Railroad Name: | Point Comfort and Northern Railway |
Marks: | PCN |
Locale: | Texas |
Start Year: | 1948 |
End Year: | present |
Hq City: | Lolita, Texas |
Length: | 14miles |
The Point Comfort and Northern Railway is a Class III railroad operating in the U.S. state of Texas. The railroad operates over 14miles[1] of track between Point Comfort, Texas, (at the Port of Port Lavaca - Point Comfort) and Lolita, Texas, where the railroad transfers cars with Union Pacific.
PCN was purchased by the holding company RailAmerica in 2005; RailAmerica in turn was purchased by Genesee & Wyoming.
The railroad's traffic largely comes from aluminum products from Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals as well as plastics.
PCN hauled around 12,500 carloads in 2008.[1]