Northwest produce to head East
Mary Hopkin -- Tri-cityherald.com -- September 7, 2006WALLULA -- A New York-based shipping company has completed its $20 million refrigerated warehouse and rail loop in Wallula and plans to send its first train of Mid-Columbia produce to the East Coast in mid-October.
Jim Kleist, general manager of Railex Washington's Wallula facility, said as soon as a similar facility under construction in Rotterdam, N.Y., is complete, the first mile-long unit train full of potatoes, apples and other produce will leave Wallula on a five-day run to New York.
Both facilities include a two-mile oval of railroad track that passes through a refrigerated warehouse 1,500 feet long and 140 feet wide.
Trucks can unload at docks on the outside of the warehouse directly into the refrigerated portion of the building. The train pulls through the building and dock workers load the produce onto railcars pallet by pallet.
"The train will leave Wallula every Thursday," Kleist said. "The first train is already full and will be hauling potatoes, onions, pears and apples."
The first truckloads of potatoes arrived at the 210,000-square-foot warehouse Wednesday and employees began training on loading the bulky, 100-pound bags on pallets and then onto the train.
Northwest produce to head East
Mary Hopkin -- Tri-cityherald.com -- September 7, 2006
WALLULA -- A New York-based shipping company has completed its $20 million refrigerated warehouse and rail loop in Wallula and plans to send its first train of Mid-Columbia produce to the East Coast in mid-October.
Jim Kleist, general manager of Railex Washington's Wallula facility, said as soon as a similar facility under construction in Rotterdam, N.Y., is complete, the first mile-long unit train full of potatoes, apples and other produce will leave Wallula on a five-day run to New York.
Both facilities include a two-mile oval of railroad track that passes through a refrigerated warehouse 1,500 feet long and 140 feet wide.
Trucks can unload at docks on the outside of the warehouse directly into the refrigerated portion of the building. The train pulls through the building and dock workers load the produce onto railcars pallet by pallet.
"The train will leave Wallula every Thursday," Kleist said. "The first train is already full and will be hauling potatoes, onions, pears and apples."
The first truckloads of potatoes arrived at the 210,000-square-foot warehouse Wednesday and employees began training on loading the bulky, 100-pound bags on pallets and then onto the train.
Jim Kleist, general manager of Railex Washington's Wallula facility, said as soon as a similar facility under construction in Rotterdam, N.Y., is complete, the first mile-long unit train full of potatoes, apples and other produce will leave Wallula on a five-day run to New York.
Both facilities include a two-mile oval of railroad track that passes through a refrigerated warehouse 1,500 feet long and 140 feet wide.
Trucks can unload at docks on the outside of the warehouse directly into the refrigerated portion of the building. The train pulls through the building and dock workers load the produce onto railcars pallet by pallet.
"The train will leave Wallula every Thursday," Kleist said. "The first train is already full and will be hauling potatoes, onions, pears and apples."
The first truckloads of potatoes arrived at the 210,000-square-foot warehouse Wednesday and employees began training on loading the bulky, 100-pound bags on pallets and then onto the train.
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