Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

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The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (AAR reporting marks TRRA) is a Class III railroad owned by railroads in St. Louis, Missouri in a Union station agreement to handle traffic through its metropolitan area.

It was founded in 1889 by:

• Missouri Pacific Railroad
• St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company
• Wabash Railroad
• Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
• Louisville and Nashville Railroad
• Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

Its current owners are:

• Union Pacific
• BNSF
• CSX Transportation
• Canadian National
• Norfolk Southern

The Association built the Union Station (St. Louis). It owns the Merchants Bridge and MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis), the latter which it received in 1989 in a swap with the City of St. Louis in exchange of title for the Eads Bridge.

In the early years the Association was at odds with the St. Louis Merchants Exchange. The Exchange built the Eads Bridge but lost control to the Terminal Railroad. The Exchange then built the Merchants Bridge to keep the Terminal Railroad from having a monopoly. The Exchange was to lose control of that bridge also to the Terminal Railroad.

[edit] Awards and recognition

For four consecutive years beginning in 2001, TRRA was the recipient of the Gold E. H. Harriman Award for safety in the Switching and Terminal railroad class.^[1]

[edit] References

• Trainweb profile

[edit] External links

• Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
• Mainline track schematics (PDF)

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