OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific will launch domestic intermodal service between its Inland Empire terminal in California and its Global 2 terminal in Chicago on April 1.
“This service will provide access from the Los Angeles Basin’s busiest warehouse district direct to the heart of the Chicago metro, supplementing existing service between IEIT and Global 4,” UP said in a customer advisory this week.
The service between the Inland Empire and both Global 2 and Global 4 will be available to all domestic container shippers, the railroad says.
UP is offering priority service with four-day transit times eastbound and six-day transit times westbound, and standard service featuring six-day transit times. The services will run daily.
Whoa! about 2,000 miles over 96 hrs (4 days) is a blistering 21mph. Slow down yoUPee! Wow, such speedy service will be blowing the doors off the trucks any day now.
When the SF and CN were talking about a merger Rob Krebs took Hunter Harrison on a ride on a hot intermodal train. Hunter complained that 60-70 mph was too fast, they should slow the trains down to 50. Hunter of course was notoriously disinterested in the customers’ wants.
I think it is added, expanded service. Part of it is probably the fact that the Panama Canal expansion sent more containers to Gulf/East Coast ports and now the drought in Panama, lack of water for the canal is now sending more containers back to Port of LA/Long Beach.
This wasn’t happening already?