Railex opens up a transportation lane that converts long haul to the rail system

“Railex opens up a transportation lane that converts long haul to the rail system,” he said. “We are not reinventing the wheel. The automobile, coal and grain industries use it now and quite successfully.”

Mr. Esposito noted that the facility will have automatic dock levelers that have the ability to move five feet in each direction, allowing Railex to unload 50-foot transload cars. The building will contain six separate temperature-controlled rooms, a 65,000-square-foot packing facility and will have the ability to house 400 racked truckloads, allowing customers to “forward position” their inventories, manage them more efficiently and provide just-in-time deliveries.
“Our facility gives clients the possibility of expanding their distribution radius that would normally have gone LTL,” he said. “For instance, a New York shipper could expand its distribution into New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Montreal or even Maryland, [Washington] D.C. or even the [Pacific] Northwest.”
According to Mr. Esposito, the train, which will be loaded in 36 hours, will depart Washington state on a Thursday and arrive in New York on a Tuesday. It will be unloaded in 24 hours and sent back to Wallula.
Since there are 110 cars in the system, while the first train is on its way back, another train will be departing Washington state to start the process all over again.