Infrastructure grants provide benefits for entire region
Watco
customers served by three Midwest railroads will be
seeing a change in service made possible
from two grants that were awarded to the lines. The grants,
...
Watco Australia’s inaugural GrainCorp train rolls into Queensland
After nearly two years of planning, Watco Australia's first GrainCorp train was put into service. The inaugural train, consisting of two locomotives and 42 wagons loaded with chickpeas, rolled out of Mt. McLar...
35 Years of Amazing Watco Customers being served by Amazing Watco Teams
This Sunday, July 1, 2018, will mark the 35th anniversary of the first Customer ever served by a Watco Team Member. With that momentous occasion almost upon us, it is appropriate to spend a little time reflecti...
Watco adds Cincinnati, OH, Tropicana facility to switching portfolio
Back in 1995, Watco’s Charlie Sigley was excited to help bring on a new mechanical Customer. That Customer was Tropicana, and he never imagined that 22 years later that relationship would lead to Watco providin...
Kaye Lynne Webb receives the 2017 Influential Woman in Business Award
The Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce presented Watco co-founder Kaye Lynne Webb with the first ever Influential Woman in Business Award this morning, December 8. Appropriately, the ceremony took place in a re...
Successful Start to the WTPS Hamilton Marine Transfer Station
Most of what Watco moves are commodities that consumers want to purchase or use. But in New York City, Watco moves something that everyone wants to be rid of: garbage, or Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as it’s kno...
Project KCS reinvents underutilized terminal
The Project Management Team and Terminal & Port Services Team reached a milestone this summer in Dallas, Texas: They completed a new construction project with a new Customer in record time, turning an under...
Locomotive cuts ribbon at facility grand opening
A ribbon cutting by locomotive instead of scissors marked the official opening of a unique transload facility in Great Bend, Kansas, in which Watco is a partner.
A transloading facility allows cargo to be tr...
Freight rail industry sets safety record
Data released by the Federal Railroad Administration reveals great news: U.S. railroads had the lowest train accident rate on record last year.
Derailment rates, which declined 10 percent in 2016 from 2015, ...
Jacksonville begins operations of new short line
Team members are happy and Customers are pleased after a successful start-up to our first railroad in Florida.
The Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad (JXPT) officially began services on March 8 as...