Toledo Blade wrote:CSX Transportation has asked for Wood County’s support if it applies for a federal grant to pay half the cost of a proposed $42 million expansion of the railroad’s intermodal terminal in North Baltimore, a railroad spokesman said Tuesday.
The project would extend the terminal’s container-handling area by 2,300 feet and include adding two wide-span cranes to the five erected there before the facility’s 2011 opening, spokesman Gary Sease said.
CSX spent $175 million to build the 500-acre terminal, which now employs about 300 people and handles about 2 million containerized freight shipments a year, transferring them either from one train to another or between trains and trucks.
That looks to be CSX acting on the expansion option that was built into the facility initially. Wonder what the lead time on those cranes is though? After this round, there may be another expansion in the works as well - depending on success on some new business opportunities
MSchwiebert wrote:That looks to be CSX acting on the expansion option that was built into the facility initially. Wonder what the lead time on those cranes is though? After this round, there may be another expansion in the works as well - depending on success on some new business opportunities
Do the Willard and Garrett Subs already have enough congestion with the current traffic in/out of North Baltimore? How do they expect to handle new, current, and other traffic that bypass North Baltimore?
"...and I was in the front and Matt grabbed and pulled my ears from behind me and made horsey sounds."
MSchwiebert wrote:That looks to be CSX acting on the expansion option that was built into the facility initially. Wonder what the lead time on those cranes is though? After this round, there may be another expansion in the works as well - depending on success on some new business opportunities
This may be just the tip of the ice burg.
Nothing to do with general freight or coal. A major intermodel customer has come to CSX wanting to use the facility at North Baltimore.
Chrisracer8903 wrote:Do the Willard and Garrett Subs already have enough congestion with the current traffic in/out of North Baltimore? How do they expect to handle new, current, and other traffic that bypass North Baltimore?
Granted "Pre One Plan" was also pre "great recession" but it was also pre oil, ethanol & North Baltimore, so the net difference probably isn't much.
cbehr91 wrote:
Chrisracer8903 wrote:Do the Willard and Garrett Subs already have enough congestion with the current traffic in/out of North Baltimore? How do they expect to handle new, current, and other traffic that bypass North Baltimore?
Chrisracer8903 wrote:Do the Willard and Garrett Subs already have enough congestion with the current traffic in/out of North Baltimore? How do they expect to handle new, current, and other traffic that bypass North Baltimore?
Pre ONE Plan it was busier.
Recession in 2001 caused a lot of traffic to dry up. Prior to 9/11 2001, I can remember it being a train past the Garrett depot every 15 to 20 minutes from 1800 to 0600. I spent 8 hrs one night trying to get from #3 main to the yard (required a zig-zag move) on Q509. There was just no window to give us the 30 minutes to make the move.
Nice thing about the "One Plan" was it was more scheduled. Prior to that, trains just kind of ran whenever they got enough cars together, and a couple engines, and we'll just run the train I guess.
