Short Line Rail: Its Role in Intermodalism and Distribution

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Table 3.3: Metropolitan Areas with Short Line & Regional Railroads “Inside the Belt” Metropolitan Area Serving Railroads Chicago Belt Railway Company of Chicago Central Illinois Railroad Company, Inc. Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern Railroad Chicago Port Railroad Company Chicago Rail Link, LLC Chicago SouthShore & South Bend Railroad Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co. The Indiana Rail Road Company Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad Corp. Lake Michigan and Indiana Railroad Co. Manufacturers’ Junction Railway, LLC South Chicago & Indiana Harbor Railway Dallas-Fort Worth Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad Fort Worth & Western Railroad Denver Denver Rock Island Railroad Miami Florida East Coast Railway Minneapolis-St. Paul Minnesota Commercial Railway Co. Progressive Rail Inc. New York-Northeastern NJ East Jersey Railroad and Terminal Co. New York & Atlantic Railway New York New Jersey Rail LLC New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway NYCT Express Rail Port Jersey Railroad Co. Portland-Vancouver (OR-WA) Portland & Western Railroad Company Providence-Pawtucket-New Providence & Worcester Railroad Co. Haven-Meriden-Bridgeport- Milford Seattle Ballard Terminal Railroad Co., LLC Meeker Southern Railroad Tacoma Rail To illustrate the character of short line and regional carriers, we further focus on four metropolitan areas – Chicago, Miami, New York-Northeastern NJ and Portland, OR. These four areas provide a range of operating conditions, customers and potential opportunities. As will be seen, there are great differences among the railroads in terms of the miles operated, the number and types of customers served and products carried, as well as serving yards and Class I interchanges. Chicago 31
Of the short line and regional carriers that provide service to/in Chicago, there are essentially four that have operations clearly “within the belt” and serving multiple industries, either directly or through some form of rights. These are the Belt Railway Company of Chicago, Chicago Rail Link, Chicago SouthShore and South Bend and Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company. Belt Railway Company of Chicago (BRC) The Belt Railway is the largest intermediate switching terminal railroad in the United States. The BRC employs approximately 520 people. It has 28 miles of mainline route with more than 300 miles of switching tracks. This allows it to interchange with every railroad serving the Chicago rail hub. The Clearing Yard is located on the boundary between Chicago and Bedford Park, Illinois, just south of Chicago Midway International Airport. It is one of the largest hump classification facilities in the United States. Some 5.5 miles in length and covering 786 acres (3.2 km²), the yard supports more than 250 miles (400 km) of track. It has six main subdivisions: arrival, classification, and departure yards, in both eastbound and westbound directions. At the heart of the yard is the wicket-shaped tower that straddles the hump and from which are controlled the switches and retarders of both east- and westbound classification yards to either side of it. Using computer controls, the hump tower dispatches more than 8,400 rail cars per day. Operating around the clock, employees can classify between 40 and 50 miles of consists daily. The BRC is owned by several railroad operating companies: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. In addition, there are several railroads that connect with BRC: Chicago Rail Link, Chicago Short Line, Chicago SouthShore and South Bend, Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway, Indiana Harbor Belt Railway, I & M Rail Link, Manufacturers’ Junction Railway Company, Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation and Wisconsin & Southern Railroad. Chicago is the largest hub of the U.S. railroad industry, thus, very few transcon rail cars travel without coming through Chicago. Owner lines, as well as several other railroads, bring trains to the Belt Railway to be separated, classified, and re-blocked for cross-country departure. The Belt Railway directly serves approximately 70 industries. It also offers industrial and intermodal facility development opportunities. As would be expected, the BRC handles most commodity types carried by rail, either in cars or intermodal containers or trailers. As mentioned above, it interchanges with all the owner roads, plus nine non-owner roads. Clearly, a significant portion of its daily operations relate to separating, classifying and re- 32
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.Nebraska 57,734 33,681 17,569 108,
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areas described above will continue
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at least 10,000 trucks per day, inc
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impose an unacceptably high cost on
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measures of congestion typically fo
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(Note: Improved methodology and mor
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A third factor causing trips to be
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Another way to get more productivit
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these options, see Still Stuck in T
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and expertise to support the above
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commuting and other passenger trave
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focus is on highways, with six exis
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Figure 7.4: Corridors of the Future
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Because freight transportation dema
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increasingly squeezes service from
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will be transported and for what pr
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As previously described, when the F
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If the freight railroads cannot mai
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determines to some great extent the
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- means that, once on the move, the
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declining to become ever more depen
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For example, to reduce emissions an
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Furthermore, with the issue of biod
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climbs to the equivalent of the cur
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from water-cooled reactors. The 4S
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within that time period. While thes
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“franchise” and any perceived t
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Commission states “Federal policy
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Chapter 11: A Role for Large-Scale
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At the international, national and
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eyond the shipper and carrier frame
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planned or forecast scenarios and p
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exogenous inputs into this model fr
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they need better information and to
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Figure 11.2: “Four-Step” Proces
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friction factor. With limited surve
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Chapter 12: Freight Villages/Integr
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Freight Villages/Integrated Logisti
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the number of trucks coming into th
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customers within the geographically
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A possible solution for the second
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The options available for the servi
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servicing, or “passing” through
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Shared Rights of Way The option of
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Chapter 14: Metropolitan Area Railr
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Figure 14.1: Regional Collaboration
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include freight in this collaborati
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Transportation Planning Process SOU
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metropolitan area. For the smaller
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areas that had three or more interc
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Class I carriers, there are real is
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Acknowledgements The author wishes
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Daniel Beagan, Michael Fischer and
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Federal Highway Administration. The
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Paul Krugman. The Return of Depress
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Wesley J. Reisser, “A New Tri-Pol
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World Almanac Education Group, “W
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