66 Business View Magazine - May 2016
The Riverport Railroad
Former military base becomes railroad, transload, switching, and storage yard
Riverport Railroad, LLC. (RVPR) operates a short line
railroad that serves a commercial, industrial and distri-
bution complex at the former Savanna Army Ordinance
Depot, now named the Savanna Depot Business &
Technology Park. It is located in northwestern Illinois,
on the Mississippi River, 40 miles south of Wisconsin
and across the river from Bellevue, Iowa, just south of
Hanover, Illinois and just north of Savanna, Illinois.
The company was organized to purchase track, rail as-
sets and significant real estate assets located at the
Savanna Depot. At present, RVPR owns 337 acres of
land and 72 miles of rail on a railroad right-of-way of
664 acres. RVPR also has the contractual right to buy
