G&W Says Shippers Invested $1.5B in 2021

Genesee & Wyoming said this week in a news release that its shippers had invested $1.5 billion in industrial development along its 103 U.S. railroads last year.

Those investments involved 69 projects that G&W said will generate more than 1,000 new jobs.

One of those projects is located in Delta, Ohio, which will receive from the Indiana & Ohio Railway inbound coils to make pipe.

G&W said it is the fourth steel customer to expand business along the I&O since 2015.

Another project includes a wind-turbine trans-loading site in Remington, Indiana, served by Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway.

G&W said it maintains a database of more than 600 potential industrial development properties across its U.S. railroads.

G&W Plans 2 Ohio Capital Projects in 2022

Short line holding company Genesee & Wyoming plans two major capital projects in Ohio this year, Trains magazine reported on its website.

G&W has received a $7.8 million grant that will be used to make improvements in Delta on the Indiana & Ohio.

The work includes installing 40,000 feet of rail, 1,5000 ties, 10 miles of surfacing, 10 turnouts, and a 7,450-foot siding.

In Lima on the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern, G&W will undertake a $9 million project to install 10.85 miles of welded rail at eight locations, and reconfigure a yard.

In all, G&W plans to spend $375 million in North America this year for capital projects, which railroad officials said is the highest capital spending figure in any of the past six years.

Much of that work will involve ties and rail for 900,000 ties and 336 miles of rail.

R&N Helps Ohio Transload Facility Open

Pennsylvania regional railroad Reading & Northern said the first rail cars have been delivered to a new transloading facility located in Delta, Ohio.

The cars were unloaded at the facility located at the North Star BlueScope Steel mill, thus culminating a years-long effort to convert shipments of anthracite coal from truck to rail, R&N said in a news release.

The release said NSBS wanted to improve delivery of Pennsylvania anthracite coal by creating the transfer center in Delta, which is located west of Toledo along the Chicago Line of Norfolk Southern and a route of the Indiana & Ohio that was once part of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton.

R&N provided dedicated pneumatic trucks and negotiated with one of NSBS’s suppliers to locate a site to unload rail cars and load trucks.

It also acquired additional covered hoppers to haul the coal.