The Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad (reporting mark EZR) is a switching and terminal railroad operating on about 1 mile of track in the vicinity of Elizabethtown, PA. The railroad owns two EMD SW1200 locomotives of which one is active. Number 19 is leased by Evraz company. Number 33 is leased by Trinity Industries.
Operations
The railroad currently is at a standstill and is used for railway tank car storage. Both locomotives are still on site but not in service.
The Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad began with a yellow GE 45-ton centercab locomotive bearing no markings. The locomotive had briefly been in New Freedom, PA, on the western end of the Stewartstown Railroad before being moved to the industrial park a short distance west of the borough of Elizabethtown. Later it was sold to Erie Coke in Erie, PA, and shipped to its new owner via flatbed truck.
Following the closure of the Evraz Claymont Steel mill in Claymont, DE, in December 2013, the company acquired three end-cab EMD switchers via auction held on March 5, 2014. The locomotives were No. 33 (formerly USS 33, ex-948, and ex-OIM 948), an EMD SW1200; No. 115 (ex-USS 115, ex-NPBL 115), also an SW1200; and No. 919, an SW9 (ex-GSS in Alabama, ex-Conrail 9060, ex-PC 9060, ex-PRR 9060, ex-PRR 8860). Additionally there were dozens of gondola and flat cars for sale, but most, if not all, of these cars were scrapped.
Locomotives No. 33 and 115 are currently advertised for sale on the Sterling Rail website. They are stored out of view on the northwest side of the Crowe Transportation Services facility in the industrial park at 2388 North Market Street, Elizabethtown, PA 17022. No. 919 is leased to Lancaster Propane Gas, 55 Maibach Lane, Mount Joy, PA 17552.