Re: Watsonville
Author: mook
Date: 09-02-2015 - 13:00

And where's the intermodal ramp/container transload? Tracy? Oakland more likely? Stockton? Did I hear recently that BNSF closed their Fresno intermodal for lack of business?

Practically nobody in the retail-serving business gets things by carload rail. Perhaps there was a rail segment for containers, but note that all these places are within a 2-4 hour dray (i.e. 1-2 round trips per truck driver shift) from marine container terminals, which is where most of their stuff comes from (see: China) - no rail market in that kind of short haul.

Still, it's interesting the FedEx would expand in Watsonville even if there's no rail connection. Would have expected them to put a sorting center closer to a freeway connecting to the Bay Area and LA than that, like maybe in Salinas. But rail? No way, given FedEx's general routing practices. Trucks & airplanes are faster and more reliable.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Watsonville Robert 08-30-2015 - 20:13
  Re: Watsonville Jon 08-30-2015 - 20:49
  Re: Watsonville Robert 08-30-2015 - 21:14
  Re: Watsonville george manley 08-30-2015 - 20:50
  Re: Watsonville mook 08-31-2015 - 07:45
  Re: Watsonville Carol L. Voss 08-31-2015 - 10:22
  Re: Watsonville espee1998 08-31-2015 - 12:36
  Re: Watsonville WestSacLocalCondr 08-31-2015 - 16:18
  Re: Watsonville Howard 08-31-2015 - 20:58
  Re: Watsonville Margaret (SP fan) 08-31-2015 - 20:17
  Re: Watsonville The Odd Duck 09-01-2015 - 01:18
  Re: Watsonville Mills Watson 08-31-2015 - 13:35
  Re: Watsonville E 08-31-2015 - 17:28
  Re: Watsonville Tony Johnson 08-31-2015 - 18:31
  Re: Watsonville Watsy 09-01-2015 - 10:47
  Re: Watsonville George Andrews 09-01-2015 - 20:32
  Re: Watsonville Al Stangenberger 09-01-2015 - 22:46
  Re: Watsonville E 09-02-2015 - 12:43
  Re: Watsonville mook 09-02-2015 - 13:00
  Re: Watsonville Watsy 09-02-2015 - 08:39
  Re: Watsonville The Odd Duck 09-02-2015 - 13:42
  Re: Watsonville Jon 09-02-2015 - 18:35


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