R.J. Corman Railroad Group
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| Private | |
| Industry | Rail transport |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Richard J. Corman |
| Headquarters | Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States |
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Area served
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United States |
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Key people
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Craig King (President) |
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| Revenue |
 US$ 300 million (FY 2011) |
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Number of employees
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Approx. 1400+ |
| Website | www |
R.J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC is a privately held railroad holding company with its corporate headquarters located in Nicholasville, KY. It was owned by Richard J. Corman, who established the company in 1973, and ran it until his death on August 23, 2013. The company owns short-line railroad lines in ten states (Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia) and offers other railroad, warehousing and aviation services throughout the United States.
R.J. Corman Railroad Group was founded in 1973 by Richard J. Corman.
R.J. Corman's passenger train depot was built in 1860, and is located in Bardstown, Kentucky. By 1953, the depot shut down due to the end of the passenger train era. In 1992, the depot was refurnished and reopened for the R.J. Corman dinner train, and once again serves many passengers each year.
Some of R.J. Corman's lines have undergone major rehabilitation with the help of local and state governments. R.J. Corman began its operations on the original lines in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania in 1987, and acquired/rehabilitated many lines in the 1990s. They've reopened many Railbanked lines, and in Pennsylvania, they began an attempt in 2008 to reopen a fully abandoned non-railbanked corridor, though no decision has yet been made. It is to serve a new industrial park, landfill, and quarry.
R.J. Corman Railroad Group announced on June 18, 2009, that it had acquired the assets of Railpower Technologies Corp, and its U.S. subsidiary, Railpower Hybrid Technologies.
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