THE FOLKS AT THE PORT OF BALTIMORE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF DOUBLE STACKED TRAINS FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY, BUT FINALLY IT BECAME A REALITY IN OCTOBER. CRANES LOAD CONTAINERS ONTO RAIL ...

BALTIMORE — CSX ran its first revenue double-stack train through the Howard Street Tunnel in the wee hours of Monday morning.

CSX has operated its first revenue double-stack freight train through Baltimore’s upgraded Howard Street Tunnel, marking a major milestone in East Coast–Midwest freight service. The clearance project, ...

BUILT IN THE 1890S, THE HOWARD STREET TUNNEL UNTIL NOW HAD BEEN A CHOKE POINT FOR FREIGHT TRAIN, RAIL TRAFFIC AND AN ACHILLES HEEL FOR THE PORT OF BALTIMORE. THE EXPANSION CHANGES EVERYTHING. THIS IS ...

Despite dredging a 50-foot channel and having a large public-private investment in the Seagirt Marine Terminal to provide a 50-foot berth and super-sized Panamax container cranes, more has to be done ...

Evacuation of cargo from the Port of Mombasa is set to improve following the launch of double-stack wagons on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line. Yesterday, the maiden double-stack train snaked its ...

New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal on Monday said that Railways successfully conducted the first trial run of double-stack container train operation in the ...

HANGZHOU, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A double-stack freight train carrying 56 standard containers of goods left Ningbo-Zhoushan Port for Shaoxing City in east China's Zhejiang Province Tuesday, marking the ...

The Port of Baltimore now has the ability to double-stack shipping containers on trains in and out of the terminal. Port officials have discussed the thought for nearly 50 years, but the idea became a ...