News / US and Mexico intermodal traffic surge too much for railways to swallow?

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Amid surging intermodal volumes, it did not take long for a newly minted rail connection from the south-eastern US to Mexico and Texas to gain traction.

And a new intermodal service is on the horizon – less than three weeks after Class I railways CSX and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) received the go-ahead from the US Surface Transportation Board to acquire sections of the regional lines of Genesee & Wyoming’s Meridian & Bigbee Railroad at Myrtlewood, Alabama.

These stretches of rail ...