by Sir Ray
Today (18 July 2012) Newsday story (probably truncated to non-subscribers).
Key Points of interest snipped (the article is rather long):
"A 10-month-old private rail venture is taking thousands of trucks off the Long Island Expressway in a region that is among the nation's most reliant on road freight."
"In its first nine months of operation, the terminal received 735 railcars of stone, 22 of flour and 12 of biodiesel. With one railcar able to carry the amount of four truckloads for those commodities, the terminal operators said the loads replaced 3,076 long-haul trucks on the LIE."
"A second truck-rail yard is to start receiving goods for two companies operating out of the Town of Riverhead's Calverton Enterprise Park this fall, town officials said."
"Right now we bring in about 40 percent of our flour by railcar," said Richard Wenner [of Wenner Bread in Islip], whose family founded the company. "Once we analyze the situation some more . . . our goal is to move to 90 percent."
This is a bit of a surprise maybe:
"The Yaphank site operators have their sights on further growth and recently bought another 92 acres east of the yard. They are seeking state and federal assistance to expand their rail track to serve about 400,000 square feet of refrigerated and dry storage warehousing to open next year.
Refrigerated warehouses, combined with the purchase of refrigerated railcars, would broaden the range of products the terminal can receive and open the way for the depot to start exporting local goods off the Island,"
TrinCools to Yaphank!
A comment I find amusing:
"Terrific plan! Now we can get back to producing food to fill those cars and ship them out again! Refrigerated railroad freight will let us ship produce much cheaper and much faster. The hardest part about producing anything on Long Island has always been getting it out to the markets and still having something left over for profit! We may actually be able to revive our commercial oyster and scallop industry! Maybe even potatoes- thousands and thousands of working class jobs."
Not sure where this guy plans to grow those potatoes - plow under the Vineyards and Horsefarms and McMansions of the East end maybe?
Key Points of interest snipped (the article is rather long):
"A 10-month-old private rail venture is taking thousands of trucks off the Long Island Expressway in a region that is among the nation's most reliant on road freight."
"In its first nine months of operation, the terminal received 735 railcars of stone, 22 of flour and 12 of biodiesel. With one railcar able to carry the amount of four truckloads for those commodities, the terminal operators said the loads replaced 3,076 long-haul trucks on the LIE."
"A second truck-rail yard is to start receiving goods for two companies operating out of the Town of Riverhead's Calverton Enterprise Park this fall, town officials said."
"Right now we bring in about 40 percent of our flour by railcar," said Richard Wenner [of Wenner Bread in Islip], whose family founded the company. "Once we analyze the situation some more . . . our goal is to move to 90 percent."
This is a bit of a surprise maybe:
"The Yaphank site operators have their sights on further growth and recently bought another 92 acres east of the yard. They are seeking state and federal assistance to expand their rail track to serve about 400,000 square feet of refrigerated and dry storage warehousing to open next year.
Refrigerated warehouses, combined with the purchase of refrigerated railcars, would broaden the range of products the terminal can receive and open the way for the depot to start exporting local goods off the Island,"
TrinCools to Yaphank!
A comment I find amusing:
"Terrific plan! Now we can get back to producing food to fill those cars and ship them out again! Refrigerated railroad freight will let us ship produce much cheaper and much faster. The hardest part about producing anything on Long Island has always been getting it out to the markets and still having something left over for profit! We may actually be able to revive our commercial oyster and scallop industry! Maybe even potatoes- thousands and thousands of working class jobs."
Not sure where this guy plans to grow those potatoes - plow under the Vineyards and Horsefarms and McMansions of the East end maybe?
