The
combination of rail and truck transportation can keep
shipping costs down. This is especially true if time and
rail facilities are available.
One of our customers recently received an order for coated
pipe to be used on a natural gas line project in Wyoming.
Because the pipe delivery to Wyoming didn't have a time
sensitive schedule, the customer was able to use the services
of our new rail transloading facility, Dalton Logistical
Services (DLS), to transport the pipe by rail.
104
rail cars of pipe on their way to Utah to have a coating
applied. The pipe is then transported by truck to Wyoming,
where it is used for natural gas lines.
They purchased
uncoated pipe overseas and had it transported by ship
to the Port of Long Beach. Dalton Trucking transported
the pipe by truck from the Port to DLS,
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where it was temporarily stored until shipment was
needed.
DLS has four rail spurs off the Union Pacific's West
Colton Yard in Bloomingtion, Ca. This was an ideal location
for the storage and eventual shipment of the product.
Pictured above is our Dalton Logistical
Services warehouse and transloading facility, which
has four tracks that are served by the Union Pacific
directly from their West Colton Yard.
There were 104 rail cars of
pipe involved. They were railed to a Utah 'pipe coater'
to have a special coating applied. The coated pipe was
then transported by truck to Wyoming where it became
a buried natural gas line.
For more information
of DLS's transloading and warehouse capability, contact
either Del
Britton at ext. 2100 or Josh
Klenske at ext. 1572.
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