Trains bound for Utah part of plan to
fix crippled supply chain
KSL-TV,
by
Mike Anderson
Original Article
Posted By: skughesme,
10/29/2021 6:05:19 PM
Dozens of shipping containers stuck at the Port of Long Beach could soon be headed to Utah by train. It's part of a solution put forward by the Inland Port Authority and Union Pacific to relieve the cargo ship bottleneck that has disrupted the country's supply chain. If all goes as planned, trains stacked with shipping containers could be coming into Utah within the next two or three days. The rails are already in place, which KSL-TV was told makes the transition relatively easy. A big part of the gridlock is supposed to make its way onto semis, but Utah's Inland Port Authority is pushing
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/29/2021 7:33:15 PM (No. 961121)
This doesn't make sense. When in is broken in California and Washington DC how can it be fixed in Utah?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
brother ram 10/29/2021 7:49:09 PM (No. 961128)
Actually it does make sense. Utah doesn't have the same restrictions on the age of trucks or unionized ports that CA does. Another issue is where to put all the empty containers - well right now they are putting the empties in LA neighborhoods - there is a lot of open space in Utah. Bring the containers inland via rail, unload and sort them out in a state without all the regulations and stupid policies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Laotzu 10/29/2021 8:01:05 PM (No. 961133)
Interesting. The Lefties in Utah have been vehemently attacking this new inland port facility since it was proposed a few years ago. They regularly shut down public meeting. And now that's its running, they're attacking it on environmental grounds (that make no sense of course).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 10/29/2021 8:20:24 PM (No. 961145)
Sounds like a good idea. Figuring out which containers can go to Utah for importing into the supply chain may be a challenge though.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
downnout 10/29/2021 8:33:43 PM (No. 961152)
Trains, hmm? More and more our country is resembling the opening chapters of Atlas Shrugged.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Speedy2 10/29/2021 9:13:18 PM (No. 961185)
California is the ptoblem. Push that state out to sea.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 10/29/2021 9:22:59 PM (No. 961190)
Huge new intermodal hub (trains to trucks) was built here in eastern KS just about 8-10 years ago. I used to ride bikes out in the rural area where they built it.....HUGE.
It was intended for freight coming in from the south, I would presume Mexico, largely. Maybe it can do this same stuff....cut California out of the trucking loop even more, due to their stupid laws.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/29/2021 9:35:35 PM (No. 961197)
#5
At least Utah is before Taggart Tunnel.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 10/29/2021 9:41:09 PM (No. 961198)
The link in the supply chain is trucking. They have stopped the truckers to come into the ports to carry off the goods so how is the stuff getting to the railroads. Idiots!.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/29/2021 10:00:34 PM (No. 961210)
Trains, eh.? Diesel trains? The dreaded fossil fuel eaters. The Dems are going into full panic mode. It’s one thing that low info groups that don’t keep up with politics but when gas goes up two bucks a gallon and groceries cost 20% more then even those people notice. The left are desperate not to be the Grinch who stole Christmas and all the toilet paper. The country is collapsing internally and the entire fault belongs to the radical left which is now in complete control of the Democrat Party.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/29/2021 10:31:17 PM (No. 961220)
#9
Rails run right to the docks. No trucks needed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mike22 10/29/2021 10:38:57 PM (No. 961224)
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have very nice rail yards. Getting the containers moved two days into the country via train is a great idea.
As for pushing Californi into the sea, you only need to push LA and the bay area into the ocean and you have a conservative state with many sane people. But the coastals - there is something. In "As Good as it Gets", Jack Nicholson says "I think of a man, then I remove reason and accountability". Paraphrasing "when I think of California coastal city dwellers, I think of normal people, then I remove reason, accountability and all comprehension of cause and effect".
By the way, removing Chicago and New York would have the same effect on those states, as would removing Detroit and Milwaukee on Michigan and WIsconsin. Minneapolis, St Louis, Denver - get the picture.
Something in the Metropolitan experience.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gramma b 10/30/2021 1:47:41 AM (No. 961279)
Hmmm. I live in Utah and have read headlines about the inland port. Now I understand what it is about, and it does make sense.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NamVet70 10/30/2021 9:42:21 AM (No. 961463)
Dozens of containers - while the problem is hundreds of thousands of containers. This is a distraction from the real issue: the State of California is prohibiting the use of about half the existing truck fleet to service the port due to their new emissions rules. The bottleneck is due to a really bad shortage of trucks. Many large companies recognized this problem when California issued the restriction on the trucks and forced their suppliers to use ports in the Gulf of Mexico. That is why the Panama Canal just set a new record for throughput. The bright side of this is it will create a long-term incentive to replace Asian suppliers with domestic suppliers. After the Biden regime goes the way of the Carter admin then Trump can help us actually build back better.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/30/2021 9:48:49 AM (No. 961471)
I suspect this is all fake, trains have always been the method of choice for long haul transport. Sure they now plan to "take on the additional incremental volume" since the loads are are stacked up but I hardly find this as the bottle neck.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/30/2021 10:19:43 AM (No. 961514)
That's the cover story. They are actually hauling illegal immigrants. What better place to hide strange people than in Utah?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 10/30/2021 11:27:04 AM (No. 961609)
I regularly see huge long trains coming through eastern KS with special cars carrying containers stacked double high, one on top of the other, cars are specially designed to drop very low between the wheel assemblies to let two container stack and stay within height limits.
So, they have been doing this for a long time already. although there is no way to know where the trains I have seen were bound or where they originated.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JimBob 10/31/2021 1:18:53 AM (No. 962155)
But.....But...... do the train locomotives meet the California Air Resources Board standards?
If not, Keep 'em OUT!
Shut down the whole shebang! Insist on Jackasses to haul the loads.
That'll put a lot of Democ'RATS to work!
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