GLE COMPANY PROFILE

Description of business
Senior officers
Facilities served
Major rail classification yards
Principal shops
Major installations
Plant and equipment
Employees
Corporate headquarters
Divisions

Description of business

Great Lakes Eastern Corporation, a Pennsylvania-based holding company with headquarters in Harrisburg, PA, owns all the common stock of and controls a major freight railroad, Great Lakes Eastern Railroad Co. In addition, it owns Great Lakes Land Corp. and a railroad equipment leasing company, Great Lakes Leasing, Inc.

The railroad system's owned and operated lines extend over approximately 10,000 miles of road in 11 states and the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Great Lakes Land Corp. manages more than 500,000 acres of coal resources in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and West Virginia.

Great Lakes Leasing, Inc., supplies a variety of equipment to railroads under short- or long-term lease agreements.  Locomotives and rolling stock are available for lease and can be found at the Great Lakes Leasing web site.

Senior officers

(As of January 2004)

Kevin Burkholder
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Slarski
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
James Cassatt, Jr.
Vice Chairman and Director of Transportation
Vacant Position
Vice Chairman and Chief Mechanical Officer
Tonya Burkholder
Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer

Facilities served

Bulk transfer facilities
98
Coal loading facilities
78
Lumber reload centers
67
Paper distribution centers
51
Paper mills
42
Metals distribution centers
45
Steel production and processing facilities
46
Utility plants
32
Intermodal terminals
18
Auto distribution facilities
20
Auto assembly plants
17
Coal and iron ore transload facilities
12
Seaports
3
Lake ports
5
Vehicle mixing centers
1
Just-In-Time rail auto parts centers
2

Major rail classification yards

Albany, NY
Allentown, PA
Ayer, MA
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Chicago, IL
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Columbus, OH
Conway, PA
Detroit, MI
East Deerfield, MA
Elkhart, IN
Harrisburg, PA
Newark, NJ
St. Albans, VT
Palmer, MA

Principal shops

Locomotive

Altoona, PA
Conway, PA
Enola, PA
St. Albans, VT

Car repair

Hollidaysburg, PA
St. Albans, VT

Major installations

Ashtabula, OH
Ashtabula Coal Dock

Conway, PA
Engineer Training Center

Harrisburg, PA
System Operations Office

Plant and equipment

Miles of road operated 11,000
Track miles operated 22,000
Locomotives (owned and leased)

2200+

Freight cars (owned and leased) 90,400

Employment

Number of employees   12,500

Corporate headquarters

Great Lakes Eastern Corporation
1 Commerce Building
Philadelphia, PA  99999-9999
(555) 555-5555

 

Divisions

  • Albany Division
    Selkirk, NY
  • New England Division
    Framingham, MA
  • Chicago Division
    Chicago, IL
  • Pittsburgh Division
    Pittsburgh, PA
  • Dearborn Division
    Dearborn, MI
  • Philadelphia Division
    Philadelphia, PA

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