About Us

Carload Express, Inc. operates three shortline railroads: The Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR) and Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad (SWP) serving western Pennsylvania, and the Camp Chase Railroad (CCRA) serving the Columbus, Ohio area. Our dedicated, locally based management is able to offer timely and flexible service demanded by today’s fast paced supply chains while offering the inherent economies of scale that rail shipping provides. Our multiple connections to the North American rail system allow our customers to enjoy competitive freight routing options, lowering their overall shipping costs.

Carload Express, Inc. plays an important, yet often unheralded role in the communities we serve by transporting many of the basic goods used in everyday life such as the paper you read, the food you eat, the bricks, steel, and lumber to build your home, and the coal that supplies the power to light it. The 26,000 shipments we handle annually equate to roughly 78,000 fewer trucks on local highways each year, lowering congestion and road maintenance costs.

Carload Express Quick Facts :

• Headquarters: Oakmont, PA
• Annual Carloads Handled: 26,000
• Locomotives: 15
• Employees: 34
• First year of operation: 1992