Norfolk Southern Corporation Plans $112 Million Intermodal Terminal in Alabama

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE:NSC) (Norfolk, Virginia) is planning to construct a $112 million intermodal terminal in McCalla, Alabama.

Plans involve the construction of an intermodal terminal on a 316-acre site that will be able to handle 165,000 truck trailers and shipping containers annually, as well as transfer shipping containers between trucks and trains. Approximately six intermodal trains per day will service the facility.

The facility will include three loading tracks and 1,440 paved trailer/container parking spaces. Roughly 290 trailers per day are expected to enter the facility, and 20 trailers will exit. The facility will see 117 bobtails (tractors without trailers) enter and exit per day. The site's proximity to the Jefferson Metropolitan Park at McCalla offers expanded logistics, as well as warehousing and distribution opportunities, thus making it an excellent site selection for an intermodal facility. A general contractor is expected to be selected in the spring of 2010 with construction anticipated to begin in the summer of 2010. Overall completion is slated for the fall of 2011. Operations are expected to begin in 2012.

HNTB Corporation (Tallahassee, Florida) was selected to provide architectural and engineering services for the terminal.

Norfolk Southern Corporation is a publicly traded stock corporation and the holding company for Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I railroad system. Founded in 1982, the company offers freight train services. As of 2008, the company had revenues of more than $3 billion and consisted of approximately 31,000 employees.

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