NORTHUMBERLAND, Pa. — Button Oil & Propane and the North Shore Railroad have opened a rail-fed, 240,000-gallon propane terminal, described as the first of its kind in the region, to offer residential and commercial delivery of propane, as well as butane for manufacturing applications.
A grand opening for the facility was held Tuesday, Nov. 22, ending a process that began more than three years earlier.
“It was mid-2019 when Ed Button walked into my office to have our first discussion about his concept for a pressurized gas transload terminal,” Todd Hunter, North Shore’s chief marketing officer, said in a press release. “After over 2,000 emails and countless phone calls and meetings since then, we arrive here today, at this beautiful state-of-the-art facility.”
Officials from both companies, along with local government officials, representatives of companies that helped develop the site, and other organizations were on hand for Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting.
Button Oil & Propane, founded in 1933, is currently owned and operated by the fourth generation of the Button family. The North Shore Railroad is a 49.8-mile short line interchanging with Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific in Northumberland. It was established in 1984 to operate a former Conrail branch now owned by the SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority.
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