This will provide flexibility and reduced shipping costs to benefit area businesses and consumers with a potential economic impact of over $10 million annually.
The planned facility will serve as a logistics park where bulk materials are transferred between semi-trailers and trains and vice versa. “We are even more enthusiastic to provide customers with the positive impacts of multi-railroad competition not recognized in any other third-party transloading facility in the State of Iowa.” “Our team brings decades of business development success in multiple industries and is enthusiastic to collaborate with the railroads’ marketing teams in conjunction with our own business development efforts” said Paul Cownie of Des Moines Industrial. It’s also just one mile from the nation’s busiest commercial trucking intersection of Interstates 35 and 80. Located at 200 SE 15th St., the site has direct access to Iowa Interstate Railroad, Norfolk Southern and BNSF railroads, making it the premier rail-based transportation hub in Iowa. will start construction March 1 and the facility is expected to be operational by late 2021. We are confident that our partnership with TPI Composites and their customers will make shipping the wind blades more cost effective while reducing congestion on the highway and local road systems now and in future years ahead.Des Moines Industrial (DSMI) is poised to move forward with Iowa’s premier industrial transloading facility after recently acquiring 31 acres of land purchased from the City of Des Moines and Norfolk Southern. Iowa Interstate Railroad continues to bring value to the Midwest through its nimble service and strategic location with connections to all class one carriers in the US. The first blades were carefully loaded on April 29 th for shipment. (Two new transloading tracks will be built to accommodate the move).
Plans were put into place, with the cooperation of Key Coop, to utilize a temporary loading site as permanent plans were finalized. The project was not without its difficulties as laydown space, loading equipment, available tracks, and clearance points were all hurdles that needed to be overcome. In 2015 Iowa Interstate Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Distribution Services, the City of Newton, TPI Composites and a major wind OEM worked together to develop a rail solution to move the 189’ wind blades from Newton, IA. After inspection, the cars left Newton and proceeded to the Union Pacific in Des Moines to continue their journey south to Texas. Thirty blades, measuring 56.9 meters each, were loaded one blade per two platform flat cars. Th ursday, May 5 th, marked a first for Iowa Interstate Railroad as wind blades from TPI Composites departed Newton, IA by rail.
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