Railroad News

Georgia-Pacific has chosen a CSX rail-served site in Jackson, Tennessee, to locate a new Dixie® paper products manufacturing plant.

The company will invest more than $425 million in the state-of-the-art facility, which will increase the supply of disposable tableware products. Construction is set to begin by 2022’s end and startup is slated for summer 2024, Georgia-Pacific officials said in a press release.

Norfolk Southern Railway has created a combined transportation and network operations organization and promoted Paul Duncan to lead the group as senior vice president.

Duncan will lead the team responsible for designing network operations, executing network plans and coordinating the movement of trains across the NS rail network, company officials said in a press release.

BNSF Railway Co. announced plans to invest more than $1.5 billion to construct a state-of-the-art, master-planned rail facility in Southern California.

The Barstow International Gateway will be a 4,500-acre integrated rail facility on the west side of Barstow, consisting of a rail yard, intermodal facility and warehouses for transloading freight from international containers to domestic containers.