“By allowing for more efficient transfer of cargo directly between ships and rail, the Barstow International Gateway will maximise rail and distribution efficiency regionally and across the US supply chain and reduce truck traffic and freeway congestion in the Los Angeles Basin and the Inland Empire,” commented Katie Farmer, president and CEO of BNSF, who went on to point out that this is expected to improve fluidity throughout BNSF's rail network, moving containers off the ports quicker, and facilitating improved efficiency at the company's existing intermodal hubs, including those in the Midwest and Texas. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) BNSF plans to spend more than 1.5 billion on a new multiuse rail facility in Southern California to facilitate inland container moves from the West Coast ports. Westbound freight will similarly be processed at the facility to more efficiently bring trains to the ports and other California terminals, according to the company. The SRP provides a current assessment of the rail system and serves as a practical roadmap for future rail investment and policies in Arizona. “BNSF’s planned Barstow International Gateway will improve cargo velocity through our port and reduce truck traffic on our freeways,” said Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka, while Port of Long Beach counterpart, Mario Cordero, stated, “This project will help improve supply chain fluidity, reduce environmental impacts and enhance the competitiveness of California and the nation’s largest port complex.”īNSF said that once the containers reach the Barstow International Gateway, they will be processed at the facility using clean-energy powered cargo-handling equipment, and then staged and built into trains moving east via BNSF’s network across the nation. INTRODUCTION The purpose of the Arizona State Rail Plan (SRP) is to guide the advancement of the state’s rail system. Mid Canada Transload Services is a unique facility strategically located just north of the US border at Emerson, Manitoba. In addition, the facility is expected to allow the direct transfer of boxes from ships at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to trains for transport through the Alameda Corridor onto the BNSF mainline up to Barstow. A full-service transload facility has loading and unloading services handled by. Covering 32,500 miles, we are the largest intermodal railroad, handling more than a million additional intermodal loads annually than our competitors. The Barstow International Gateway will be an approximately 4,500-acre new integrated rail facility on the west side of Barstow, consisting of a rail yard, intermodal facility and warehouses for transloading freight from international containers to domestic ones. BNSF Railway has unveiled its plans to invest more than US$1.5 billion to construct a new rail facility in Southern California and the first being developed by a Class 1 railroad. Plans to build a diesel repair shop, a third main track in the BNSFs classification yard in Galesburg and storage tracks that allow freight trains that are being made up to be moved aside to allow other traffic through, could lead to the creation of more jobs once the economy rebounds, the officials said.
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