Norfolk Southern eyes Birmingham area for major hub

[SilverSurfer]

This is a must read. 16,000 jobs will be created at the cost of over 1 million jobs...depending upon how many of these trucks removed from the interstates are team operated. Also, take note of the path of the rail line. Any thoughts come to mind regarding shuttering all the rest areas on I-81 in VA?

Take notice brother and sister truckers...this is a very real possibility. Our gov't is very aggressive about rail.

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Norfolk Southern eyes Birmingham area for major hub

Norfolk Southern is scouting sites in the Birmingham area to build a terminal as part of a rail corridor stretching from the Northeast to New Orleans. The project could mean thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars in investment for the area.

Norfolk Southern is seeking incentives and is talking with state and local officials about the facility, seen as a key element in the company's $2 billion Crescent Corridor expansion. The company believes as many as 8,000 jobs could be created in the area as a distribution hub develops around the project.

"We are certainly looking in the Birmingham area for constructing a new terminal that will hopefully be part of a larger logistics hub," said Rudy Husband, spokesman for Norfolk Southern. "Intermodal terminals in and of themselves have some jobs, but the real job growth is the surrounding companies that are involved in logistics and distribution."

Ted vonCannon, president of the Metropolitan Development Board, said his organization has been working for nearly three years to land the intermodal terminal, where trucking containers would be loaded onto train cars.

(full article)

 

[RickG]

More jobs will be lost when containers are shipped on ships along the coasts and on barges on inland waterways . That will happen much sooner than this rail system could be planned and built . Shipping by water is far more economical than shipping by rail .

 

[rebel]

Well I guess we can stop the training schools now. At least stop the gov't paying for them.
I thought the comments after the article were interesting, too.

 

[SilverSurfer]

More jobs will be lost when containers are shipped on ships along the coasts and on barges on inland waterways . That will happen much sooner than this rail system could be planned and built . Shipping by water is far more economical than shipping by rail .

Are you sure about the time-frame? You may want to do some research about this.

A large percentage of cargo imports has already been diverted from our eastern ports, and what you're stating here actually would involve that freight to return to the eastern ports to be distributed throughout the waterways to reach the central and northern regions. The realities of delivery time-frames would never be viable for this to be economical for corporations dealing with on-time deliveries.

I'm curious to know where your information regarding the use of barges comes from. Have you any supporting information warranting this belief?

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