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{{Infobox rail |
| railroad_name=Farmrail Corporation <br/> Farmrail System, Inc.
| image=Farmrail 8267.jpg
| image_caption=Farmrail 8267, an [[EMD GP10]], sits idle in [[Weatherford, Oklahoma]], February 18, 2017.
| marks=FMRC
| locale= [[Oklahoma]]
| gauge={{Track gauge|ussg|allk=on}}
| start_year=1981
| hq_city=[[Clinton, Oklahoma|Clinton]], [[Oklahoma]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.farmrail.com}}
}}
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'''Farmrail System, Inc.''' is an employee-owned holding company for two Class III common-carrier railroads comprising "Western Oklahoma’s Regional Railroad" based in [[Clinton, Oklahoma|Clinton]], [[Oklahoma]]. '''Farmrail Corporation''' {{reporting mark|FMRC}} has acted since 1981 as a lessee-operator for [[Oklahoma Department of Transportation]], managing an 82-mile east-west former [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad | Rock Island ]] line between Weatherford and Erick and an additional 89 miles of former Santa Fe track, Westhorn-Elmer, acquired by the State in 1992 from the [[ATSF Railway]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Farmrail (Railroad): Roster, Overview, History |url=https://www.american-rails.com/farmrail.html |website=American-Rails.com |access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>  Another wholly owned affiliate, '''Grainbelt Corporation (GNBC)''', was formed in 1987 to buy 176 contiguous north-south route-miles linking [[Enid, Oklahoma|Enid]] and [[Frederick, Oklahoma|Frederick]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Farmrail System, Inc. |url=http://www.farmrail.com/ |website=www.farmrail.com |access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>
==Operations==
'''Farmrail Corporation''' {{reporting mark|FMRC}},  operates two connected lines:
*An {{convert|82|mi|km|adj=on}} line from [[Erick, Oklahoma]], through Clinton, to [[Weatherford, Oklahoma]].
*A {{convert|104|mi|km|adj=on}} line from [[Westhorn, Oklahoma]], through Clinton, to [[Elmer, Oklahoma]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.american-rails.com/farmrail.html|title = Farmrail (Railroad): Roster, Overview, History}}</ref>
[[File:Grainbelt 8335.jpg|thumb|left|Still in Illinois Central colors, GNBC 8335 sits idle in [[Weatherford, Oklahoma]]. Built for the [[Illinois Central Railroad]] in 1953.]]
'''Grainbelt Corporation''' {{reporting mark|GNBC}}, {{convert|176|mi|km}} of lines from [[Enid, Oklahoma]], to [[Frederick, Oklahoma]], and over {{convert|59|mi|km}} of [[BNSF Railway]] trackage rights from [[Snyder, Oklahoma]], to [[Quanah, Texas]].
In addition, FMRC operates [[Finger Lakes Railway]] Corporation {{reporting mark|FGLK}} as part of a joint venture; FGLK operates 168 miles of railway in New York state.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fglkrail.com/ |title=Finger Lakes Railway - Geneva, New York - Freight and Passenger Service |access-date=2011-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406005158/http://www.fglkrail.com/ |archive-date=2008-04-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
FMRC and Grainbelt traffic includes [[wheat]], [[steel]] products, [[fertilizer]], rail cars undergoing repair, [[gypsum]] rock and associated products, oil field materials, [[cotton]], [[lumber]], feed grains and meals, and farm implements.
The FMRC lines are owned by the state of [[Oklahoma]] and were leased to FMRC in 1993.  The Grainbelt line began operations as a short-line railroad in 1987.
[[BNSF]] named Farmrail System as its “Shortline of the Year” in 2017, citing the company’s entrepreneurial spirit and diligence in attracting new customers, and specifically noting Farmrail’s replacement of 8,400 crossties and more than 10,000 tons of ballast in less than one month to revitalize a siding and capture new business.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bnsf.com/news-media/news-releases/newsrelease.page?relId=bnsf-names-farmrail-shortline-of-the-year |title= BNSF names Farmrail 'Shortline of the Year'|publisher=BNSF|accessdate=October 18, 2021}}</ref>
== Equipment ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Model
!Road number
|-
|[[EMD SW9]]
|169
|-
|[[EMD GP9]]
|280, 286, 289, 297, 316-317, 331, 1702, 3648, 6083
|-
|[[EMD GP7]]
|617, 620, 1555
|-
|[[EMD GP10]]
|1981, 8251, 8253, 8335
|-
|[[EMD GP38-2]]
|2100, 2105-2108, 2302 & 2304, 2309, 2314
|-
|[[EMD GP38]]
|2675
|-
|colspan="2"|source:<ref>[https://www.thedieselshop.us/Farm.HTML Farmrail Co. roster]</ref>
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Portal||Railways}}
*[http://www.farmrail.com/ Farmrail System official website]
*[http://www.uprr.com/customers/shortline/lines/farm.shtml Link to Union Pacific Website with FMRC Details]
{{Oklahoma railroads}}
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[[Category:Oklahoma railroads]]
[[Category:Switching and terminal railroads]]
[[Category:Spin-offs of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]]
[[Category:Railway companies established in 1981]]