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A regional fuel supplier’s expansion\u00a0of their distribution facility included\u00a0adding\u00a0a new rail facility to be constructed on a greenfield site.\u00a0 The new inbound\u00a0commodity required the construction of a new rail yard with an 80-tank car unit train capacity.\u00a0 The site is served by CSX and the operational requirements included bi-directional switching for inbound and outbound rail movements.<\/span><\/p>\nInteractive Aerial Imagery (Google Earth)<\/h6>\n
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