Update
CSX Shedding Florida Panhandle Trackage CSX plans to sell 373 miles of track in the Florida Panhandle to a new Class III railroad backed by an investment group
14 Railway Age // December 2018
headed by veteran short line entrepreneur Gary Marino. The sale was revealed in a filing by the
Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad to the Surface Transportation Board Nov. 6. No terms were disclosed in the acquisition by International Rail Partners of Boca Raton, Fla., through subsidiary RailUSA. The investment group is head by Chairman, CEO and Managing Partner Gary Marino, who co-founded and served as head of short line operator RailAmerica for 20 years, and later founded Patriot Rail, another short line investor. The deal includes CSX’s Tallahassee Subdivision between Baldwin and Chattahoochee, the P&A Subdivision between Chattahoochee and Pensacola, and portions of the Bainbridge Subdivision between Tallahassee and Attapulgus, Ga. The Florida Gulf & Atlantic said it has posted the sale notice to eight CSX unions at nine locations. It plans to hire 37 employees to operate the new railroad. Genesee & Wyoming acquired RailAmerica in 2012 for approximately $1.4 billion. The latter had acquired short line holding company RailTex in 2000.
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