Private company
Southern Ontario Railway
Logo: http://www.gwrr.com/operations/railroads/north_america/southern_ontario_railway, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3
Shortline railway in Ontario, Canada
The Southern Ontario Railway (reporting mark RLHH) is a shortline railroad in the province of Ontario, owned and operated by Genesee & Wyoming Canada Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It operated 69 miles (111 km) of track from Brantford to Nanticoke, Ontario, from 1998 to 2018.2 It is headquartered in Hamilton.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersHamilton1
- Websitewww.gwrr.com/sor
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The Southern Ontario Railway (reporting mark RLHH) is a shortline railroad in the province of Ontario, owned and operated by Genesee & Wyoming Canada Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It operated 69 miles (111 km) of track from Brantford to Nanticoke, Ontario, from 1998 to 2018.2
Corporate structure
Southern Ontario Railway is part of a group headed by Genesee & Wyoming. 48 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.
- Genesee & Wyoming Darien, Connecticut, United States
- Southern Ontario Railway Hamilton
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Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.
Subsidiaries and ownership
Parent company
From Wikidata.1
Acquisitions
- Succeeded Canadian National Railway1
Links
- Websitewww.gwrr.com/sor1
- WikipediaSouthern Ontario Railway
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ7570227
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
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- 4Wikimedia CommonsSouthern Ontario Railway photo by SoftwareSimian, CC BY-SA 3.0