Western Railroad Discussion > UP New yard?

A friend of mine has a son-in-law that works for UP in Dallas and he told me that UP is building a big new industraial area on 3,000 acres on the North side of Dallas someplace. Can somebody around there tell me what and where UP exactly building? My friend was just down there for 2 weeks and came back and told me this as he knows I'm a UP fan but he don't know just what and where it is. His son-in-law is involved with intermodel some how but don't understand what it is exactly. I'm guessing that it's a new intermodel yard. upkpfan

This is probably and industrial development which includes a large transload warehouse for plastic pellets from the Texas Gulf Coast.

These developments are along the same line as BNSF Logistic Parks

Dale Smith

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This may be what is being referred to:


https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4404400,4404400#msg-4404400

It will be in south east Dallas .

What drives this is the availability of empty ocean containers in the Dallas area.

It reduces the cost of reposition of ocean containers to the Gulf Coast. Ocean containers have been moved to the Houston area for years for loading but the expected production of plastic pellets is very large and the economics work better moving product in hopper cars to Dallas and then package and move to west coast for export.

There are also packaging facilities being built in SoCal

Dale Smith

It also frees up the Houston terminal from cars being switched back and forth between the production plants or storage and the local export packers.

mearsksealand Wrote:
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> What drives this is the availability of empty
> ocean containers in the Dallas area.
>
> It reduces the cost of reposition of ocean
> containers to the Gulf Coast. Ocean containers
> have been moved to the Houston area for years for
> loading but the expected production of plastic
> pellets is very large and the economics work
> better moving product in hopper cars to Dallas and
> then package and move to west coast for export.
>
> There are also packaging facilities being built in
> SoCal
>
> Dale Smith

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Hey guys, thank you for the info.I appreciate it very much. upkpfan