Birmingham Terminal Railway

“Years of planning, coordination, and work have come to fruition as Watco’s new 25,000-square-foot warehouse at Port Birmingham in Alabama is officially open for business,” the company reported in the July edition of its employee magazine, The Dispatch. (Watco Photograph)
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Industrial Development Briefs: Port Bienville, Port Birmingham

Watco, a transportation and logistics company based in Pittsburg, Kans., opens a new warehouse at Alabama’s Port Birmingham. Also, Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission (HCPHC) acquires the former Solvay property within Port Bienville Industrial Park in Mississippi.

Pictured: WSOR’s newest locomotive shop in Janesville, Wis. (Watco Photograph)

Watco Roundup: WSOR, BHRR

Watco, a transportation and logistics company based in Pittsburg, Kans., recently reported the opening of subsidiary Wisconsin & Southern’s (WSOR) newest locomotive shop and the upcoming launch of a $1.9 million warehouse at Port Birmingham (Ala.), to be served by subsidiary Birmingham Terminal Railway (BHRR).

Construction is slated to start this fall on a new $1.1 billion Encina manufacturing facility, which will be served by North Shore Railroad, Railway Age’s 2017 Short Line of the Year. (Photo: North Shore Railroad)

Small-Road Briefs: NSRR, Watco

Encina is planning to build a $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in Point Township, Pa., to be served by North Shore Railroad. Also, the Birmingham-Jefferson County (Ala.) Port Authority and Watco are investing $1.9 billion to boost business at Port Birmingham.