Railroad Name: | Decatur Junction Railway |
Locale: | Central Illinois |
Marks: | DT |
End Year: | Present |
Gauge: | (standard gauge) |
Hq City: | Assumption, Illinois, USA |
The Decatur Junction Railway is a Class III railroad which operates in the state of Illinois. It is one of several short-line railroads owned by Pioneer Railcorp.
On September 23, 1993, the Decatur Junction Railway Co. (DT) signed a lease agreement for the lease rights of two segments of track in east central Illinois from Assumption to Cisco owned by a consortium of grain dealers. The railroad's principal commodities are grain, fertilizer and plastics.
In January 2017, short-line operator OmniTrax, via subsidiary Decatur Central Railroad, took over operations of 16miles of track north of Decatur to Cisco that had previously been part of the Decatur Junction.[1] The change in operators left the Decatur Junction with a 21miles line running from Elwin, near Decatur, south to Assumption.[2]