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Norfolk Southern official: Hagerstown was  second choice for rail-truck 
terminal
$95 million intermodal facility now being built  in Greencastle
 
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By HEATHER KEELS heather.keels at herald-mail.com  
1:39 p.m. EDT, August 3,  2011

 
HAGERSTOWN— 
_Hagerstown_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/us/maryland/washington-county-(maryland)/hagerstown-(washington-maryland)-PLGEO100100600001607.topic)  
was _Norfolk Southern_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/economy-business-finance/norfolk-southern-corporation-ORCRP010911.topic) ’s second-choice 
location for a $95 million intermodal  rail-truck terminal now under construction 
near Greencastle, Pa., Norfolk  Southern government relations member Richard 
“Drew” Marrs told a group of local  business people Wednesday at a 
Hagerstown-_Washington County_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/us/virginia/washington-county-PLGEO1001011123000000.topic)  Chamber of Commerce “Eggs and 
Issues” breakfast.

“It is my understanding that many of the  characteristics that were 
examined for the intermodal facility were also looked  for in Hagerstown, and 
Hagerstown came down as one of the final two locations  for the facility,” Marrs 
said. 

 
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In the end, the Greencastle location was selected  because traffic flow in 
that area was more suitable, he said.

Still, Hagerstown-area businesses stand to  benefit from the economic 
impact of the Greencastle facility, which is expected  to extend in a 50 mile 
radius around the facility, Marrs said.

In addition to creating about 126 jobs at  the intermodal facility and 
another roughly 150 jobs supporting the facility,  its creation is estimated to 
benefit more than 5,000 jobs through purchases and  payments made by the 
railroad and new industries it will attract to the region,  he said.

In the years since the 1989  opening of the Virginia Inland Port, a similar 
container-transfer facility near  Front Royal, Va., 39 companies have 
located near that facility, he said.

For new and existing businesses and their  clients, the intermodal facility 
offers a new approach to transporting  shipments, Marrs said.

“Intermodal  transport is a fancy word for saying it took more than one 
mode of  transportation to bring it to you,” he said.

Often, the shipment begins and ends by truck, but also spends  time on a 
train, ship or airplane, Marrs said. At the Greencastle facility,  containers 
will be moved from trucks to trains and vice-versa, he said.
The target business for Norfolk Southern’s intermodal transport  is 
shipments headed to destinations about 500 miles away, Marrs said.

The truck leg of the journey generally  will be within a 50-mile radius of 
the intermodal facility, he said.

“That’s good for the truck drivers that  want to come home at night,” he 
said. “They can stay here in their region and  not have to do long hauls.”

The  Greencastle intermodal facility is part of Norfolk Southern’s 
2,500-mile  Crescent Corridor rail network from _New Jersey_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/us/new-jersey-PLGEO100100700000000.topic)  to _Louisiana_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/us/louisiana-PLGEO100102500000000.topic) .

“The Crescent  Corridor offers north-south connectivity,” Marrs said. “
Normally it’s been east  to west, so this is a new opportunity for businesses 
in the region that want to  take their goods north into the northeast or, 
vice versa, take it south into the  southeast.”

Purchases and payments made  by Norfolk Southern will also benefit 
_Washington_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/us/washington-(u.s.-state)-PLGEO100104900000000.topic)  County businesses as the railroad spends money on 
everything  from buying lunch for a safety briefing to buying sand and gravel or 
hiring area  companies as subcontractors for work at the facility, Marrs said.

The railroad reinvests 40 percent of every  dollar its earns back into 
infrastructure, and that will include investments in  the Washington County 
area, he said.

“We start with intermodal terminals, then we increase the speed  on the 
tracks, then we add capacity by adding new track, and then lastly we buy  more 
locomotives and we buy more cars,” Marrs said.

Wednesday’s breakfast was held at the Applause Caterers banquet  room above 
the Academy Theater in Hagerstown. It was sponsored by Kaplan  University. 

 
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