UP opens new railport in Texas

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor

Union Pacific's new Kinney County Railport in Kinney County, Texas, opened Nov. 3.

 

The $40-million facility is located between Eagle Pass and Brackettville covering 100 acres with space to expand up to 470 acres. It provides cleaning and repair services for boxcars carrying packaged beer from Union Pacific customers along the border. At full operation, the facility will have more than 100 employees, filling positions such as supervisors, car men, laborers and support personnel.

The Kinney County Railport will clean and prepare rail cars to meet food-grade guidelines so they are ready to be loaded by customers in Mexico and return to the United States with product for distribution. This will improve operational efficiency and network fluidity, which should help alleviate congestion that causes stopped or slow trains. As a result, drivers in the area may see fewer blocked crossings and have their wait times at those crossings reduced.

“This new railport is strategically located to support our growing import beer business,” said Jason Hess, vice president agricultural products. “The Eagle Pass gateway will become a pipeline for crossing millions of cases of beer annually.”

 

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