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Denver, Colorado - September 2004: Wall Street West OMNITRAX makes Harbor rail line hum. Denver entrepreneur Pat Broe turned remote port on Hudson Bay into trading dynamo. MORE

Denver, Colorado - June 24, 2004: OmniTRAX, an affiliate of The Broe Companies and the largest private railroad and rail operation in North America, played a leading role in winning a new $119 million Owens-Illinois glass plant for Northern Colorado. Colorado governmental and economic development officials, including Colorado Governor Bill Owens, state OmniTRAX and the Broe Companies assumed a primary responsibility to assemble, coordinate and direct the offer and process to win this economic prize. MORE

TORONTO - October 7th 2004: Less ice means new transport opportunities. About now, the polar bears arrive near the Canadian port at Churchill to await the winter freeze. Then they will walk north across the ice of Hudson Bay towards the Arctic. It was -6º C this week at the port, although a warmer world means the ice comes more slowly these days. That is bad news for the polar bears, but good news for shipping. MORE

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - August 27, 2004: CSX Transportation (CSXT), a business unit of CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX), announced today its partnership with one of North America’s leading transportation services companies, OmniTRAX, to provide more efficient switching to the Fulton Industrial Business District, just outside Atlanta, Ga. MORE

Denver, Colorado - October 26, 2004: OmniTRAX, an affiliate of The Broe Companies, has announced that it has concluded a lease of CSXT’s Fulco Branch Line near Atlanta, Georgia, effective at 12:01 a.m., Saturday, October 23, 2004. Fulton County Railway, LLC, a subsidiary of OmniTRAX, began operations at that time. David Lutz serves as President of Fulton County Railway, and Larry Davis is Director of Marketing and Sales. MORE