Carload Considerations: Making Class I carload business near major interchanges work

Carload Considerations: Making Class I carload business near major interchanges work

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern power lead a merchandise freight west near Geneva, Ill., in the early morning hours of May 10, 2014. How many of the train’s 100-plus cars were on other railroads east of Chicago the night before? Chase Gunnoe A Midwestern grain co-op west of Chicago has an abundance of soybeans piled high into silos with a processing plant eager to buy them across the border in Indiana. It’s a 300-mile haul. The company leases…