In 1973, Richard J. Corman a native of Nicholasville, Kentucky starting doing railroad construction right after graduating high school. In a little over 35 years, he turned a railroad service company with a single backhoe into one of the nation's leading railroad service providers.

Although headquartered in Nicholasville, Kentucky there are R. J. Corman divisions in 19 other states as far west as Arizona, employing over 1000.

Timeline

• 1973 - Railroad Construction Company started
• 1983 - First Derailment Division Opened (Columbus, OH)
• 1987 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Bardstown Line (RJCR) acquired from CSXT
• 1987 - My Old Kentucky Dinner Train has its first excursion
• 1987 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Memphis Line (RJCM) acquired from CSXT
• 1989 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Cleveland Line (RJCL) acquired from CSXT
• 1990 - R. J. Corman Distribution Centers started
• 1993 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Western Ohio (RJCW) acquired from NS
• 1994 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Material Sales started
• 1996 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Allentown Lines (RJCN) acquired from Conrail
• 1996 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Pennsylvania Lines (RJCP) acquired from Conrail
• 1998 - R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC (Holding Company)
• 2001 - R. J. Corman Railroad Switching Co. started
• 2003 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Central Kentucky Lines (RJCC) acquired from CSXT
• 2004 - R. J. Corman Aircraft Maintenance started
• 2005 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./West Virginia Line (RJCV) acquired from CXST
• 2006 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Tennessee Terminal (RJCK) acquired from BNSF
• 2009 - R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Ashland started
• 2009 - R. J. Corman Railpower and Ecopower acquired from Railpower Technologies
• 2009 - R. J. Corman Derailment Services - Tucson/El Paso Division Opens
• 2010 - R. J. Corman Derailment Services - Billings and Havre Divisions Open

Storm Team Timeline

• 1999 - Hurricane Floyd (North Carolina)
• 2001 - Historic Blizzard (New York)
• 2002 - Mountain Landslide (West Virginia)
• 2004 - Hurricanes Charlie & Ivan (Florida)
• 2005 - Historic Hurricane Katrina (Alabama, Louisiana & Mississippi)
• 2008 - 500 Year Flood (Midwest)
• 2008 - Hurricanes Ike & Gustav (Mississippi & Louisiana)
• 2009 - Fall Flooding (Alabama & Georgia)
• 2009 - Mountain Blizzard (West Virginia & Virginia)
• 2010 - 100 Year Back-to-Back Blizzards (Maryland & Pennsylvania)
• 2011 - Mississippi River Floods (Missouri, Arkansas)
• 2011 - Missouri River and Souris River Floods
  (North Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas)
• 2011 - Hurricane Irene (North Carolina, Virginia, New York, Vermont)