Today's NewsWire has an article about the City of Rochelle building a transload and intermodal facility to make up for UP closing their Global III intermodal facility.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/rochelle-ill-holds-groundbreaking-for-intermodal-facility-at-transload-center/
Is UP's facility intact? Did the City try to acquire it from UP? If UP closed it to simplify operations, they why would they use the new facility, at least for intermodal? Does the City even have any assurances that BNSF would use the new facility?
Including a transload facility in the development can make it appealing for local freights on both roads serve it for non-containerized freight. A transload facility seems to be the modern equivalent of a team track and freight house.
MidlandMike Today's NewsWire has an article about the City of Rochelle building a transload and intermodal facility to make up for UP closing their Global III intermodal facility. https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/rochelle-ill-holds-groundbreaking-for-intermodal-facility-at-transload-center/ Is UP's facility intact? Did the City try to acquire it from UP? If UP closed it to simplify operations, they why would they use the new facility, at least for intermodal? Does the City even have any assurances that BNSF would use the new facility?
Global 3 is still there, but UP only uses it as a block swapping yard now as I understand things. Some trains seem to terminate there with their blocks picked up by other trains or by transfer runs from Chicago. No lifts are done.
- Ed Kyle
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