The US is getting a new Notorious BIG, this time on the West Coast
Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Ron Reiring
American rail freight company BNSF Railway is planning to build a new facility in Barstow, in southern California. The Barstow International Gateway (BIG) will allow for the direct transfer of containers from ships to rail at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. “We’re aiming to start construction by 2025, with a potential open date of 2027,” Lena Kent, BNSF General Director of Public Affairs, told RailFreight.com. The total cost of the project will be around 1,5 billion euros.
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Clients, ware owners, however, severely are plagued by railway standards no longer optimal.
A New Old Railway urgently is needed!
By nature short of as well redundancy and resilency- and even worse not robust – now infrastructure need a decisive upgrading.
Broken rails shall not remain cause number one for derailments, etc., etc.
Quality pays and at transports, now low risk and safe “eta” is high quality!
(At main lines, Shift can be executed – and paid for – within 10 years…)