New intermodal terminal for Norfolk Southern

The terminal is part of the railroad’s Crescent Corridor initiative to establish a high-speed intermodal rail route between the US mid-South and Gulf Coast and the Northeast.

The US$129m facility in which freight will be transferred between truck and rail will occupy a 570 acre (230 ha) site and is expected to open in January 2012.

Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor initiative is a multi-state network of infrastructure improvements and other facilities intended to enhance Norfolk Southern’s 2,500 mile rail network that supports the supply chain from the Gulf Coast, Birmingham and Memphis to Philadelphia and the New York metropolitan area and enable it to handle more freight traffic faster and more reliably.