GLOR will be spinning off another operation to a subsidiary company on 1-1-2025. The Delta Terminal Railroad Company will take over the switching operations in an around Delta, OH.
GLOR was previously providing switching service to all customers with the exception of Gerald Grain Center, which NS was servicing. Traffic was interchanged with NS at the Delta Yards.
Effective 1-1-2025, The DTRC will assume all switching operations for customers located in Delta, including the Blue Scope Complex, Gerald Grain, Worthington, The GLOR's Car shops, Fulton County Processing, and Nova Steel Structural Tube. DTRC will also be responsible for the building up and breaking down of all GLOR traffic to and from Delta Yard, as well as trains for NS into and out of Delta.
As part of the switching agreement, GLOR will be purchasing the locomotives they have been using to switch the facilities.
MVPX #1201 SW1200RS
MVPX #1202 SW1200RS
MVPX #1203 SW1200
MVPX #1204 SW7RM
GMTX #702 SW8
RTEX #8138 ,SW1200RS lettered for Metal X
WS-12, Homebuilt locomotive
The locomotives will retain their current number and paint scheme as this time, as GLOR management has no desire to repaint these locomotives into a new paint scheme given their role as industrial switchers. They will however be given DTRC reporting marks to indicate the new ownership.
In addition, GLOR will be selling a set of additional locomotives to the DTRC to operate the GLOR Yard and switching customers off the GLOR mainline. These locomotives, unlike the other DTRC locomotives, will be re-lettered into the DTRC's version of the GLOR paint scheme. The units to be sold will be from the GLOR roster and retain their previous number.
DTRC #2020 GP38-2
DTRC #414 GP40M-2
DTRC #4004 SD40-2
DTRC #4022 SD40-2
Operations on the line will consist of 3 shifts, DEL-1, DEL-2 and DEL-3. Additionally, DEL-4 will be an extra crew which may work any shift at any location across the complexes. Any shift may complete any work at any point across the system.
As part of this agreement, NS has granted DTRC trackage rights as needed to provide service. NS will continue to run a local from Swanton to Delta and return to interchange cars with the DTRC as well as running grain trains to and from Gerald Grain Center, which DTRC crews will load on the loop track. DTRC crews will also, per the previous agreement continue to provide service to the other customers within Delta proper, including the small grain elevator and fertilizer dealer and Industrial Rapair and Manufacturing, who recently reconnected their spur to the mainline. To provide service to these customers, NS had previously granted GLOR crews trackage rights to the US20A bridge.
Interchange between the DTRC and NS will continue to occur in the yard on the north side of the NS mainline tracks.
GLOR trains being switched by DTRC crews will be left on the GLOR main, with DTRC crews breaking down and building trains on the GLOR main and the GLOR yard on the south side of the NS Mainline.
Primary Interchange with DTRC will continue to be NS in Delta, however the DTRC / GLOR connection will allow for traffic to be interchanged with all Class 1 railroads in north America, either directly via the GLOR connections or via intermediate switching companies like IHP or BRC.
Delta Terminal Railroad Company
Re: Delta Terminal Railroad Company
One additional change caused by the creation of the DTRC will be the reinstatement of Delta as an interchange location between the GLOR and NS. While a few cars have been interchanged on occasion between the GLOR and NS in Delta, these have normally been cars into and out of the GLOR car shops in Delta. The DTRC will now handle cars from the GLOR to NS, where they will be taken from Delta to Swanton to Airline Yard and then on to Bellevue, Elkhart or elsewhere on the NS system.