Freight Service
The Finger Lakes Railway is predominantly a freight company, and works to serve the customers and haul goods in a quick and professional process. FGLK handles 18,000+ cars of freight each year and growing. They handle a large variety of goods including plastic, canned food, clay, grain, lumber and paper products, scrap steel, chemical substances, finished steel, salt, sand, soda ash, paper, potash, fertilizer, beer, phosphorus fertilizer, telephone poles, and aluminum ingots.
Finger Lakes Railway is a vital connection for the industries in the area, with its interchanges with the Class I railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern with connections to Canadian Pacific via Norfolk Southern. The goods that FGLK removes or delivers to the manufacturers are often shipped across the country, with FGLK-owned rail cars spotted in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maine, Ontario, Canada and Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, and even as far out as California.
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