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5 unusual facts about OmniTRAX


Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway

In May 1991, the Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway's assets were sold to the Council Bluffs Railway, a subsidiary of OmniTRAX.

It operated from August 1989 until May 1991, when it was sold to the Council Bluffs Railway, an OmniTRAX subsidiary.

Council Bluffs Railway

A subsidiary of OmniTRAX, the Council Bluffs Railway began operations in May 1991 when it took over the 30-mile terminal switching operations of the former Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway, which was a subsidiary of National Railway Systems and operated that trackage from 1989 to 1991.

OmniTRAX

The President of OmniTRAX Canada, since August 2013, is the former Canadian politician Merv Tweed.

OmniTRAX was implicated in the scandal of the BC Legislature Raids, which led to the conviction of Dave Basi and Bob Virk, ministerial aides to Gary Collins and Janet Reid, respectively.


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Manufacturers' Junction Railway

In May 1986, the company was sold to the Chicago West Pullman Transportation Corporation (a subsidiary of OmniTRAX) from its original owner, AT&T Technologies.


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