Big Sky Rail

Big Sky Rail
Locale Delisle to Beechy
Macrorie to Laporte
Wartime to Kyle
Dates of operation 2011
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Headquarters Emerald Park, Saskatchewan

Mobile Grain

Legend
Big Sky Rail
Last Mountain Railway
CN trackage
CP trackage

Regina
Condie
Lumsden
Disley
Bethune
Findlater
Chamberlain
Aylesbury
Craik
Girvin

Davidson
Bladworth
Kenaston
Hanley
Dundurn
Saskatoon
Blairmore
Vanscoy

Delisle

CP Outlook Sub
Macrorie

Tichfield Jct
Dunblane
Birsay
Lucky Lake
Beechy
Dinsmore
Wiseton
Elrose

Wartime Jct
Kyle
Plato
Richley

CN White Bear Sub
Eston
Madison
Glidden
Eatonia

Laporte
CN Mantario Sub

Big Sky Rail (reporting mark BGS) is a Canadian short line railway operating in the province of Saskatchewan

This 400 km shortline railroad was formed in 2011 as a subsidiary of Mobil Grain, a Saskatchewan-based agricultural processor and exporter. The Big Sky Rail network has three separate subdivisions. The first is the Conquest subdivision which interchanges with CN at Delisle and runs south to Beechy. The second is the Elrose subdivision which runs from near Macrorie west to Laporte. The third (and smallest) is the Matador subdivision which runs south from Wartime to Kyle.

Big Sky Rail operates with running rights into CN Chappell Yard in Saskatoon and also to the Last Mountain Railway at Davidson. All locomotives used on BGS are owned by Mobil Grain (MGLX) and are utilized on their sister company, Last Mountain Railway.

Big Sky Rail was purchased by AGT Food and Ingredients Inc., for $57.5 million Canadian in the fall of 2015.[1] AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. purchased the railroad, and other short lines in Saskatchewan, in order to increase its logistics capacities.

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