The A&A was chartered in 1917 to operate the trackage between its namesake towns, from the defunct Buffalo, Attica, & Arcade Railroad. The railroad bought its first diesel in 1941, and completed dieselization in 1947 following a serious wreck that forced them to send the locomotive back to the builder in Erie, PA. In August of 1962, the railroad began its excursion business with locomotive №18, purchased from the Boyne City Railroad in Michigan; and a couple of ex-Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western commuter passenger cars.

In 2009, the A&A was the target of a hostile takeover by the Freedom Central (FCRR). Following the completion of the takeover in 2011, the railroad was rechartered as a non-profit to operate the passenger excursions on FCRR's Core Division trackage, while the Freedom Central became the host railroad and provided freight service. Following the corporate reorganization in 2013, the non-profit was again re-chartered as a for-profit company and adopted the "Steam Excursion Services" name. Today it operates as both an Excursion Agent for all host roads, as well as an organizer for hire at large.

The B&EA was chartered in 2016 to continue commuter operations between Buffalo and the southtowns after Amtrak ceased operations on the Buffalo Line after FCRR led a coalition of interests to purchase the line; following Norfolk Southern's PSR-induced pull-out of New York State. Named after a stillborn electric commuter line of the early 1900's. B&EA began operations using the largest of the SES steam fleet and excursion coaches, but soon switched to RDC's as soon as sufficient numbers had been purchased or leased.

During the pandemic of 2020, B&EA engineering staff worked with JFX' Skunkwerx personnel to re-engineer the RDC's with military-surplus Honeywell AGT1500 gas-turbines coupled to Siemens AC electrical gear and traction motors. As the new RTC fleet continues to grown, B&EA continues to expand service. As FCCorp.US continues its own Green Energy Program, B&EA is working to convert the RTC's from diesel and LNG over to liquid Hydrogen.

Today "The Bea Line" provides safe, frequent, reliable, and comfortable commuter operations, serving Buffalo, Olean, and all the communities in between. They also offer a single round trip daily out of Buffalo, connecting with Amtrak's Pennsylvanian at Harrisburg, PA.

The B&EVR was originally chartered to reconstruct the old mainline of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh between Bliss and a connection with the Buffalo Line at Machias Junction. The segment from the newly constructed CP South Freedom junction to Bliss was used as part of the Freedom Central's Core Division and serviced the new Lumina Locomotive Works. As the larger 4-(4-4)-2 ACE-3000 3rd generation steam locomotives proved to be extremely taxing on the shortline right-of-way from Arcade to Arcade Junction, it was decided to rebuild to Machias Junction to allow the engines to be sent to the American Network without having to squeeze through the Arcade Shops yard trackage.

From South Freedom south to Machias Junction, a Class-IV rail line was constructed even as the right-of-way was being widened to accomodate a triple-track railroad. The extra space was used to lay down a dual-gauge Class-III 3ft and 2ft guage line, as well as a Class-II triple-gauge 18in / 15in / 12in line. A fourth triple-gauge line of 10in / 7½in / 7¼in gauges is the last of the on-ground tracks. The fifth and final line is also a triple-gauge line providing tracks of 5in / 3½in / 45mm gauges. All these lines provide for the largest publically-accessible small-scale train ride railroad tracks in the world, second only to Train Mountain in Oregon (which is not publically-accessible).

Educational Railroad Services began as a means for FCRR to capitalize on the growing national interest in railroading as a career, while simultaneously training up a potential faction of valuable employees for its own growing need for qualified personnel. Initially starting as a school for steam-qualified engine crews, it rapidly added general-service train crews, and soon there-after other skills such as car inspectors, track maintenance, signals & communications, etc. After attaining accrediation, they also added qualified inspector classes to prepare people for DOT/PUC/FRA positions.

It started in the Arcade Shops, but the railroad purchased the old GCC building when the college closed the satelite campus. And when Prestolite closed the manufacturing in Arcade, FCRR bought the building to open a new combined shop, and hands-on training center. ERSX teamed up with BOCES and SUNY to become accredited for both high school vocational as well as post-secondary professional education.

The Freedom Central Railroad was chartered in 2006 when the A&A refused to build a line from Arcade to Freedom to service the gravel quarry there. As a common-carrier, they had no choice but to accept the FCRR's freight at interchange, built at the Arcade Shops/Mill St Yard. Soon there-after, FCRR began its own steam program, and almost immediately superceded the A&A. FCRR began making plans for a warehouse and bulk-commodities transload facility along its line. The problem was one of location; the businesses were north, but their tracks went south. Then the A&A management did something obsurd... they began delaying the FCRR's shipments, and that triggered the FCRR to begin a plan for a hostile takeover which was completed in 2011.

With a solid railroad from North Java to South Freedom, FCRR began looking at the properties available for purchase and and soon landed nearly all the land between the village of Arcade and Genesee Rd. Warehouses were build and the assets of the old Pioneer Transport trucking company were acquired at firesale prices. Liberty Central Storage and what would become Fallen Flags Freight were born. A year and a half later, FCRR spun off the warehousing, trucking, and excursion businesses and chartered the Freedom Central Corporation over everything. At that time, Freedom Central started negotiations to build a coalition to buy the Buffalo Line, and as soon as that happened, the railroad submitted an application to change its reporting mark/initials from FCRR to FCR.

G.A.&P. was incorporated in 2020, in conjunction with FCCorp.US's sell-off of the East Broad Top Heritage Park to the EBT Foundation. The GAP Road is a joint venture between Freedom Central, Everett Railroad, and the Altoona Railroading Museum. With several years of work, GA&P has rebuilt the (new) New Portage Road from the newly rebuilt WYE interlocking, up the mountain to the reconstructed and activated CP-SF.

Gallitzin, Allegheny, & Portage has several excursion possibilites. As a joint-venture, the railroad has access to all of its partners' facilities: the Museum grounds; a stop at Historic Hollidaysburg; the quaint little station in Hollidaysburg Yard; Everett's normal runaround at Brook's Mills; the historic station at Roaring Spring; the end of Everett's line in Martinsburg; tunnels and loop in Gallitzin. The most popular are the full-day excursions that cover the entire territory and see double-(or even triple-)headed steam power, and the use of steam helpers on the climb out of East Freedom.

The new M.&H. was incorporated in 2014 to take over freight operations on the original M&H line as well as the switching at the Hershey Chocolate Factory. MHR replaced the original switching railroad Norfolk Southern following a fees dispute between the two companies. FCR had just completed the takeover of Enola Yard and the transition to its own operations.

NS refused to allow FCR to run a local job out of Enola to Hershey, but was willing to give access to the Harrisburg Line from the Hummelstown switch. While MIDH retained ownership of the engine facilities, the station & property, and passenger equipment, MHR gained ownership of the line from the Hummelstown switch to the new "Caverns" switch.

The Morrisville Industrial & Terminal Railroad was chartered after Conrail Shared Assets (CSA) purchased Kansas City Southern. The Morrisville Road was created to takeover the terminal and switching services formerly covered by the CSA crews.

MITR started operations using leased NS and CSX power, but soon switched to another set of GP45MECO's for use on the NEC, but a set of heavily-modified centercabs equipped to run on straight electric for switching in the yard. Part of the reason for the acquizition was to give JFX a location to do testing of it's stright-electric prototypes.

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