Pennsylvania regional railroad Reading & Northern said this week it took delivery of its first unit train of frac sand.
The train has handed off to R&N by Norfolk Southern on May 15 at R&N’s North Reading Yard.
R&N moved the train to a storage facility in Pittston, Pennsylvania.
The railroad last year created a transloading terminal in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, that will handle Marcellus and non-Marcellus transloading business.
Frac sand is expected to be the dominant commodity handled at the Tunkhannock terminal.