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Union Pacific Railroad has big plans for its Los Angeles Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF). The Class I aims to transform the 20-year old facility into the “most environmentally modern and efficient rail port in North America,” according to a prepared statement.
UP plans to spend about $300 million during several years to double the ICTF’s capacity and install new equipment, including 39 electric-powered, rail-mounted cantilever gantry cranes that will enable the railroad to replace 10 diesel gantry cranes and remove 71 of 73 diesel truck tractors.
The Class I will stack containers under the newly designed cantilever cranes to reduce space required for container storage, create a larger buffer zone between the rail yard and surrounding community, and eliminate the need to increase the facility’s size.
UP also plans to install a hooded lighting system to direct light away from adjacent neighborhoods and an automatic gate system featuring optical character recognition to speed in- and out-gate movements. In addition, the railroad will add gate lanes to reduce truck dwell times about 50 percent and replace switchers with “Gen-Set” locomotives to cut air emissions.
4/2/2007
Rail News: Rail Industry Trends
UP to modernize L.A. container transfer facility
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Union Pacific Railroad has big plans for its Los Angeles Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF). The Class I aims to transform the 20-year old facility into the “most environmentally modern and efficient rail port in North America,” according to a prepared statement.
UP plans to spend about $300 million during several years to double the ICTF’s capacity and install new equipment, including 39 electric-powered, rail-mounted cantilever gantry cranes that will enable the railroad to replace 10 diesel gantry cranes and remove 71 of 73 diesel truck tractors.
The Class I will stack containers under the newly designed cantilever cranes to reduce space required for container storage, create a larger buffer zone between the rail yard and surrounding community, and eliminate the need to increase the facility’s size.
UP also plans to install a hooded lighting system to direct light away from adjacent neighborhoods and an automatic gate system featuring optical character recognition to speed in- and out-gate movements. In addition, the railroad will add gate lanes to reduce truck dwell times about 50 percent and replace switchers with “Gen-Set” locomotives to cut air emissions.
