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Rail News: Norfolk Southern Railway
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. By
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Norfolk Southern Corp. assisted 71 businesses in locating or expanding facilities along the Class I's rail lines last year. The projects represented an investment worth $4 billion by NS customers, which are expected to generate more than 50,000 carloads of new rail traffic annually, according to an NS press release."We were pleased to see a steady stream of manufacturing projects and a markedly stronger portfolio overall near the end of the year, and that is an encouraging indicator for activity in the coming year," said Jason Reiner, assistant vice president industrial development. "Sixteen manufacturing-related projects contributed nearly $2 billion in new investment by customers and 3,000 new jobs during 2016."NS works with state and local economic development authorities on projects involving site location and development of infrastructure to connect customers to its rail system. The railroad also provides free and confidential facility location services, including industrial park planning, site layout, track design, and supply chain analysis, NS officials said.During the past 10 years, the company's industrial development department has assisted in the location and expansion of 945 facilities representing an investment of more than $60 billion. Contact Progressive Railroading editorial staff. More News from 1/27/2017
Norfolk Southern Corp. assisted 71 businesses in locating or expanding facilities along the Class I's rail lines last year. The projects represented an investment worth $4 billion by NS customers, which are expected to generate more than 50,000 carloads of new rail traffic annually, according to an NS press release."We were pleased to see a steady stream of manufacturing projects and a markedly stronger portfolio overall near the end of the year, and that is an encouraging indicator for activity in the coming year," said Jason Reiner, assistant vice president industrial development. "Sixteen manufacturing-related projects contributed nearly $2 billion in new investment by customers and 3,000 new jobs during 2016."NS works with state and local economic development authorities on projects involving site location and development of infrastructure to connect customers to its rail system. The railroad also provides free and confidential facility location services, including industrial park planning, site layout, track design, and supply chain analysis, NS officials said.During the past 10 years, the company's industrial development department has assisted in the location and expansion of 945 facilities representing an investment of more than $60 billion. Contact Progressive Railroading editorial staff. More News from 1/27/2017
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Parks Canada and Canadian Pacific Railway have completed their Canada-CP Grizzly Bear Research Initiative and will now institute measures aimed at reducing railway related risks to grizzly bears.
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Union Pacific achieved its best annual employee-safety rate in 2016, improving on the record set in 2015 and making 2016 the safest year in the Class 1's 154-year history.
The company's employee reportable injury rate, measure by injuries for every 200,000 employee hours worked, declined 14 percent from 0.87 in 2015 to 0.75 in 2016. In 2015, the employee reportable injury rate improved 11 percent from 2014.
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The Foothill Gold Line light-rail extension from Glendora to Montclair will begin construction in October 2017 and take two years longer to complete according to a new schedule.
The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority (construction authority) Board of Directors approved an updated workplan and schedule for the 12.3-mile extension at its January 25 meeting. The updated schedule is based on detailed constructability reviews completed late last year on the project's draft advanced conceptual engineering (ACE) documents.
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BNSF announced six new rail-servedPhoto – bsnf.com
BNSF announced six new rail-servedPhoto – bsnf.com
BNSF Railway Co. yesterday announced six new "certified sites" that are optimal for customer development along the Class I's network.
The new sites are at AgriTech Park in Great Falls, Mont.; Ameripointe Logistics Park in Ardmore, Okla.; Central New Mexico Rail Park in Los Lunas, N.M.; Commerce Center of Southeast Iowa in Middletown, Iowa; Gallup Energy Logistics Park in Gallup, N.M.; and John W. Kelsey Business and Technology Park in Greenville, Ill.
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Rail News Home BNSF Railway January 2017 Rail News: BNSF Railway
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. ByThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Associate EditorUnited Sugars Corp. and American Crystal Sugar Co. in November 2016 unveiled a $44 million bulk sugar storage and transfer facility on BNSF Railway Co.'s network in Montgomery, Ill. Located 45 miles west of Chicago, the facility is in an ideal spot for reaching United Sugars' large customer base in the Chicagoland and Great Lakes areas, said BNSF Director of Ethanol and Bulk Foods Keeley Motley at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) winter conference earlier this month.In addition, the site is well situated for sugar shipments arriving from the Red River Valley at the Minnesota-North Dakota border."If you're loading the rail cars in Minnesota and North Dakota, you're already west of Chicago, … so you're not having to go further than necessary," Motley told attendees at the conference, which ran Jan. 11-12 in Oak Brook, Ill. The 20-acre site includes a 26,000-square-foot storage dome, which can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar. The shipper expects to move almost twice as much sugar to customers each year.BNSF officials anticipate that the facility will lead to a 10 percent reduction in the cycle time for shipping sugar, Motley said.BNSF trains operate the long-haul leg of the journey, while Burlington Junction Railway provides direct service into the facility.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co.
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. By
Before the storage dome was built, the railroad shipped sugar directly to Chicago-area receivers that didn't always have storage space for the product. That meant rail car cars could sit idle waiting to be unloaded.
"Any time that the rail car is sitting at the receiver means that's time it's not back at the plant getting ready for its next load," Motley said.
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Rail News Home BNSF Railway January 2017 Rail News: BNSF Railway
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. ByThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Associate EditorUnited Sugars Corp. and American Crystal Sugar Co. in November 2016 unveiled a $44 million bulk sugar storage and transfer facility on BNSF Railway Co.'s network in Montgomery, Ill. Located 45 miles west of Chicago, the facility is in an ideal spot for reaching United Sugars' large customer base in the Chicagoland and Great Lakes areas, said BNSF Director of Ethanol and Bulk Foods Keeley Motley at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) winter conference earlier this month.In addition, the site is well situated for sugar shipments arriving from the Red River Valley at the Minnesota-North Dakota border."If you're loading the rail cars in Minnesota and North Dakota, you're already west of Chicago, … so you're not having to go further than necessary," Motley told attendees at the conference, which ran Jan. 11-12 in Oak Brook, Ill. The 20-acre site includes a 26,000-square-foot storage dome, which can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar. The shipper expects to move almost twice as much sugar to customers each year.BNSF officials anticipate that the facility will lead to a 10 percent reduction in the cycle time for shipping sugar, Motley said.BNSF trains operate the long-haul leg of the journey, while Burlington Junction Railway provides direct service into the facility.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co.
The storage dome can hold 60,000 metric tons of sugar.Photo – American Crystal Sugar Co. By
Before the storage dome was built, the railroad shipped sugar directly to Chicago-area receivers that didn't always have storage space for the product. That meant rail car cars could sit idle waiting to be unloaded.
"Any time that the rail car is sitting at the receiver means that's time it's not back at the plant getting ready for its next load," Motley said.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AAR President and CEO Statement on Appointment of Ann Begeman as
Acting Chairman of Surface Transportation Board
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jan. 25, 2017 – Edward R. Hamberger, president and CEO of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), issued the following statement on today's appointment of Ann Begeman as Acting Chair of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board:
"The freight rail industry congratulates Ann Begeman on being named Acting Chair of the STB and is confident in Ms. Begeman's ability to lead the Board. We hope Acting Chairman Begeman will continue to heed our request to pause all major rulemaking – most notably its misguided forced access proposal – until the Board is equipped with five, full time Board members."