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CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 8:49 am
by Saturnalia
http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2013 ... minal.html
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.
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Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:50 am
by Huelsy'sTrainBlog
Should be interesting to watch.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 4:34 pm
by MSchwiebert
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
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:09 pm
by JoJames
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.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 11:10 pm
by MagnumForce
Let's get the new Willard rumor going again.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:45 am
by Racer
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?
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 6:07 am
by JoJames
JoJames wrote: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.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 7:52 am
by Typhoon
Chrisracer8903 wrote:Do the Willard and Garrett Subs already have enough congestion with the current traffic in/out of North Baltomre
No they do not. Neither sub in anywhere near capacity.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 1:25 pm
by cbehr91
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.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:46 pm
by MSchwiebert
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?
Pre ONE Plan it was busier.
Re: CSX North Baltimore - Expansion Coming?
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:52 pm
by CSX_CO
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?
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.
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