The Columbus and Chattahoochee has two trains daily that work the line, as well as a 24-hour rotation of crews maintaining the Marshalling yard in Mahrt for the paper mill. Commodities handled by the Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad include paper products, fuel oil, carbon black, aggregate minerals, scrap iron and bricks. Originally, there were only two locomotives on the roster for Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad, the CHH 3348 and 3349. (EMD  SD40-2s) The other 4-axle power provided were rostered to other G&W companies and have been rotated between sister companies as the demand allows.