West Texas & Lubbock Railroad Company Inc. WTLR

Nature of Firm:

The West Texas and Lubbock Railroad operates freight service from a connection with the BNSF railroad at Lubbock, TX to Seagraves, 64 miles. A branch line operates from Doud to Whiteface, 39.8 miles. A total of 104 miles are operated. Rail is 85/90 pound. Track capacity is 286,000 pounds. Communities currently served by WTLR include Doud, Ropesville, Brownfield, Wellman, Seagraves, Hurlwood, Levelland and Whiteface. In June of 2000 the WTLR sold a 6.5 mile corridor of land to the State of Texas for use in constructing the East-West freeway connecting downtown Lubbock and Texas Tech University to the outer beltway in Lubbock, Texas.

Traffic includes saltcake, chemicals, molten sulfur, grain, cotton, cottonseed oil, farm equipment, and lumber - approximately 4,000 carloads a year.

The line was built by the South Plains and Santa Fe and opened into Seagraves on July 1, 1918. The branch to Whiteface opened on December 1, 1925. The company was leased to Panhandle and Santa Fe in January, 1931. Santa Fe turned over the line to the Seagraves, Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad on April 2, 1990. The West Texas and Lubbock Railroad acquired it on November 1, 1995.

The company is a subsidiary of RailAmerica, Inc.

Officers
Richard Thull
General Manager
Phone: 806-785-8668
Fax: 806-785-8668

Location
WEST TEXAS & LUBBOCK RAILROAD COMPANY INC.
6010 Brownfield Highway
Lubbock, TX 79407-3726
Phone: 806-785-8668
Fax: 806-785-0515

Revenue Requirements
Handling Carrier

Interchange Points
No interchange with UP - cars go to BNSF.

Equipment Summary
None

Information Exchange Method
RMI

Customers Served
Frontier Fertilizer - Hurlwood
Southern Cotton Oil - Levelland
Cotton Compresses - Levelland, Brownfield, Seagraves
Beseda Fertilizer - Whiteface
Goodpasture - Brownfield
Cooper Natural Resources - Brownfield
Farmers Coop - Brownfield
UAP Chemicals - Brownfield
Depoyster Iron & Metals - Brownfield
B & E Implement - Brownfield
Frontier Fertilizer - Seagraves
Agro Products - Seagraves
West Texas Agriplex - Seagraves
Cooper Natural Resources - Seagraves
Phillips 66 - Seagraves
Reagent Chemicals - Seagraves