THE FOLKS AT THE PORT OF BALTIMORE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF DOUBLE STACKED TRAINS FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY, BUT FINALLY IT BECAME A REALITY IN OCTOBER. CRANES LOAD CONTAINERS ONTO RAIL ...
The Port of Baltimore now has the ability to double-stack shipping containers on trains in and out of the terminal. Port officials have discussed the thought for nearly 50 years, but the idea became a ...
Despite dredging a 50-foot channel and having a large public-private investment in the Seagirt Marine Terminal to provide a 50-foot berth and super-sized Panamax container cranes, more has to be done ...
BUILT IN THE 1890S, THE HOWARD STREET TUNNEL UNTIL NOW HAD BEEN A CHOKE POINT FOR FREIGHT TRAIN, RAIL TRAFFIC AND AN ACHILLES HEEL FOR THE PORT OF BALTIMORE. THE EXPANSION CHANGES EVERYTHING. THIS IS ...
Nearly 20 years ago, Gov. Parris N. Glendening had lunch with the chief executive of CSX to pitch the railroad chief on investing $40 million to expand the Howard Street Tunnel and another one in ...
India may become the third country in the world, after the United States and Mexico, to have double-stack container trains plying on its rail tracks with the railways considering introduction of such ...
Evacuation of cargo from the Port of Mombasa is set to improve following the launch of double-stack wagons on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line. Yesterday, the maiden double-stack train snaked its ...