Welcome to Ashland Railway
Ashland Railway began operations in 1986 and operates in Richland, Ashland, Huron, and Wayne counties. We are a 56-mile short line railroad serving North Central Ohio in a region known as “Mid-Ohio.” Located between Cleveland, Columbus, and Akron/Canton along the I-71 corridor, we provide essential rail service to the communities of Ashland, Mansfield, Willard, Shelby, Plymouth, and West Salem. Ashland Railway interchanges with Class 1 railroads Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation as well as regional short line Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. Coupled with our affiliated companies, Skye Trucking and Mansfield Railport, we offer customers a complete logistics package.
Mission Statement
Ashland Railway is committed to partnering with our customers to meet their logistics needs and support their future visions. With our dedication to providing superior service, we strive for excellence and recognize that success is achieved by supporting our customers’ goals. Ashland Railway finds solutions to challenges and works each day to maintain our reputation for providing exceptional and incident free service.
Values
Excellence, passion, commitment, teamwork, and safety are our core values.
- Excellence – our dedicated teams strive each day to exceed our customers’ expectations
- Passion – our associates work with passion, and take pride in their contribution to the success of our company and the support they collectively provide to make our customers stronger
- Teamwork – respect, integrity, communication, cooperation, and collaboration is our “mantra”
- Commitment – we are committed to our customers, working diligently each day to exceed their expectations, create efficiencies, and provide solutions to challenges that arise
- Safety – our company is focused on creating a safe work environment, emphasizing with our associates the importance of individual safety as well as the safety of their colleagues, our customers and the communities we serve
