The Brandon Railroad is a switching and terminal railroad that operates 17.3 miles of former

South Omaha Terminal Railway The South Omaha Terminal Railway in Omaha, Nebraska was a subsidiary of the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. Until the separate railroad company was created in July 1927, the trackage, about , was owned and operated directly by the Union Stock Ya ...

track outside of

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County, Nebraska, Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. List of ...

, United States. This railroad started out as the

Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and dissolved within a year, the company was reorganized and moved to Sout ...

in 1897. In July 1927 it became the

and then was taken over by the BRAN in 1978. The BRAN has connections to the BNSF Railway and the

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pac ...

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Nebraska railroads History of South Omaha, Nebraska Railway lines in Omaha, Nebraska Switching and terminal railroads {{Nebraska-transport-stub