Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad

The Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad (or Bloomer Line) (reporting mark BLOL), headquartered in Gibson City, Illinois, is a Class III railroad serving the agricultural communities of Ford, Mclean and Livingston counties in east-central Illinois. Its primary traffic is from servicing grain elevators owned by the Alliance Grain Company, with loads such as corn, soybeans and wheat, but also potash, DAP and raw plastic to Gibson City, where they are interchanged with the Norfolk Southern, Canadian National and at Chatsworth with the Toledo, Peoria and Western short line. It is composed of 2 connected lines, one from Colfax to Kempton and another from Gibson City, to Strawn, where the lines meet.