A newspaper with a railroad siding? Are there any that still receive their paper directly via boxcar?
The Nashville Tennessean recieves UMAX and Canadian National containers sometimes. It did have a siding, but that was removed some years ago. I do remember when they did get their paper from boxcars, but that ended probably 10 years ago.
Omaha World Herald still served by the UP.
I believe that the Chicago Tribune receives its newsprint by rail. The printing plant is just west of the North Branch along the C&NW.
What’s this thing called a “newspaper”?
And why isn’t it online? (heh!)
Herald Standerd Uniontown PA- AVR railroad does streetrunning to get to Newspaper
Omaha, Denver & Cincinnati still do. (IIRC St. Louis just ended … because of the ballpark and the light-rail changes)
I’ve seen the CP delivering box cars to the Minnapolis Star Tribune a few times recently. We can see thier printing plant from our office windows.
Thank You.
Been a few years since I chanced upon CP switching them, but I believe the Calgary Herald still receives newsprint in boxcars, printing plant located here:
In Edmonton the Journal’s plant still has a nominally intact rail spur (also served by CP), but I believe it has been many years since they received a boxcar, plant located here:
Also Quebecor has a printing plant in Edmonton’s west end that as of a few years ago still received boxcars and probably still does, I just haven’t been around to witness it, plant located here:
On another note, the Alberta Newsprint Company’s mill near Whitecourt is still doing a brisk business in outbound boxcars, and they must all end up at a warehouse somewhere…
Thank You.
Fort Wayne (IN) Newspapers built a new printing building across the street. They built a truck-dock, not a new spur. There is a connection between the two over Van Buren Street, but I don’t think it is heavy enough to handle paper rolls.
Well that is unfortunate NDG, but thank YOU for the update.
Going by the date of that article I believe I saw one of the last rail moves into the old plant. I wish I had known, would have stopped and snapped a few photos.
At one time the Atlanta constitution, & ATL journal received their newsprint from a siding that was actually east & parallel to the ATL Union station platforms. Now CSX once NC&SL. As to if now ? ? ?
The “Columbus Dispatch” printing plant still takes rail delivery of newsprint paper via the Camp Chase Industrial Railroad.
The Providence Journal Via P&W .
Randy
I didn’t realize there were so many! I would have thought maybe one or at most a couple…
Haven’t been staking out the plant but the Dallas Morning News used to get it’s newsprint via KCS at their Plano plant. I think the spur is still in place but I have not seen a train on it and believe the switching operation is at night to avoid surface street traffic disruption.
Apparently R. J. Corman’s Allentown line still serves a dock in Allentown that’s used to transload to trucks for delivery to The Morning Call’s printing plant a few blocks away - from this webpage, accessed today:
http://www.rjcorman.com/shortlines/allentown.html
“The Allentown Lines in Pennsylvania is critical to the local operating area where it hauls virtually all of the newsprint for the Allentown Morning Call.”
The Philadelphia Newspapers (The Inquirer) Schuylkill printing plant north of PHL and further just north of Conshohocken (Upper Merion Twp.) used to get newsprint by rail, at least as of 2012 (I have no knowledge of more recent operations). At that time a railroad worker - an “assistant train engineer” (?) per the cbslocal.com report linked below - was killed by a roll of paper that fell/ rolled out of a car onto him:
http://www.timesherald.com/article/JR/20120518/NEWS/120519539
And they print the St.Paul Pioneer Press also.
I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere but does anyone know how large the rolls are and how much they weigh.