Houston Chronicle: New Rail Line Means Shorter Shipping Route to Mexico (TX)
From Houston Chronicle:
Railroad competition around Houston is expected to pick up steam with the opening of a newly reconstructed rail line to serve the market. Sometime between April and June, Kansas City Southern Railway is set to open a 90-mile link southwest of Houston between Victoria and Rosenberg that will shorten the current Texas-Mexico route by 70 miles for the nation’s sixth-largest railroad company. The “new” line actually is an old one that’s been out of service for years but was never abandoned. “Rehabilitation of this line will eliminate the need for Kansas City Southern to operate more than nearly 160 miles of Union Pacific-controlled track, which is a heavily congested rail corridor,” company spokeswoman Doniele Kane said in an e-mailed statement, referring to the current route through Flatonia.
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