Norfolk Southern is investing in projects to expand intermodal transportation options for central Ohio shippers. This includes completing the Heartland Corridor project in August 2010 to allow double-stacked container trains between Columbus and East Coast ports. Norfolk Southern is also expanding the intermodal facility in Columbus to increase capacity and efficiency. When combined with efficient interchanges in Chicago, this will provide central Ohio shippers with intermodal service to major markets across North America.
2. Norfolk Southern’s Intermodal Network Ayer Buffalo Albany Detroit Livernois Delray Chicago 47th Street 63rd Street Landers Calumet Ashland Ave NY/NJ Croxton Erail Elizabeth Marine Terminal NYCT PNCT Taylor Toledo Bethlehem Cleveland Harrisburg/ Rutherford Morrisville/Navy Yard Pittsburgh Columbus Baltimore Decatur Front Royal Cincinnati Gest Street Sharonville Kansas City St Louis Norfolk Norfolk Int’l Terminal Portsmouth Marine Terminal Newport News Marine Terminal APM Terminal Georgetown Louisville Buechel Appliance Park Greensboro Memphis Charlotte Huntsville Atlanta Austell Inman Dallas Birmingham Charleston/ Marine Terminal NS Intermodal Network Intermodal Network Haulage Extensions Intermodal Terminals On-Dock Access Savannah Mason ICTF Port Wentworth Shreveport Meridian Jacksonville New Orleans Titusville Ft Lauderdale Miami
3. Service, Price and Options In today’s environment, shippers are considering service, price and routing options in their supply chains Increasing demand for higher quality, truck-like intermodal services Routing Options involve International and Domestic Traffic West Coast Ports East Coast / Panama Canal vessel services Domestic services for all regions of the US
6. 4 Overhead Cranes / 1 Sideloader Equipment Maintenance Building Annual Lift Capacity 250,000 4 Support Tracks (14,000’) 3 Pad Tracks (9,300’) Expanded Leads to/from Mainline Neighboring Lots are owned by CRAA and may be developed for CY facilities, etc. High Speed Automated Gate System 125 Acres – Expandable up to 300 acres 1,888 Wheeled Parking Spots 408 Stacked Spaces (2 high) Columbus Rickenbacker
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8. 15,000 acres of existing or planned development , Over 39 million sq ft of existing development
14. Detroit Chicago Columbus Heartland Corridor Cincinnati Pritchard Norfolk Roanoke The Heartland Corridor and Heartland Secondary Projects Public-Private Partnership The Heartland Corridor and Secondary Projects First Trains September 9, 2010
15. Heartland Corridor Secondary Projects Columbus - Cincinnati Clearance Project 5 mainline clearance projects between Columbus and Cincinnati Estimated Completion Q2 2011 Allows for double stack service between Columbus and Florida and the Southeast Ports Toledo Yard and Rickenbacker Track Expansion Addition of support tracks will allow blocks of traffic to be switched between trains Estimated Completion Q2 2011 Improved flow through Toledo for Columbus traffic to/from Chicago and NY
16. Chicago Interchange NS inherited Ashland Ave. Yard in Chicago in the Conrail transaction Provides highly efficient connectivity to western carriers The CREATE projects will significantly build upon the Ashland Ave. interchanges by improving approaches to the facility on both ends Brighton Park Interlocking Englewood Flyover The Indiana Gateway Project will improve the NS mainline in and out of Chicago NS has two options for routing trains between Chicago and Columbus
18. Pacific Northwest Points Northern New Jersey Chicago Columbus Rickenbacker Pacific Southwest Points and NorCal Norfolk and Norfolk Ports Current and Potential NS Intermodal Services For Central Ohio Charleston and Charleston Ports Savannah and Savannah Ports Jacksonville and Jacksonville Ports Miami and South Florida
19. Creating Options for Central Ohio The Heartland Corridor will be completed in August, but NS continues to invest in projects that will leverage the benefits of the Heartland Corridor for Central Ohio NS has sufficient and expandable Intermodal terminal capacity in the heart of Central Ohio NS provides multiple options for efficient Intermodal services to points East, West and South Double stack routes to New York/New Jersey and Norfolk Efficient interchange in Chicago to reach points West Potential to reach Florida and the SE ports
Editor's Notes
Aside from the two larger and most obvious projects, The Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal and the Heartland Corridor Clearances, there are a number of smaller, but just as critical projects that NS is engaged in that will bring numerous benefits to shippers in Central Ohio.These include: The CREATE and Indiana Gateway projects, which will help to further improve the already efficient interchange of traffic between NS and western US rail carriers The secondary projects associated with the Heartland Corridor, which includes additional support tracks at Toledo and Rickenbacker, clearing of the NS line between Columbus and Cincinnati, The introduction of additional domestic services to/from Columbus which will increase Central Ohio’s role in that market segment A grain transload facility that will allow for the direct loading of Containers of grain to rail, thus benefiting Ohio farmers competing in the global market
Aside from the two larger and most obvious projects, The Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal and the Heartland Corridor Clearances, there are a number of smaller, but just as critical projects that NS is engaged in that will bring numerous benefits to shippers in Central Ohio.These include: The CREATE and Indiana Gateway projects, which will help to further improve the already efficient interchange of traffic between NS and western US rail carriers The secondary projects associated with the Heartland Corridor, which includes additional support tracks at Toledo and Rickenbacker, clearing of the NS line between Columbus and Cincinnati, The introduction of additional domestic services to/from Columbus which will increase Central Ohio’s role in that market segment A grain transload facility that will allow for the direct loading of Containers of grain to rail, thus benefiting Ohio farmers competing in the global market