Indiana & Ohio SD40-2 No. 4083 handles the first test car to Jeffersonville, Ohio, on July 26, 2018. The train is crossing the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern main line at Sugar Street in Lima, Ohio, the same line that brought the car to the city.
Zach Marlow
LIMA, Ohio – Canadian Pacific and Genesee & Wyoming have launched a new intermodal lane between Vancouver, British Columbia, and southwest Ohio with six-day-per-week service.
Containers move through the terminal near Jeffersonville, which enables easy access to the Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton markets, according to CP spokesman Andy Cummings. “The new service is an ideal end-to-end supply-chain offering for auto parts shippers, as it bypasses Chicago interchanges, offers flexible destinations, and creates compelling round-trip economics, including opportunities for the backhaul of agricultural products,” he says.
The service started in late July.
The 90-acre terminal is owned and operated by a corn and soybean producer, Bluegrass Farms of Ohio, and is located near Interstate 71.
East of Chicago, the service operates on the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern’s former Pennsylvania Railroad main line to Lima. From there it runs south on the Indiana & Ohio’s onetime Detroit, Toledo & Ironton main line to Jeffersonville.
