(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on February 22, 2011.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CSX Transportation began operating the big new intermodal terminal it built at North Baltimore, Ohio, near Toledo, which will be the western anchor of its National Gateway doublestack corridor.
The company will use the terminal to route box traffic from East Coast ports such as Baltimore, Md., into Midwest destinations of Chicago, St. Louis or other cities.
But it will also be a transfer hub for stack trains loaded on the West Coast and headed ultimately for Eastern cities as well as the Midwest, with CSX crews taking over trains from western railroads that would normally move slowly through the congested Chicago hub system. Marine container operations expect to save as much as two full days by using the Ohio terminal instead of breaking down stack trains at Chicago.
The hub employs 200 full-time workers.
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