The line began operations in 1951 as a division of the White City Corporation, providing tenants of the new Medford Industrial Park (formerly US Army Cantonment Camp White) with contract rail switching services and a local connection to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company.

[1] Union Tank Car renamed the railroad the WCTU Railway Company effective January 1975.

On December 17, 2012, Marmon Transportation Services announced the sale of WCTU Railway LLC to RVTR Rail Holdings, a holding company owned by Scott DeVries of Superior, Wisconsin.

Operations are conducted Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) with one train crew.

The railroad's main commodities transported are asphalt, cement, chemicals and forest products.