Rigby Yard — Activity, Sightings, and General Discussion

The good thing is CSX can't operate them under the ST labor agreement the bad thing is the employees will never get better pay if they don't move to the CSX system agreements (where they can be operated).

While driving by today I noticed that a large fueling station has been built where the PT roundhouse used to be. I couldn't get close enough to see it in great detail, but there are two liquid fuel tanks that I guesstimate to be about 20,000 gallons each, as well as a very large propane tank, and another large tank that I couldn't identify from my vantage point. There's still some construction going on near it, including some RJ Corman vehicles, so I'm not sure if this is going to be a fuel rack for locomotives or perhaps it'll just be for MoW equipment.

In other Rigby news:

A huge TransFlo sign has been erected in the yard parking lot, not far from the yard entrance. Rigby is officially a TransFlo terminal now:

https://www.transflo.net/locations/maine-portland/

Also spotted at Rigby this afternoon was GP40WH-2 #9969, facing east, with two CSX track geometry cars.

And that website says this about Rigby:

"• Multi-commodity facility
• 43 Car Spots (+70 in 2024)
• Heating Capability (avail. in 2024)
• Lift Capability (avail. in 2024)"

Should be for locomotives.

I'm hearing that CSX wants to run a Rigby to Keag manifest that works NMJ. Then they want to ultimately run Sappi to Rigby working Waterville and presumably Danville/Leeds. We've seen iterations of this in Guilford days with POSD/SDPO and PONL (a turn job for road switching). At one point too Guilford ran a job down from Waterville to work on its way down to Portland.

All this means is that everything will be based out of Rigby, which has been said by CSX management anyways as the long term plan. For the Transflo site, they should be bringing in some lift equipment in the near future. Also hearing rumors they want to setup a Transflo site at NMJ.

BM6569 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:41 pm And that website says this about Rigby:

"• Multi-commodity facility
• 43 Car Spots (+70 in 2024)
• Heating Capability (avail. in 2024)
• Lift Capability (avail. in 2024)"

I assume this is all intermodal-related (and possibly indicative of the long-rumored intermodal ramp at Rigby actually coming upon us)?

Some of it may be incidentally intermodal-related, but I think most of it is about transloading — which shares some similarities with intermodal, but is considered a separate category.

Edit: Uncle Pete has a handy page that answers the question, "What's the difference between intermodal and transloading?" Here's the link: https://www.up.com/customers/track-reco ... oading.htm

Union Pacific wrote:What makes transloading different from intermodal shipping?
Transloading is very similar to intermodal shipping in that products are transferred between trucks and trains – except that with transloading, products are moved between conveyances rather than staying in the same container the whole way.

The lift capability is specifically for transferring containers dedicated to transporting municipal solid waste, likely in this case purpose-built, between truck chassis/flatbed and rail flat/well car but not general use intermodal containers or trailers.