CSX picks Mount Claire site for Baltimore intermodal Published: September 12, 2012 (TRAINS Magazine)
BALTIMORE – CSX has chosen a site the Mount Claire neighborhood of Baltimore's southwest side for its new intermodal facility, reports the Baltimore Sun. The project would allow CSX to bypass the Howard Street Tunnel that runs under downtown by locating its primary intermodal facility south of the constricting tunnel.
The site is just south of Interstate 95 near Washington Blvd. and the communities of Morrell Park and Wilhelm Park. It is a former Baitlmore & Ohio Railroad yard that sits just north of Curtis Bay Jct. and is approximately 2 miles from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, which resides in the railroad's former Mount Claire Shops.
The site is one of four the railroad looked at within the city of Baltimore. The approximately 70 acre parcel of land is already owned by the railroad.
CSX would truck in or operate trains of single stacks import containers from the city's Seagirt Marine Terminal. The railroad would then assemble trains of double stacked containers at the Mount Claire location for further shipment south and west.
The project is expected to cost approximately $90 million and be open in May 2015 for the projected opening of the enlarged Panama Canal
Thanks for the info. But they also need to do this before they actually make use of the new Intermodal facility.
http://virginiaavenuetunnel.com/
Indeed they do for trains going south. West bound trains can use the Camden and Brunswick lines. Thanks for the clarification.