Chillicothe–Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority
The Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority (AAR reporting marks CBRM) is a shortline railroad in north-central Missouri that runs from Chillicothe, Missouri southeastward through the communities of Sumner and Triplett on its way to Brunswick, Missouri.
The 39 miles of railroad was once Wabash Railroad and Norfolk and Western Railway property before N&W abandoned the railroad in the 1980s. The railroad also had 3 hookups to other railroads...The Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (formerly the Milwaukee Road, Soo Line Railroad, and I&M Rail Link) in Chillicothe, BNSF Railway (formerly Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and Burlington Northern) in Sumner, and Norfolk Southern (formerly Wabash and N&W) in Brunswick.
The Chillicothe Southern railroad bought the 39 miles tracks and used the property before selling the right of way to the CBRM on July 24, 1987. However, the line was leased to the Wabash and Grand River Railway on April 1, 1990, but after the major flooding that hit the midwest in 1993 caused the tracks to receive heavy flood damage, the line became once again the CBRM after the Wabash and Grand River RR terminated it's lease on December 1, 1993.
On December 8, 2006, the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune reported that the city of Chillicothe sold the majority, about 37 miles, of the railroad to Seattle, Washington based Montoff Transportation, LLC for $976,000. The part of the railroad that was sold has been embargoed since 2003. The city still owns the railroad to the city's industrial park and to a location just east of Chillicothe where future development is planned. Today, the part of the railroad that stretched from Brunswick northward through Triplett and to where it meets up with BNSF railway in Sumner has been torn down, while the tracks north of that to the location east of Chillicothe have been abandoned and most of the tracks are covered in vegetation.