{"id":6346,"date":"2010-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/2010\/10\/19\/bnsf-ns-up-upping-bets-on-intermodal-6\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:00:00","slug":"bnsf-ns-up-upping-bets-on-intermodal-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/bnsf-ns-up-upping-bets-on-intermodal-6\/","title":{"rendered":"BNSF, NS, UP upping bets on intermodal","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
BNSF, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific have spent or are spending more than $600 million in Kansas, Pennsylvania and Illinois to increase their intermodal business.<\/p>\n
BNSF is constructing a $200 million intermodal terminal southwest of Kansas City in Edgerton, Kan., reports journalstar.com. The state is contributing $35 million toward the project, which is to be repaid by a utilities sales tax.<\/p>\n
Norfolk Southern will hold a groundbreaking Oct. 19 on a 220-acre, $94 million intermodal terminal near Greencastle, Pa., scheduled to be completed in 2012, reports progressiverailroading.com, which says the new terminal is part of the NS Crescent Corridor \u2013 a 2,500-mile intermodal double-stack route linking New Jersey and Louisiana.<\/p>\n
Union Pacific, meanwhile, has opened a $370 million intermodal terminal at Joliet, Ill., reports journalstar.com. UP said the new terminal has the capacity to handle some 500,000 highway-to-rail containers and trailers, and is second in size to UP\u2019s Long Beach, Calif., intermodal terminal that has a capacity of some 700,000 container and trailer loadings annually.<\/p>\n
Railwayage.com reports that among the Joliet terminal\u2019s features are four 8,000-foot tracks with capacity to handle the loading or unloading of 104 double-stack cars, six 8,000-foot tracks to sort railcars by destination, and six storage tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BNSF, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific have spent or are spending more than $600 million in Kansas, Pennsylvania and Illinois to increase their intermodal business. BNSF is constructing a $200 million intermodal terminal southwest of Kansas City in Edgerton, Kan., reports journalstar.com. The state is contributing $35 million toward the project, which is to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n