INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Rail Road has begun construction of a new container yard at its Senate Avenue Intermodal Terminal, the company announced Friday.
The 6-acre facility connects directly to a recent terminal expansion completed in December 2022, and is built to support more than 1,000 empty containers and an equivalent number of chassis.
“This project is another step to support our international Intermodal business, providing flexibility to our shippers while creating capacity for steamship lines to position their containers near the customer,” Indiana Rail Road CEO Dewayne Swindall said in a press release. “The synergies created at this facility further strengthens the supply chain system supporting the agricultural export markets in Central Indiana and the greater Ohio Valley area.”
The container yard is slated to be completed May 1.
The legacy of Tom Hoback continues.
With CSX withdrawing from intermodal forwarding to Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and forcing customers to dray out of Chicago, I wonder what impact that has had on this service to Indianapolis. (Yes, I know CSX owns 95% of INDR)
Technically, a pre-classified container block out of Prince Rupert should beat the pants off of trucks. If CSX wasnt so lazy to find return container biz.
Too bad INDR lost the Louisville/Monon route, that would have made an interesting intermodal transfer point. But that would have drained off Queensgate/Clearing business for CSX.