PGR is directly operating several separate branches in Minnesota including the Airlake Terminal Railway.

Progressive Rail is also known as the Cannon Valley Railroad (reporting mark CVRC).

[1] The PGR branches are listed as follows: Headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota (a southern suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul), Progressive Rail, Inc. was established in 1996 to initially serve the Airlake Industrial Park.

In 2001, they leased the former Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway "High Line" in Bloomington and Richfield and started restoring trackage.

[4] Major commodities include resins, chemicals, fuels, lumber, gypsum board, cement, fly-ash, metals, paper, machinery, food and kindred products, scrap material, and consumer products.