What products are shipped by train commercially in California?

Question

Please respond ASAP. This is for a project due tomorrow.

this is for a project due tomorrow. If you know of any websites that could give me information about how they ship the goods by train, like what type of train, what lines ect. would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

you have ta ask? Id give you a D, just for that. open the yellow pages and point. If its not a service, some part of it, if not all of it, came by train or semi

Answer 2

With the very busty Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, railroads not only ship the goods arriving there around the country but also across the country to East Coast ports where they are then re-stacked on ships and shipped on to Europe (since it is as economical to do this as heading through the Panama Canal).

As far as what type of trains and companies, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway are the sole Class Is who serve California's ports (and nearly all goods are shipped in ocean containers hauled in freight cars known as well cars, a type of flat car). BNSF ships containers across their Transcon route to Chicago and St. Louis while Union Pacific does so via their Overland Route (some containers from the Pacific also go through cities such as Memphis).

Answer 3

Just about everything can be shipped by rail. There are many examples of a truck trailer being shipped partly by rail, this is called inter-modal. The train takes it closer to it's final destination and the truck actually makes the delivery to a distribution center or even the final retailer.

Answer 4

Agricultural products, vehicles, oil, gasoline, chemicals, metals, grains,coal, minerals, containers. The list is endless, You have shipping ports that bring goods in from all over the pacific, and all distributed all over the US and Mexico, You have trains bringing goods from all over US and mexico to ship around the pacific, as well as all the things listed above, bieng sent from California, to the rest of US, or the rest of US and Mexico shipping to California

Answer 5

I guess I'm late, but I'll add my 2 cents:

EVERYTHING !! As others have pointed out: Oakland and Long Beach bring in millions of containers each year and MANY of them are loaded straight onto "intermodal" container-carrying cars for distribution across the country.

My brother is the supervisor at a large coal-power plant in Stockton: They take in a large coal train each week, and a great deal of the power and steam they produce is sent right next door to "Corn-Products".

THEY take in train loads of corn and convert it to corn-starch and corn-sugars.

Check the Union Pacific website: http://www.up.com/ or TRAINS Magazines website: http://www.trains.com/trn/ for further information.

Good luck with your project!