Patriot Rail acquired its first short line railroad, the Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR), in November 2006. The freight railroad operates a total of 149 miles of rail (118 main line miles) running through middle Tennessee (Giles, Maury and Lawrence Counties) and northwest Alabama (Lauderdale County). The Tennessee Southern interchanges traffic with Class I carrier CSX Transportation (CSXT) at Natco, Tennessee. The railroad also provides intermodal service at its barge-served port facilities located in Florence, Alabama, at the Port of Florence.

In May 2007, Patriot Rail purchased the Rarus Railway (BAP), a freight line operating a total of 63 miles of rail (26 main line miles) between Anaconda and Butte, Montana. In July 2007, Rarus changed its name to Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway. The railroad interchanges traffic with Class I carriers Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) at Butte and Silver Bow, Montana, and Union Pacific (UP) at Silver Bow, Montana.

In January 2008, Patriot Rail acquired its third short line railroad, the 34-mile Utah Central Railway (UCRY) located in Ogden, Utah. The railroad interchanges traffic with Class I carriers UP and BNSF at Ogden, Utah.

Patriot Rail’s fourth railroad, the Sacramento Valley Railroad (SAV), was formed in March 2008 to provide exclusive rail freight services at McClellan Business Park, a 3,000-acre business park located near Sacramento, California. McClellan Park has more than 2.4 million square feet of rail-served facilities, including 155 industrial buildings, 35 warehouses and a 10-acre rail transloading yard. The seven-mile railroad interchanges traffic with Class I carriers BNSF and UP.

In June 2008, Patriot acquired its fifth railroad, the 68-mile Louisiana and North West Railroad (LNW) headquartered in Homer, Louisiana. The railroad interchanges traffic with Class I carriers UP at McNeil, Arkansas, and with Kansas City Southern (KCS) at Gibsland, Louisiana.

Patriot formed its sixth railroad, the Temple & Central Texas Railway (TC), in August 2009 to provide exclusive rail switching and other rail-related services to customers in the City of Temple’s Central Pointe Rail Park in Temple, Texas. The railroad interchanges traffic with BNSF.

In December 2010, Patriot acquired the 13-mile Piedmont and Northern Railway (PNRW) located in Gaston County, North Carolina, approximately 20 miles west of Charlotte. The railroad interchanges with Class I railroads Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) at Gastonia and CSXT at Mount Holly.

At year-end 2010, Patriot completed its largest acquisition to-date with the purchase of the six railroads belonging to Weyerhaeuser Company. The railroads are listed below:

• DeQueen and Eastern Railroad (DQE) operates over 50 miles in southwest Arkansas and interchanges with the KCS in DeQueen, Arkansas
• Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad (TOE) operates over 41 miles in southeast Oklahoma (connects directly with the DQE at the Oklahoma/Arkansas border) and interchanges with BNSF via the Kiamichi Railroad at Valliant, Oklahoma
• Columbia & Cowlitz Railway (CLC) operates over 14 route miles in southwest Washington and interchanges with UP and BNSF through the Longview Switching Company (jointly owned by the UP and BNSF) at Longview, Washington
• Patriot Woods Railroad operates over 23 route miles in southwest Washington and interchanges directly to the CLC
• Golden Triangle Railroad (GTRA) operates over 9.5 route miles in central Mississippi and interchanges with KCS at Columbus, Mississippi, and with BNSF and NS (via the Alabama Gulf Coast Railroad) via trackage rights over the KCS
• Mississippi & Skuna Valley Railroad (MSV) owns 22 route miles in Mississippi (non-operating/donated in Dec. 2011).

In May 2012, Patriot formed its 13th railroad, the Kingman Terminal Railroad, located in Kingman, Arizona. The 5-mile line interchanges traffic with BNSF.

Patriot Rail is focused on working with new and existing customers to organically grow freight revenue while also evaluating railroad acquisitions throughout North America.

In December 2013, Patriot Rail acquired the assets of a railcar repair and cleaning service provider located in Central Virginia (Keysville). The new railcar facility will operate under its new name, Blue Ridge Railcar Repair LLC (Blue Ridge).

The Blue Ridge facility is located in Keysville, Virginia, 16 miles from the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) interchange via the Buckingham Branch Railroad (BB). The shop is an M-1003 AAR certified railcar repair facility with 21 acres of land, paint and blast capabilities, and 11,000 feet of track capacity which allows for up to 130 “repair in progress” cars to be stored at any given time.  Blue Ridge will repair, clean, and paint a wide array of railcar types including boxcars, hoppers, gondolas, and flatcars.