The primary commodities hauled included, chemicals, grain, flour, sand and fertilizers.

Before that, it was owned by the Great Northern Railway and formed a line that went from Brook Park, Minnesota to St.

In March 2003, unsafe track conditions that led to an embargo on all traffic caused the St. Croix Valley Railroad to abandon its line from Brook Park to Mora.

Ownership of the St. Croix Valley Railroad was turned over from Railamerica Incorporated to KBN Incorporated named for Tom Kotnour, Norman (Pete) Bierwerth of Midwest Locomotive Inc. and Frank Nesbit of Independent Locomotive Service, jointly owning KBN, in 2001.

Deterioration of the Snake River bridge crossing in Pine City caused a disruption to the line in 2009 but it was reconstructed.

The SCXY 1363 is now black with a yellow cab face and side trim (separated by a red stripe), recalling the Northern Pacific Railway paint scheme commonly found on later NPRY diesels (shortly before the 1970 BN merger).