Railroad Development Corporation
The Railroad Development Corporation (RDC ) is a US-based company for the operation of railways worldwide. The company is headquartered Pittsburgh. The business segments also includes support for the privatization of state railway companies by the company acts as an investor and later operation ensures.
The company was formed in 1990 to save the ailing Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. To this end, they took over this company. The rescue attempt was however zunichtegemacht by management of the P & LE and the RDC was a railway company without railroad there. 1991 investigated the consignor in Iowa a new operator for the Iowa Interstate Railroad. The RDC got in, and has since its initial 20 - Increase % stake to 100%.
As many states began in the 1990s in Central and South America, to nationalize their railways, the company got into this business and business 2006, eight railroads in America, Africa and Europe.
2006 caught the company in the United States a stir when she imported two Chinese QJ steam locomotives of the class. The locomotives should be used in future before tourist trains.
Investments
The Railroad Development Corporation operates the following railway lines: