Rail Access Made Easy

If your facility does not have a rail spur or is not located on one of our railroads, you can still take advantage of G&W’s service and freight rail economics via one of our transload locations.

The Benefits of Transloading

Transloading is commonly used when a shipper or receiver has no rail spur on site, or lacks proper facilities and equipment to handle freight to and from a railcar. Other scenarios were a transload can be useful include:

Shipping Capacity

Add more loading or unloading capacity at a rail spur location

Railroad Optionality

Gain access to another railroad's route network or rail equipment

Truckload Quantities

Consolidate several customers to take advantage of railcar quantities

Distribution Network

Reach markets where you lack your own warehouse or terminal

What Products Can Be Transloaded?

Anything from bulk materials and liquids to palletized and break-bulk products. This includes products such as:

 

  • Lumber and panel products, gypsum wallboard
  • Steel products and machinery
  • Renewable diesel, ethanol, fuels, diesel exhaust fluid, NGLs, chemicals
  • Plastics, sand, soda ash and other industrial minerals
  • Fertilizer and farm inputs
  • Grain, flour and feed ingredients
  • Paper, food products and other warehoused goods

Connect with G&W about Transloading

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