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Keokuk Junction Railway
No. 1752 in black and yellow "Peoria & Western" livery
Overview
HeadquartersPeoria County, Illinois; Keokuk, Iowa[1]
Reporting markKJRY
LocaleCentral and western Illinois; Keokuk, Iowa
Dates of operationMay 1980 (1980-05) (current company)–
Technical
Track gaugeStandard gauge
Length126 miles (203 km) operated + 15.5 miles (24.9 km) trackage rights[2]
Other
Websitepioneerlines.com/keokuk-junction-railway-company-kjry/

The Keokuk Junction Railway Co. (reporting mark KJRY), is a Class III railroad in the U.S. states of Illinois and Iowa.[3] It is a subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp.[2]

History[edit]

The present company was incorporated in 1980 as the Keokuk Northern Real Estate Co.,[4] formed in May 1980 to purchase 4.5 miles (7.2 km) of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad yard track in Keokuk, Iowa.[5] The KJRY obtained that trackage in 1981.[1] In December 1986, the KJRY bought, from the Santa Fe Railway, 33.5 miles (53.9 km) of trackage consisting of the LaHarpe line and Warsaw line from Keokuk/Warsaw, Illinois to LaHarpe, Illinois,[1][5] formerly owned by the Toledo, Peoria and Western.[4]

Pioneer Railcorp filed with the Surface Transportation Board to acquire 66.62% of KNRECO, Inc. (the KJRY) from majority shareholder John Warfield,[6] and purchased KNRECO in March 1996.[5]

The KJRY bought 12.1 miles (19.5 km) from LaHarpe to Lomax, Illinois plus assigned trackage rights from Lomax to Fort Madison, Iowa in December 2011; and 76 miles (122 km) from the Toledo, Peoria and Western from LaHarpe to Peoria, Illinois in February 2005.[1][5]

Brookhaven Rail Partners acquired Pioneer Rail corporation on July 31, 2019.[7]

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