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On July 1, 1985, Burlington Northern (BN) Railroad Company completed construction of a new container-handling facility at Seattle, Washington. The new facility, dubbed the Seattle International Gateway, had been built in just 6 months, to meet market demands for double-stack railroad equipment and potential growth in the Pacific Northwest. This feat could not have been accomplished without extensive planning, the innovative use of equipment, and the personal commitment of everyone involved. Planning and scheduling began before the project reached the drawing boards and continued throughout the course of construction. Design engineers and construction contractors scheduled their work using the critical path method and continually updated their schedules as conditions changed. Modern, high-production equipment was used to expedite both the design and the construction. Equipment included electronic survey instrumentation, a new device to measure subgrade strength, and high-production concrete batch plants and finishing machines. The end result was an efficient, low-cost, container-handling facility, located within 1 mi of the Port of Seattle and BN's main-line railroad, which offers substantial savings to shippers using stack train service to Chicago and has made the Port of Seattle more competitive in international markets.

This paper appeared in Transportation Research Board State-of-the-Art Report 4, Facing the Challenge, The Intermodal Terminal of the Future, Conference on Intermodal Freight Terminal Design, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2-5, 1986. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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1986

State-of-the-Art Report

Facing the Challenge. The Intermodal Terminal of the Future

Figures (6) ; Tables (2)

Conferences; Construction; Construction equipment; Construction scheduling; Container cars; Critical path method; Design; Doublestack service; Freight terminals; Planning; Railroad cars by type

Double stack container cars

Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Freight Transportation; Highways; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB

Jul 31 1987 12:00AM

• ADDRESS: DESIGN-AND-BUILD CONCEPT FOR INTERMODAL FREIGHT TERMINALS
• ADDRESS: MARITIME-RAIL INTERFACE
• AUTOMATIC VEHICLE AND CONTAINER IDENTIFICATION USING RADIO FREQUENCY TECHNOLOGY
• DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR INTERMODAL CONTAINER TRANSFER FACILITIES
• DESIGN ISSUES RELATED TO THE INTERMODAL MARINE-RAIL INTERFACE
• DOMESTIC CONTAINERIZATION: OVERVIEW OF TERMINAL DESIGN AND OPERATING ISSUES
• DOUBLE-STACK CONTAINERS ON RAIL CARS: THE APL VIEW
• EXAMPLE OF PAVEMENT DESIGN FOR A RAILROAD INTERMODAL TERMINAL
• EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SANTA FE'S CORWITH INTERMODAL FACILITY
• EXPERIENCE WITH GRAVEL SURFACE TREATMENT AT CONRAIL INTERMODAL TERMINALS
• FACING THE CHALLENGE. THE INTERMODAL TERMINAL OF THE FUTURE
• FREIGHT TERMINALS AND THE NEED FOR A COMMON COMMUNICATIONS CODE
• KEYNOTE ADDRESS: TERMINAL OF THE FUTURE
• MICROCIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY IN THE MARITIME INDUSTRY
• NEW INTERMODAL CONCEPTS AT THE PORT OF TACOMA
• PAVEMENT DESIGN OF GANTRY CRANE LANES FOR THE PORT OF PORTLAND
• PHYSICAL SECURITY IN RAILROAD INTERMODAL TERMINALS
• PLANNING, LEASING, AND INTERMODAL FACILITY DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVE OF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF SEA-LAND CORPORATION
• ROLLER-COMPACTED CONCRETE PAVEMENT DESIGN PRACTICES FOR INTERMODAL FREIGHT TERMINALS AT THE PORT OF TACOMA
• SANTA FE'S SYSTEM APPROACH TO INTERMODAL CONTROL
• STACKING TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTERMODAL OPERATIONS