Patriot Rail Corporation is a holding company

Holding company

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 for a number of shortline railroads across the United States

United States

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, including one contract operation in North Carolina

North Carolina

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. The company was started in 2006 by RailAmerica

RailAmerica

RailAmerica, Inc., based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a holding company of a number of short-line railroads and regional railroads in the United States and Canada....

 co-founder Gary Marino and is headquartered at Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...

. In January, 2011, Patriot Rail purchased the railroads of the Weyerhaeuser Company which effectively doubled the number of Patriot Rail holdings.

Holdings

• Tennessee Southern Railroad
  Tennessee Southern Railroad
  The Tennessee Southern Railroad began operations in 1988 and currently operates in middle Tennessee and northwestern Alabama. The main line consists of and the total track has . TSRR is owned by Patriot Rail Corporation...
  
  
• Utah Central Railway
  Utah Central Railway (1992)
  The Utah Central Railway is a shortline railroad serving Ogden, Utah and surrounding areas. It interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad , as well as with BNSF Railway trains running over the UP via trackage rights. The company began operations in 1992 as a private switching railroad, and...
  
  
• Sacramento Valley Railroad
• Louisiana and North West Railroad
  Louisiana and North West Railroad
  The Louisiana and Northwest Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Homer, Louisiana.LNW operates a line in Arkansas and Louisiana from McNeil, Arkansas , to Gibsland, Louisiana...
  
  
• Temple and Central Texas Railway
• Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway
  Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway
  The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway is a short line railroad in the U.S. state of Montana which was founded in 1892. It was financed by the interests behind the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and operated primarily to carry copper ore from the mines at Butte, Montana to the smelters at...
  
  

Note: Holding list is prior to Weyerhaeuser acquisitions
The Weyerhaeuser acquisitions are--

• DeQueen and Eastern Railroad
• Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern railroad
• Columbia and Cowlitz Railway
  Columbia and Cowlitz Railway
  The Columbia and Cowlitz Railway , is a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company, and is headquartered in Longview, Washington; the railroad serves an route from the Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Longview to the junction just outside the city limits of Kelso...
  
  
• Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad
• Golden Triangle Railroad
  Golden Triangle Railroad
  The Golden Triangle Railroad is a railway in central Mississippi, totalling in length. The GTRA interchanges with the Kansas City Southern Railway at Columbus, Mississippi, and with Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern via trackage rights over the KCS.The GTRA serves a Weyerhaeuser...
  
  
• Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad
  Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad
  The Mississippi & Skuna Valley Railroad was incorporated on June 1st, 1925 and extends 21 miles from a connection with the Grenada Railway at Bruce Junction in Coffeeville, MS to serve a hardwood mill in Bruce, MS....