Stewart Southern Railway is a

short line railway Railroad classes are the system by which freight railroads are designated in the United States. Railroads are assigned to Class I, II or III according to annual revenue criteria originally set by the Surface Transportation Board in 1992. With a ...

located in the South East region of

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, with its headquarters located in the community of Fillmore. The line runs between Regina and Stoughton on the former

Canadian Pacific The Canadian Pacific Railway () , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canadian Pacific Ka ...

line known as the Tyvan Subdivision. The Tyvan Sub parallels

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for most of its length. The railway handles commodities such as peas, lentils, and potash with Seaboard being the primary Customer. In 2011 the main shipper has changed from grain cars to oil tankers, topping out just before the last bust in the oil field of 100 cars per day to Regina. Purely Canadian, a grain facility has built on the line at LaJord, bringing a multimillion-dollar investment into the area and has become the largest shipper on the line as of 2019-2020 November 1, 2018,

Watco Watco Companies, L.L.C. (Watco) Watco is an American transportation and logistics company based in Pittsburg, Kansas. The company’s core services are freight transportation, material handling and storage, logistics, railcar repair and maintena ...

began operating and managing all aspects of the railroad. In May 2020 Watco passed the management and operations to Xpert Rail Consulting.

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