Pacific Imperial Railroad

Name

Pacific Imperial Railroad

Website

https://pacificimperialrailroad.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Short-Line Freight Railroad Services

NAICS

Short Line Railroads (482112), Rail Transportation (482), Support Activities for Rail Transportation (4882)

SIC

Railroads, Line-Haul Operating (4011), Railroad Switching & Terminal Establishments (4013)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTLADACAL

Cross-Border Rail Freight Operators (International Corridors)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Transportation (Air, Maritime, Rail, Trucking)/Rail Freight Operators (Class I/Regional/Short Line)

SECONDARYTLADACAJ

Industrial & Terminal Railroads (Plant/Port Switching)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Transportation (Air, Maritime, Rail, Trucking)/Rail Freight Operators (Class I/Regional/Short Line)

SECONDARYTLACAEAC

Rail Intermodal Forwarding (Container/Rail-Ramp)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Forwarding & Customs Brokerage/Multimodal/Intermodal Freight Forwarding

Keywords

• Railroad freight services
• Short line railroad
• Freight transportation
• Cross border rail
• Cargo rail transport

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Supply Chain

Core offering

Pacific Imperial Railroad provides railroad freight services on the Desert Line, operating a short-line rail corridor in the San Diego / U.S.-Mexico border region. The company offers shippers rail-based freight transportation capacity as an alternative to truck and Class I rail options for cross-border cargo movement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pacific Imperial Railroad (Desert Line freight rail service) Freight rail transportation services operated by Pacific Imperial Railroad on the Desert Line corridor between the San Diego region and the U.S.-Mexico border, providing shippers an alternative to road and Class I rail freight movement.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Regional players

• Border Pacific Railroad (BJRR): Border Pacific Railroad (Brookfield/BAMR) operates a short line in the Imperial Valley connecting Calexico/Mexicali to the BNSF/UP mainlines — directly analogous to Pacific Imperial Railroad's role in serving the San Diego–Imperial Valley corridor and cross-border freight.

Broad incumbents

• Watco Companies: Watco is a major US short line and industrial switching operator with cross-border and port-related short line holdings; its portfolio model of owning and operating short-haul industrial corridors is structurally similar to Pacific Imperial Railroad's single-asset Desert Line operation.
• BNSF Railway: BNSF is one of two dominant Class I railroads in the Western US, with deep intermodal networks and existing interchange relationships at Southern California border crossings — directly competitive context for any short line seeking cross-border or intermodal freight.
• Union Pacific Railroad: Union Pacific is the other dominant Western US Class I, operating significant cross-border lanes into Mexico via El Paso and Eagle Pass; its Yuma and Calexico corridors form the competitive backdrop for Pacific Imperial's San Diego-based operations.
• Norfolk Southern: Norfolk Southern is a major eastern US Class I railroad; like CSX, it serves as an incumbent comparable for the commercial structure and capital intensity of running long-haul freight rail at scale, providing context for what Pacific Imperial Railroad would need to scale to.
• CSX Transportation: CSX is a major eastern US Class I railroad with cross-border interchange activity via connections to CPKC and other carriers; while not on the West Coast, it provides a useful comparable for Class I commercial discipline applied to cross-border freight.
• Genesee & Wyoming (GWI): GWI is one of the largest short line railroad holding companies in North America, operating hundreds of regional and industrial short lines — the closest business-model analog to a single-corridor, cross-border short line operator like Pacific Imperial Railroad.

Direct peers

• Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC): The merged CPKC (formerly Canadian Pacific + Kansas City Southern) is the largest single-line cross-border US-Mexico railroad, operating direct cross-border freight between the two countries — the exact activity Pacific Imperial Railroad's Desert Line is positioned to participate in.
• Ferrosur: Ferrosur operates a concessioned Mexican railroad serving southern and southeastern Mexico; as a Mexican rail operator with cross-border commercial relationships, it provides a comparable business model even though its geography does not directly overlap the Desert Line corridor.
• Ferromex: Ferromex (Grupo México Transportes) operates the largest railroad network in Mexico and handles substantial cross-border freight with US Class I carriers at border gateways including the Tijuana/Mexicali corridor that the Desert Line feeds.

Market position

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pacific-imperial-railroad

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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