Mahoning Valley Railway (MVRY) is a

short-line railroad A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the former, railroads are ...

Mahoning County, Ohio Mahoning County is located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 228,614. Its county seat and largest city is Youngstown, Ohio, Youngstown. The county is List of Ohio county name etymolo ...

, United States, owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It has an interchange with

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

at its east end. The west end is Youngstown Belt Railroad which is also owned by Genesee & Wyoming. This services

Youngstown, Ohio Youngstown is a city in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Ohio, 11th-most populous city in Ohio with a population of 60,068 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Mahoning ...

area for its

steel mill A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-fini ...

s. The line connects

Struthers, Ohio Struthers is a city in eastern Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, along the Mahoning River. The population was 10,063 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located directly southeast of Youngstown, Ohio, Youngstown, it is a suburb in ...

with Youngstown. The company was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in 2008 as part of its purchase of the

Ohio Central Railroad System The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming. Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio, the system operates of track divided among 10 subsidiary ...

. In March 2020, MVRY purchased

Ohi-Rail Corporation Ohi-Rail Corporation was a short line railroad that ran from Minerva, Ohio to Hopedale, Ohio, United States, with the reporting mark "OHIC". Interchanges were with Columbus and Ohio River Railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Wheeling and L ...

's lines in Eastern Ohio and also took over the lease of the lines which Ohi-Rail used to lease from the State of Ohio, thereby taking over all of Ohi-Rail's freight operations. As of 2024, it operates of rail, all in Ohio. It interchanges with several railroads: *

Columbus and Ohio River Railroad The Columbus & Ohio River Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. state of Ohio owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The main line, formerly part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Panhandle," was acquired from Conrail in 1992. It begins in Columbus along ...

at Hopedale, OH *

CSX CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Railroad classes, Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of trac ...

at Ohio Junction, OH * Norfolk Southern at Struthers and

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, OH * Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway at Minerva Junction, OH * Youngstown Belt Railroad at Youngstown, OH * Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad at Youngstown, OH

References

External links

Mahoning Valley Railway official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
Ohio railroads Genesee & Wyoming Transportation in Mahoning County, Ohio {{US-rail-company-stub