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Rail Services Terre Haute/Vigo County
Terre Haute offers Class I rail service rail provided by CSX Transportation,
Inc. (CSXT) and theIndiana Rail Road Company.
CSX Transportation, Inc.,
500 Water Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202
(904) 359-3100
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) operates 23,000 US route miles,
of which 1,935 route miles (8.4 percent) are in Indiana. CSXT serves
most major population centers east of the Mississippi River, including
70 ocean, river, and lake ports, more than any other North American
railroad. The CSXT network serves 45 automobile distribution centers;
44 intermodal container/trailer facilities, and 102 bulk transfer
sites, including one in Terre Haute.
Organizationally, CSXT service in Indiana is operated by its Chicago,
Nashville, Louisville, and Great Lakes divisions. The Nashville
Division, headquartered in Nashville, TN, maintains operating offices
in Terre Haute, Evansville and Vincennes. The Great Lakes Division’s
Indianapolis Line has operating offices at Anderson, Avon (Big Four)
and Hawthorne yards in Indianapolis. The Great Lakes Division is
headquartered at Strongsville, OH, near Cleveland. The Chicago Division
includes lines between Chicago and Garrett, Fort Wayne, and Lafayette,
IN. The Louisville Division includes the Cincinnati to Indianapolis
and St. Louis, as well as the Louisville line.
CSXT connects with 21 of 37 Class II and III railroads in Indiana
which account for 98 percent of traffic handled by Class II and
III railroads in Indiana.
Indiana Rail Road
101 W. Ohio Street, Suite 1600, Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 262-5140
The Indiana Rail road Company is a 500-mile regional freight railroad,
hauling more than 15 million tons of goods annually. The railroad
carries traffic between Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis and Newton,
Illinois, with connections to major western and southern carries.
INDR offers customers
direct connections to western carriers at Chicago, including BNSF
Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, CP, CN, CSXT, as well as several
regionals and short lines. In Louisville, INDR connects with
Norfolk Southern, CSXT, Paducah and Louisville, and the Louisville
& Indiana.
RR Line Segment
|
IN Miles |
GTM’s
(million) |
Main Tracks |
Train Control |
MAS Freight |
ATR
Clearance |
CSXT Muncie, Indianapolis
(east-west) |
164 |
30 |
2 |
TCS |
60 |
HCDS |
CSXT-Chicago and
Evansville
(north-south) |
152 |
50 |
1 |
TCS |
60 |
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INRD
(north-south)
(east-west)
|
500 |
15 |
3 |
TCS |
60 |
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Abbreviations:
GTM-gross ton miles per mile, TCS-Traffic Control System,
DTC-Direct Train Control by dispatcher, ABS-Automatic Block
System, MAS-maximum authorized speed in mph, ATR-above the
rail, HCDS-high cube double stack (9’6”) containers.
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