Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad Information

LAL and its subsidiary railroads offer multimodal services ranging from simple team tracks (public-use sidetracks) to product quantity and temperature reporting, heating, and other enhancements. Customer-operated facilities on our rail lines offer additional commodity-specific multimodal capabilities. LAL can recommend a motor carrier to make final delivery, or you are free to utilize any qualified motor carrier. "Why locate on LAL?" LAL and its subsidiary railroads offer our customers a choice of competitive rail routings unbeaten anywhere in the Northeast, including CSX, Norfolk Southern, Canadian Pacific, and other railroads. Also, LAL is the place to be if you require on-demand switching and enhanced multimodal services, which larger railroads typically do not perform. From its beginnings as a 13-mile short line railroad in 1964, LAL has grown to become a 282-mile regional railroad operating in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. Its revenue base is diversified, stable, and growing, and the company reinvests in improvements to its property and equipment for the future. When you locate on LAL, you receive a level of service that has earned national recognition1997 Railway Age Short Line of the Year, for example. Also, LAL and its affiliates have won many safety awards. "Doesn't a short line just add another layer of cost?" Actually, most transportation rates to and from stations served by LAL and its subsidiaries are quoted on a "through" basis by one of the connecting Class I railroads (NS or CSX, for example), with LAL's portion of the revenue included. Most of the time, rates to/from LAL stations are the same as rates to and from nearby stations on the connecting railroad itself.