Need a lift?
| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Economy |
| Union Pacific Trains Handling Peak Holiday Shipping |
| 2004-11-05 |
| Union Pacific is doing its part to ensure the nation's peak holiday shipping season meets with Santa's expectations. North America's largest railroad is operating on demand at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and has been satisfying demand since May of this year. To illustrate the volume of port containers moving on Union Pacific, five intermodal trains would be required to handle the arrival of a vessel carrying 2,250 40-foot containers. It is the dock operator's responsibility to unload and transfer containers to waiting trains -- and the railroad's responsibility to ensure cars, locomotives and crews are in place. Most containers arriving at the ports that are not processed on the dock are driven to Union Pacific's ICTF terminal. At ICTF, trains have been running on demand since Labor Day. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #5 Ship. You bring up a very good point I did not even think off until you mentioned it. Maybe rail companies (stocks) would be the way to go since the airlines & trucking are thrown into the Transportation Index. Very good point Ship...keep them coming! ;) Need a lift? |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-05 6:58:40 PM |
| #4 If UP wants to do something about their traffic problem (I will assume you mean the old SP Sunset Route), they need to do something about Englewood Yard in Houston, and double track as much of the Sunset Route as possible (preferably all or most of it, like SF's LA/CHI "racetrack"). |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-05 3:22:05 PM |
| #3 Boy, I hope UP has finally ironed out their gridlock. UPS and some other major shippers have been getting very irate with the delays caused by increased traffic and moving some shipments back to trucks. I posted some months ago about the increased hiring railroads have been doing to meet demand and replace upcoming retirees. UP is also ordering 315 new locomotives to upgrade their fleet. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-11-05 11:24:21 AM |
| #2 Mark you going long on the transportation sector? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-05 9:52:21 AM |
| #1 Congrats to the UP. This was a close run thing. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-05 9:18:56 AM |