NE Transrail, at the request of the STB, has filed an updated petition for exemption for Woburn/Wilmington transload facility to be built upon the former Olin Chemical property:
http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ ... 240974.pdf
Excerpt describing the project:
The Project will consist of three basic areas:
(1) The Northeast corner of the facility, which will contain tracks to unload center-beam and bulkhead flat cars to be transloaded onto trucks within a covered warehouse structure;
(2) The Center of the facility, which will contain interchange and transloading tracks allowing the unloading of tank and hopper cars; and
(3) The West side of the facility, which will contain interchange tracks and transloading tracks allowing the unloading of box cars into a cross-dock warehouse.
Here is a complete list of the construction activities that will take place at the contemplated Facility:
• 10,838' of new and rehabilitated track, adding to the 5727' of existing track to be acquired
• 1 mainline # 10 MBTA turnout;
• 23 Industry #8 turnouts;
• 12 Bumping posts;
• 6 HB Derails;
• Repair to the paving at the existing railroad crossings at Eames Street in the vicinity of the site;
• 65,000 square feet of at-grade warehouse with an enclosed truck loading area;
• 240,000 square feet of building (built in phases) as a cross-dock/warehouse transloading facility (60,000 of which would be temperature controlled) for
palleted and bagged products transloading from railcars to trucks;
• 1,135,000 square feet of paving for driveways for trucks to access the transloading buildings;
• Two truck scales and a rail scale to weigh trucks and railcars for purposes ofbilling and determine railcar loadings so as not to exceed rail load limitations;
• Site work, storm water control and utilities related to the foregoing;
• Transload racks, pumps and piping for transloading liquid materials;
• Storage tanks for liquid materials; and
• Water tanks for fire, safety and cleaning requirements
In addition, NET will acquire and operate several switch engine locomotives and track mobiles,
and miscellaneous rail maintenance equipment and transloading equipment (such as fork lifts,
container loaders, portable pumps and conveyored hoppers). (
Let's hope for expedited STB approval!