Founded in 1913, the San Luis Central Railroad was founded to haul sugar beet

Sugar beet

Sugar beet, a cultivated plant of Beta vulgaris, is a plant whose tuber contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar production. Sugar beets and other B...

s from grower to processor. The railroad was acquired in 1969 by the Pea Vine Corporation and today operates freight traffic through a connection with the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad

San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad

The San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad is a class III railroad operating in Colorado.The SLRG began operations in 2003 using 154 miles of former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks on three lines radiating from Alamosa, Colorado. The SLRG operates an eclectic variety of equipment from the...

 hauling mainly grain, potatoes and fertilizer. SLC is also a railcar owner, mostly refrigerator cars and boxcars. The railroad is 13 miles long located between Sugar Junction (Monte Vista, Colorado) and Center Colorado. The railroad owns two locomotives Electro Motive Division SW-8 number 70 and General Electric 70 ton locomotive number 71. The company is owned by Ed Burkhardt's Rail World, Inc.

Rail World, Inc.

Rail World, Inc. is a rail transport holding company. Its specialties include railway management, consulting, investment, privatizations, and restructurings. Its purpose is to promote rail industry privatization by bringing together government bodies wishing to sell their stakes with investment...