Central Railroad of Indianapolis
Central Railroad of Indianapolis  is a Class III short-line railroad that operates approximately  miles of rail line in north central Indiana.

One leg of the railroad begins near Marion at the unincorporated town of Michaelsville, passes west-southwest through Herbst, Swayzee and Sims, then through the Howard County communities of Sycamore, Greentown, and finally Kokomo, where it interchanges with U.S. Rail Corporation's Winamac Southern Rail System (see: https://web.archive.org/web/20170820211926/http://www.usrailcorp.com/divisions.php ).  

Central Railroad of Indianapolis is a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming. G&W had purchased the RailAmerica empire in 2012. RailAmerica had itself bought CERA and then parent Railtex in 2000.
CERA was formed in 1989 when Norfolk Southern leased several lines, including the now mostly-abandoned Tipton-Peru line and the Marion to Frankfort former "Cloverleaf" line to the then-new company through NS's "Thoroughbred Shortline program.  For a time, Norfolk Southern interchanged with CERA via its Frankfort to Kokomo line.  The latter route was embargoed after the Norfolk Southern Conrail merger allowed Norfolk Southern to move CERA interchange to Marion.

The railroad's main traffic comes from grain and metal products.  The CERA hauled around 8,000 carloads in 2008.

Locomotives:
TPW 1538 GP15-1
TPW 1539 GP15-1
TPW 2056 GP38
TPW 2070 GP38-3
TPW 2105 GP38-2
HESR 2107 GP38-2
TPW 3046 GP40
TPW 5008 GP50
TPW 5009 GP50
TPW 5010 GP50
TPW 5015 GP50

City/Town	Customer	Company Description	Type of Railcar	Notes
Vermont	Vermont Feed & Grain	Feed & Grain Elevator	Covered Hoppers	
Sims	Ceres Midland	Grain Elevator	Covered Hoppers	
Herbst	Co-Alliance	Fertilizer Supplier	Covered Hoppers/Tank Cars	
Marion	Double H Plastics	Plastic Manufacturer	Covered Hoppers
Marion	Agricor	Corn Milling	Covered Hoppers	
Amboy	Kokomo Grain	Grain Elevator	Covered Hoppers	
Gas City	Packaging Corporation of America	Packaging Company	Boxcars	
Hartford City	Shalee Oils	Oil Recycling	Tank Cars	
Hartford City	Petoskey Plastics	Plastic Manufacturer	Covered Hoppers	
Hartford City   International Paper   Paper Factory     Boxcars     Inactive

References

External links

Indiana Department of Transportation 2011 Railroad Map
Central Railroad of Indianapolis (CERA)

Indiana railroads
Transportation in Grant County, Indiana
Transportation in Howard County, Indiana
Transportation in Miami County, Indiana
RailAmerica
Spin-offs of the Norfolk Southern Railway
Companies operating former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad lines