Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad, INC. DGNO

Nature of Firm:
DGNO operates over a combination of owned and leased rail lines approximately 187 miles including industrial leads. The line extends from Trenton, TX to Garland, TX, then from Garland to Dallas via trackage rights over KCS and UP. DGNO also operates from Sherman to McKinney, from Carrollton to Murphy and from Dallas to Lake Dallas. Of the total trackage, approximately 51 miles are leased from Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), and DGNO leases 129 miles from Union Pacific. Rail is 90-112 pound. Track capacity is 263,000 pounds. (They can do 286,000 pounds; however, if the movement began to involve any volume, an increase would be required to offset additional maintenance of way costs.)

Traffic includes aggregates, agricultural and food products, lumber, paper, scrap paper, scrap metals and auto parts - about 40,000 carloads a year.

DGNO interchanges with UP at Denison for Sherman to McKinney traffic, at Mockingbird Yard for North Dallas line traffic, at Cadiz Yard for East Dallas and Garland to Greenville traffic, and Browder Yard for 505 Industrial Lead traffic (Cargill Foods and Laser Materials). DGNO interchanges with BNSF at Irving, with KCS at Dallas Yard and Greenville, and with TNER at Trenton.

At the end of 1990, all Class 1 carries in Dallas, Texas sold necessary trackage to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Property Acquisition Corporation (DARTPAC). DARTPAC appointed the DGNO as the operator of the property. The company is leasing the line between Greenville and Garland and has purchased the former MKT line (abandoned in 1987) from Greenville to Trenton.

The company is a subsidiary of RailAmerica, Inc.

Officers
Dave Eyermann
General Manager
Phone: 972-487-8180, Ext. 207

Robin Bergeron
Director Marketing &
Business Development
Phone: 972-487-8180, Ext. 204

Location
Dallas, Garland &Northeastern Railroad, INC.
425 North 5th Street
Garland, TX 75040
Phone: 972-487-8180
Fax: 972-487-7980

Revenue Requirements
Handling Carrier

Interchange Points
Interchanges with UP at Cadiz Yard in Dallas, Browder, Denison, Miller Spur and Mockingbird.

Equipment Summary
20 locomotives

Information Exchange Method
INFO Systems

Customers Served:
Acme Distribution Center - Dallas
American Iron & Metal Company - Dallas
American Mailwell Envelope - Addison
Andes Metals - Lewisville
Animal Nutrit - Dallas
Automized Products Group - Garland
Architectural Car Material - Dallas
Arrow Industries - Carrollton
BASF Corporation - Carrollton
B&B Trucking - Royce City
BICC General - Plano (formerly General Cable)
Bonus Crop Fertilizer - Melton
Boral Brick - Carrollton
Brewton Lumber Company - Caddo Mills
Brockway Standard - Garland
Browning Ferris Industries - Plano (BFI Waste of North America)
Buell Door Company - Dallas
Builders First Choice - Lewisville, Fate
Caddo Grain Company - Caddo Mills
Cameron Ashley - Garland
Cargill Foods - Dallas
Cargill Steel & Wire - Carrollton
Cedar Supply - Carrollton
Centex Lumber - Dalnor
Central Distributors - Dallas
City of Dallas Bachman Treating Plant - Dallas
CKS Packaging - Dallas
Coca Cola USA - Dallas
Coroplast - Dalnor
Continental P.E.T. - Rockwell
CTX Building Supply - Dalnor
Delta Metal Products - Dallas
Desert Elevator - Carrollton
Dura-Line - Dallas (formerly Intregal)
Eco Lab - Garland
El Dorado Chemical - McKinney
Elm Fork Water Treatment - Carrollton
Encore Wire - McKinney
Exel Logistics - Carrollton
Foamex - Dallas
Ford Motor Parts Distribution - Carrollton
Foxworth Galbraith - Carrollton, Rowlett, McKinney, Van Alystne
Frito Lay - Dallas
Furman Lumber - Garland
G. P. Plastics - Dallas
Glidden/ICI Paints - Carollton
Glynn Dodson - Royce City
Hardies Fruit - Dallas
Harry Price 7 Sons - Dallas
Homco - McKinney
Huntsman Packaging - Dallas
Ideal Sales - Dallas
Inca Metals - Lewisville
Inland Paper & Packaging - Carrollton
International paper - Carrollton
Jones Blair - Dallas
Kraft Foods USA - Garland
Landmark Brick - Murphy
Laser Materials - Dallas
Lattimore Materials - Plano
Lehigh Press - Carrollton
Liquid Sugars - Dallas
Lone Star Plastics - Garland
MacMillan Bloedel Building Materials - Carrollton
Master Fibers - Carrollton
McKinney Grain - McKinney
McKinney Lumber - McKinney
MCC Transport - Dallas
Metalwest - Garland
Metro Brick - Dalnor
Metro Wholesale Lumber - Garland
Mission City Paper - Addison
Network Distribution - Carrollton
Northeast Texas Farmers Coop - Greenville
P & E - Garland
Packaging Corporation of America - Plano, Garland (formerly Tenneco Packaging)
Payless Cashways - Lake Dallas
Petra Chemical - Dallas
Pioneer Aggregates - Garland
Plastipak Packaging, Inc. - Garland
Prime Source - Carrollton
Quebecor - Addison
Rhodes Printing - Carrollton
Richardson Lumber - Dallas
Rock Tenn Recycling - Dallas
Rock Tenn - Melton
Slaughter Industries - Garland
Smurfit Stone Container - Dallas
Southwest Molding - Dallas
Standard Fruit & Vegetable Company - Dallas
Stanley Commission Company - Dallas
Steel Boss International - Dallas
Sysco Food Services - Dal Nor
Texas Industries - Garland, Lewisville, Greenville
Texas Recycling - Dallas
Texas Star Warehouse - Dallas
Treasure Chest - Dallas
Trinity Industries - Dallas
Trussway Lumber - Dallas
Tufco Technologies - Dalnor
US Gypsum - Dallas
Valspar - Garland
Vanguard Plastics - Farmers Branch, Trinity Mills
Van Water & Rogers - Garland
Vinylex Corporation - Carrollton
Weyerhaeuser Paper - Carrollton
Weyerhaeuser Recycling - Carrollton
Whitmore Manufacturing - Rockwall
Willow Distributors, Inc. -