I was looking at maps and satellite images of train yards in northern / northeast New Jersey. I could not believe all the intermodal traffic in this area. Between trains and trucks there must have millions of containers being moved constantly. Can't imagine how they could track them all.
there's a new intermodal container transfer facility (ITCF) being constructed at the old PRR
Greenville Yard
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
They track them the same way they track railcars, RFID tags on the containers.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Because NYC has very little freight infrastucture left I suspect much of the traffic is to/from NYC.
Joe Staten Island West
I think part of the situation is that there isn't a good way to implement intermodal yards that line up 'north-south', parallel to the water's edge, within the footprint of the Elizabeth intermodal terminal, so it makes sense to arrange the actual rail facilities as short-dray-to-rail yards at the right-angle-to-the-water orientation that so many of the original yards did in carferry times. This optimizes the technical benefits of the twistlock-lift system of marine containers in a particularly notable way.