Business View Magazine - September 2015

60 Business View - September 2015 Business View - September 2015 61 ton (PUCC), and the Port Terminal Railroad (PTR), but there was a lot of misunderstanding about who we were and what we did. “We were thought of as the port railroad, as a regulatory agency, as a passenger railroad, and in our filings with the STB (The U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Surface Transportation Board) each one of those properties, individually, did not recognize the fact that we were actually operating under the umbrella of the South Carolina Public Railways Commission. So there was some vagueness and ambiguity. In order to clean all that up, and to be identified as an actual freight railroad operat- ing company - and not to distance ourselves too much from being a state entity - we came up with the name, ‘Palmetto Railways,’ and we incorporated all of our operations under the umbrella of Palmetto Railways, and operate them, now,  Design Services  Facility Operational Analysis  Surveying and Permitting  Hydraulics and Hydrology  Construction Management Let’s discuss howTranSystems can help with your transportation needs. Contact: Matt Gehman mcgehman@transystems.com (757) 287-6443 www.transystems.com FREIGHT RAIL SOLUTIONS logistics logistics