Rio Valley Switching Company RVSC

Nature of Firm:

RVSC operates freight service from a connection with UP at Harlingen to a connection with Border Pacific at Mission, TX, 41 miles. A branch runs from Mission to Hidalgo, TX, 8.1 miles. Another branch which runs from McAllen to Edinburg, TX (approximately 12.8 miles) was leased from UP in September, 1997.

Rail is 90 pound. Track capacity is 286,000 pounds.

Traffic includes paper, food and agricultural products - about 8,000 cars a year.

This former Missouri Pacific branch line was leased to Rio Valley Railroad on March 7, 1993. The line is operated by Rio Valley Switching Company.

The company is affiliated with Ironhorse Resources.

Officers
Roy Rodriguez
General Manager
Phone: 956-971-9111
Fax: 956-971-9114

Greg Cundiff
President
Ironhorse Resources

Location
Rio Valley Switching Company 101 N. 21st Street McAllen, TX 78501 Phone: 956-971-9111
Fax: 956-971-9114

Revenue Requirements
Handling Carrier

Interchange Points
Harlingen, TX

Equipment Summary
6 locomotives

Information Exchange Method
RMI

Customers Served
A R Mexican Clay Products
Alamo Enterprises
Alimentos De Veracruz
Am Ag
Americana Juice Imports
Angelo Iron & Metal
Anglo Iron & Metal
Avi-Gran
Azteca Milling
B F I Valley Recyclery
Barbee Neuhaus Implements
Baroid Drilling Fluid
Bartlett Grain Elevator
Bee Agricultural Co
Bluebonnet/Del Valle
Border Pacific Railroad
Buckeye Pacific
Builder Marts of America
C S W Supply
Campbell Lumber
Cano Coors
Capitol Cement
Cargill
Cascade Empire
Citricos International-LaFeria
Citricos International-McAllen
Citricos International-Mission
Coastal Refining Marketing
Conner Industries
Dean Foods
Del Valle Grain
Delicious Valley Frozen Food-Merito
Delicious Valley Frozen Food-McAllen
Duncan Lead
E F Wallace
Eagle Rock-McAllen
Eagle Rock-Weslaco
Eagle Rock-Hidalgo
Eagle Rock-Mission
Eagle Rock-La Feria
Eagle Rock-Pharr
Edinburg Citrus Association
Farmland Industries
Federal Wholesale Drilling
Fontana Wood Products
Fox Packaging
Galvotec Alloys
Garcia Grain
Gaylord Container
Georgia Pacific
Gilbert Texas Con-Hidalgo
Gilbert Texas Con-Pharr
Gilbert Texas Con-Mission
Gilbert Texas Con-Weslaco
Gilbert Texas Con-McAllen
Griffin Brand McAllen
Halliburton
Helena Chemical
Heritage Bean Grain
Inland Container
Inlanad Paperboard Packaging
Inn Foods
Inserv Warehouse
International Citrus Sales
International Food Marketers
International Paper
International Recycling
LQF
J R Supply
Jefferson Smurfit-Edinburg
Jefferson Smurfit-Merito
JSO Associate
Kautsch Lumber
Keaton Fibre
Kenny Bonded Warehouse
Klein Berger
Kopkik Sons P H
La Feria Coop Gin
Les materiaux
Lind Produce
Lone Star Brick-Hidalgo
Lone Star Brick-McAllen
Loop Cold Storage-McAllen
Loop Cold Storage-Hidalgo
Lopez Brothers
Lotto International
Lumbermen's Merchandising
M I Drilling Fluids
Maria Sotelo
Matts Cash & Carry
McCoys Building Supply-Hauser
McCoys Building Supply-Kipfer
Meals & Grain
MFP Oregon
Midway Warehouse
Millard Refrigerated Services-Hidalgo
Millard Refrigerated Services-Merito
Monterey American Foods
Moore Munger
Moores Super Stores
Munoz Lumber
Nicho Produce
North Central Trading
Northern Feed & Bean-Edinburg
Northern Feed & Bean - Hidalgo
Noser Lumber Co
Omnisphere
Orchid International Scrap
Pacific cold Storage
Palmer Steel Supply
Pan American Paper
Pattinson Brick & Tile
Premier Juices
Redi Packaging
Redland Stone Products
Reliable Sales
Rio Grande Plastics
Santa Sarita
Shamrock Fibres
Slocan Group
Smurfit Recycling
Sotello Maria
Southern Frozen Foods-McAllen
Southern Frozen Foods-Alamo
Southwest Associates-Mission
Southwest Associates-McAllen
Southwest Juice Associates
Spencer Plastics
Tellez J P
Terra International
Tessenderlo Kerley
Texas Citrus Exchange
Texas F & R - McColl
Texas F & R - McAllen
Tolko Industries
Trinidad Bean Elevator
United Farmer Coop
United Pacific Forest Products
Valley Beverage
Valley Builders supply
Valley Ford Tractor
Valley Growers Gin
Valley Onions
Value Frozen Food
Villarreal Produce
VIP Sales
Vitro Crisa Cristaleria
Vulcan Materials - Mission
Vulcan Materials - Pharr
Vulcan Materials - McAllen
Customers served by RVSC Cont.
Vulcan Materials - La Feria
Vulcan Materials - Hidalgo
Vulcan Materials - Weslaco
Wallace & Sons
Weslaco Cash & Carry
Weslaco Salvage
Western Intl Forest Products
Weyerhaeuser
Wickes Lumber
Wilbur-Ellis - Rio Hondo
Wilbur-Ellis - Mercedes
Wilkinson Ray Iron & Metal
Woodland Lumber
Woodstock Manufacturing-McAllen
Woodstock Manufacturing-Merito
Zarsky Lumber
Zenith Electronic Corp