SMS Rail Lines is a

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based at Pureland Industrial Park in

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. The company handles all freight car delivery to businesses located within the industrial park. It also operates lines in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and

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. Guilderland-based operations operate as SMS Rail Lines of New York, LLC . SMS maintains many locomotives built by the

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. SMS provides chemical off-loading equipment and transload facilities to enable businesses to receive rail freight traffic.

Operations

In the

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, SMS Rail Lines operates both industrial park switching operations and a county controlled rail line. *Morrisville – Serves the Penn Warner Industrial Park in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, with access to the

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Morrisville Yard Morrisville Yard is a rail yard used by New Jersey Transit rail operations for trains on its Northeast Corridor Line. It is located about two miles west of the New Jersey state capital, Trenton, in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and is accessible ...

*Pureland – Serves the

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, interchanging with Conrail Shared Assets Operations Penns Grove Secondary *Westville – Serves the Sunoco Logistics Eagle Point terminal in

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, interchanging with Conrail Shared Assets Operations. *Salem - Serves the Salem County Short Line between

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. In

, SMS Rail Lines of New York, LLC serves the Northeastern Industrial Park, interchanging with

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at Guilderland Center, NY and

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at Delanson, NY.

History

SMS Rail Lines began operating in the

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area in June 1994. In November 2006, the railroad began operations in Albany, New York. The company plans to begin passenger excursions out of

Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey Pilesgrove Township is a township in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,183, an increase of 167 (+4.2%) from the 2010 census count of 4,016, which in turn reflect ...

by the end of 2022.

Motive power

SMS runs a variety of locomotives, most being built by the Baldwin Locomotive works. SMS also owns units built by GM's Electro-Motive Diesel and GE Transportation. *ALCO **

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(1), undergoing restoration. *Baldwin: ** VO-660

diesel Diesel may refer to: * Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression * Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines * Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engi ...

(2) ** VO-1000 diesel (1) ** DS-4-4-660 diesel (1) ** DS-4-4-750 diesel (1) ** DS-4-4-1000 diesel (2) ** S-12 diesel (14) ** AS-616 diesel (3) *EMD: **SW14 diesel (1) ** SW1200RS diesel (1) **GP38-3 diesel (1) *GE: ** B23-7 diesel (4)

References

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