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GEORGIA ROAD ANNOUNCES NEW QUICKSILVER COLD CUBED SERVICE

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ATLANTA--With the close of the annual stockholder's meeting at Georgia Road's Spring Street headquarters in downtown Atlanta, GA, officials with the railroad announced that Georgia Road’s intermodal arm, QuickSilver Intermodal, was expanding tis temperature controlled operations by entering the domestic container market. The service, branded as QuickSilver Cubed [COLD]3 would phase in operations by placing 350 CIMC 53’ Refrigerated Domestic Containers into service in its principal intermodal lanes linking Florida, Virginia, Washington, California, and New York through its system and joint run-through corridors.

"We are ecited to announce the roll out of the new QuickSilver Cold Cubed service in an effort to capture market share in express and time sensitive perishable freight. This is a natural advancing step from current QuickSilver Cold Optima Roadrailer Service, which introduced fast-on and fast-off highway Reefer equipped RoadRailer Z-van trailers on accelerated schedule Intermodal trains,” Stephen J Greenwood, CEO of Georgia Road Transportation explained in his third quarter open call to investors. “We continue to see steady growth with our Optima Service Roadrailers, but continue to find customers who for one reason or another want or need containerized shipment. Providing these new CIMC mechanical containers gives our customers the ultimate flexibility with no need for special handling or switching with tradition Mechanical Refrigerator railcars or even our very flexible RoadRailers.”

Industry pundits see the investment as positive with growth potential. “Georgia Road wowed the industry in the early 2000s with the addition of refrigerated RoadRailer service. It gave them access to perishable and time/temperature sensitive freight it could have only imagined with its use of only railcars at the time”, notes Dean Howard Phillips, head of Auburn University’s School of Transportation. “This newest move allows QuickSilver Intermodal and owner Georgia Road to reach past its own routes to any point in North America. The potential of moving perishables in a single move from one side of the country to another in third and fourth day service gives them the ability to compete with trucking, yet at a markedly lower cost.” The service is as much a logistical roll-out as it is that of introducing the shiny new containers to service. Perishables and other time sensitives haveto be tracked, delays foreseen and avoided, containers both fueled and repaired in transit and terminal dwell time reduced to near zero. The
The new agreement, set to swing into full motion by Thanksgiving 2017 places free-roaming container terminal services bases in hub cities such as Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans. At outlying Intermediate points, containers travelling via Quicksilver Optima trains can be serviced and repaired without delay. The Quicksilver trains incorporate mixes of traditional TOFC/COFC, doublestack and roadrailer technology on accelerated and frequent scheduling aimed at highway comparable transit times.



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A few recent events on the Georgia Road. ScaleTrains reefer containers are scheduled for paint in the next few weeks. Cryogenic boxcars are being converted at Stephens Railcar to mechanical reefer configuration. Georgia Road is also taking delivery of its TGX Program SD75ME-CAT rebuilds as evidenced by the class unit. SRCX 7550. The 7550 is technically a demonstrator with its SRCX marks, but took Georgia Road paint (with the addition of a few non standard logos for sales media) It began life as a CNW SD50 but only the trucks and cab give away its less than stellar parts donor. This is a rebuilder version of a SD70M-2 and reaches up to Tier 3 emissions with its CAT primemover.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/17 22:13 by georgiaroad.

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A parting shot of the 7550 with the relocated dynamics and SD80 type radiator and the CAT rear seated exhaust. Also presented is the concept for the full Revolution Series demonstrator scheme. With Tier 4 now in force, it will not be long before the Revolution Series passes the torch to the Pinnacle of TGX Program development. The Pinnacle Series scheme salutes the original Series One units that started the TGX Program over 15 years ago by providing the first rebuilder Tier 1 compliant locomotive.

Georgia Road
"Driven to Service"

H in AL

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Wow, you're managing a fine railroad there. Any chance of buying a Container decal there?

Rick

Outstanding!!!!!!

No no! No cold! I left that behind way up in Syracuse NY! It's almost as bad as Canada - maybe worse with Lake Effect snow.

Hah hah, sorry - interesting designs there.

Your Railroad is just Fantastic, and very believable. Great job. Love seeing your equipment.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

electromac Wrote:
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> Outstanding!!!!!!

I agree....

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georgiaroad - Wonderful work! Love to see your work here on TO.

Paul Brennecke
Golden, CO

Very cool!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

Beautiful......I have been doing a few similar things for the 2017 PC....but nothing like your fine work....nicely done and eminently believable....you might want to look into some Tier 4 EMD's with the T4 710 engines aboard....and urea tanks.

Keep up the fine work....

Bob