BUCKEYE, Ariz. — Union Pacific will provide rail service to the new Buckeye Industrial Rail Park, which recently saw its first tenant, Rehrig Pacific Co., break ground on its manufacturing plant.
The 260-acre industrial park is located 40 miles west of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport and near Interstate 10. Rehrig Pacific’s plant will manufacture reusuable plastic containers made from new and recycled resin. The park is zoned for distribution, logistics, heavy manufacturing, and technology development. UP rail service will begin in spring 2024.
“Rehrig Pacific’s groundbreaking represents the first of many exciting opportunities to serve this new industrial park,” UP’s Shelly Huckfeldt, manager-industrial development, said in a press release. “This development will be shovel ready – with utilities and rail already available onsite, future users can quickly take advantage of the competitive benefits of being a rail-served facility.”
More on the rail park is available at the Buckeye Industrial Rail Park and Union Pacific websites.
Harrison beat me to it, I have wondered if UP has left a lot of business on the table from not having a better LA to PX connection.
Well basically they are the only game in town, and unlike BNSF who thinks they can pick and choose who they will do business with, UP is glad to make use of an opportunity to grow the business no matter how it ends up…
You’d think with UP’s operational woes on the Sunset Route that opening the line back up would be done just as a relief valve.
Maybe revive the Phoenix to Yuma line if the trains serving the park ever come from the west.
Isn’t that the line that is often referred to as the “Peavine?”