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10/23/2023
R. J. Corman Switching Co. LLC, a subsidiary of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, has been awarded a contract to lease the Central Appalachia Inland Port at Prichard (CAIPP) in Wayne County, West Virginia.
A 65-acre facility at the southern end of Prichard, the inland port is owned by the Wayne County Commission and designed to transfer containers between rail cars and trucks.
R. J. Corman plans to use a portion of the site as a rail-car repair hub. Its contract took effect Oct. 16.
In additional phases, the company will seek to expand operations to grow services, R. J. Corman officials said in a news release.
Norfolk Southern Railway serves the CAIPP. The site was developed years ago by the now-defunct West Virginia Public Port Authority on land donated by NS. The intermodal facility shut down a few years ago for lack of business, The Herald-Dispatch reported in February.
R.J. Corman was chosen after the commission, Marshall University College of Business and Economic Research and the Huntington Area Development Council created a plan for the site.