Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad (DMVW)

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DMVW started operations in September 1990, when the company was successful bidder to operate 360 miles of Soo Line track and trackage rights in North Dakota and Montana. DMVW’S original network consisted of track between Oakes to Washburn and Flaxton to Whitetail Montana.

Since 1990 DMVW has added the following line segments to its network:

•  Washburn to Max
•  McKenzie to Moffit
•  Oakes to Hankinson
•  Geneseo Jct. to Aberdeen, SD [was a Great Northern branch to Aberdeen]

Map via dmvwrr_map

trains
Like the Evansville & Western Railway, this shortline is willing to consolidate cuts of hoppers from smaller elevators into longer "corn trains" for delivery to the Blue Flint Ethanol Plant.  It also hauls 50-car corn trains from larger elevators to the ethanol plant. When it empties the hoppers to make ethanol, it then loads them with Dried Distillers Grain (DDG). The DDG and the ethanol in tank cars is then delivered for interchange with the Canadian Pacific in Max, ND. The empty hoppers are then deliverd back to an elevator to repeat the cycle.