Laredo Gateway Industrial Railway LLC

Artist rendering of Eli Lilly’s synthetic medicine active pharmaceutical ingredient facility, to be built on a NS-served site in Alabama. (Courtesy of NS)

Spurring Industrial Development in Alabama, Texas

New industrial development initiatives are under way in Alabama and Texas. While a Norfolk Southern (NS)-served site in Huntsville, Ala., will soon be home to Eli Lilly and Company’s $6 billion advanced manufacturing campus, Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval is being sought for rail line construction between Union Pacific’s (UP) Laredo Subdivision in Texas and a new industrial park.