The Everett Railroad Company

The Everett Railroad Company
424 2nd Avenue
Duncansville, PA 16635
www.everettrailroad.com

The Everett Railroad is a 23-mile Class III Common Carrier freight railroad servicing Blair County’s I-99 corridor, including the communities of Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Roaring Spring, Martinsburg, and Claysburg. We are a handling-line carrier for Norfolk Southern, offering customers seamless and competitive rates and flexible service.

In August 1984, at Claysburg, PA, Everett Railroad GE 80-Ton #4 made a delivery of bauxite ore to the General Refractories Company. That train marked the rebirth of a railroad that had been dormant since 1982. In those two years, the railroad had been abandoned, sold, and moved from its home in Everett, PA, where it had served its namesake community since 1954.

In 1985, the Everett Railroad leased the nearby Morrisons Cove Railroad, a seven-mile line which served the fertile “Cove” region of Blair County including the communities of Roaring Spring, Martinsburg, and Curryville. With this expansion, the Everett Railroad became a key link in local agriculture and dairy production, serving three feed mills as well as a major paper converter. Increased traffic led to the purchase of two EMD SW9s from Conrail: 8933 and 8990.

Expansion occurred again in 1995 with the incorporation of a sister company, the Hollidaysburg & Roaring Spring Railroad (H&RS) which acquired ten miles of Conrail’s “Cove Secondary” track. This purchase tied together the Everett Railroad and Morrisons Cove Railroad operations and created what is today a twenty-three-mile rail network. Now, the railroad typically operates scheduled trains three days per week, with special service available on request. Interchange for the Everett Railroad is with Norfolk Southern at Hollidaysburg, PA.

Over the years, Everett’s excursions have taken on a new life, running from March through December each year with a ridership of nearly 35,000 in 2023.