The Minnesota Rail Service Program (MRSI) Program was created in 1976. Funds are loaned or granted to rail users and rail carriers to rehabilitate deteriorating rail lines, to improve rail-shipping opportunities, and to preserve and maintain abandoned rail corridors for future transportation use.

Recently, funds have been used for improving, extending and moving rail sidings, construction of grain storage bins, fertilizer storage, building warehouses along the rail siding, and improving the speed of loading into rail cars. The success of this program has enabled it to fund itself for the last 25 years.

If you have any questions about the program or the application process contact Janelle Collier at (651) 366-3653. For a closer look at the MRSI program, please see the following link:

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/ofrw/mrsi.html