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Western Rail Road

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Reporting mark
  
WRRC

Dates of operation
  
1976–

Locale
  
Central Texas

Headquarters
  
New Braunfels, Texas

Track gauge
  
4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The Western Rail Road (reporting mark WRRC) is a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) shortline railroad owned by Cemex that connects a Cemex quarry and cement plant at Dittlinger, Texas (just south of New Braunfels), to the Austin Subdivision of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP). The company was incorporated in March 1974 as the PB Railroad, and the present name was adopted in September 1975. The line was completed by the end of 1976, connecting the quarry and plant to the parallel Missouri Pacific Railroad and Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad lines (now both UP).

References

Western Rail Road Wikipedia