Rail Logistics Company Profile
Rail Logistics, LC is an asset based third-party logistics organization specializing in offering turn-key rail services to industries throughout North America. Since 1998, we have been providing industry throughout North America with turn-key rail services for both bulk and intermodal shipments. In addition to shipping commodities by rail, we offer our clients the opportunity to outsource their rail transportation departments. Some of our current outsourcing clients are coke producers, steel "mini mills", lead smelters, battery manufacturers, ductile iron pipe foundries, sugar beet processors, scrap metal recyclers, zinc oxide producers and environmental engineering companies. We are the largest single rail shipper of electric arc furnace dust (K061) in North America. For companies who already have an in-house rail program, we provide transportation planning and optimization, supply chain logistics consulting and management, rail fleet management, railcar leasing, maintenance management, and specialized customer service.
News from Rail Logistics:
Cold Train Adds Containers, Destinations, Staff and Space to Keep Pace with Increasing Demand
QUINCY, Wash., Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — As a result of continued growth, Cold Train has recently expanded its Washington State based refrigerated container fleet to over 400 state-of-the-art Hyundai 53' containers while adding new destinations on the East Coast. In fact, Cold Train is now delivering refrigerated cargo from Washington and Oregon to the following nineteen states: […]
Cold Train Expands its Express Intermodal Service from Portland, Oregon to the Midwest and East Coast
Cold Train Continues to Increase its Pacific Northwest Service Area and Locations Served PORTLAND, Ore., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Cold Train is expanding its express refrigerated intermodal service from Portland, Oregon to complement its existing expedited service out of Quincy, Washington. Cold Train's expanded eastbound service out of Portland will deliver to the same […]
Cold Train to Open New Office in Chicago to Increase Focus on Westbound Shipments to Washington State and Oregon
Cold Train Continues to Expand Service Area and Locations Served CHICAGO, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Cold Train is opening a new office in downtown Chicago in 2013 that will primarily focus on hauling more cargo and various products back from the Midwest and East Coast to Washington State and Oregon. Cold Train recently tripled […]
Cold Train to Expand Refrigerated Container Fleet and Destinations to Keep Pace with Increasing Growth
Shipments continue to surge on Cold Train QUINCY, Wash., July 24, 2012 — As a result of continued growth, Cold Train is expanding its Washington State based refrigerated container fleet to 300 state-of-the-art 53' containers (all built by Hyundai), and will also be adding several new destinations this year. In early 2010, Rail Logistics (www.rrlx.com) […]
Rail Logistics to Manage Refrigerated Railcar Fleet for Iowa Pacific Holdings
CHICAGO, May 7, 2012 — Rail Logistics and Iowa Pacific Holdings have announced a new partnership in which Rail Logistics (www.rrlx.com) will manage, operate and market Iowa Pacific's (www.iowapacific.com) refrigerated railcar fleet beginning May 1, 2012. The state-of-the-art refrigerated railcar fleet will initially be equipped with 150 cars. Iowa Pacific has ordered an additional one-hundred […]
Rail Logistics-Cold Train Announces Partnership with Interstate Distributor Co. for Dedicated Drayage Trucking Fleet in Washington State
QUINCY, Wash., April 3, 2012 — Rail Logistics-Cold Train and Interstate Distributor Co. have announced a new partnership in which Cold Train (www.icoldtrain.com) will utilize a dedicated fleet of trucks from Interstate Distributor Co. (www.intd.com) for short-haul drayage service to and from the Port of Quincy Intermodal Terminal (www.portofquincyintermodal.com) in Washington State. In early 2010, […]
New Quincy-to-Chicago 'Cold Train' Intermodal Service Growing in Popularity With Produce Shippers
QUINCY, Wash., Aug. 25, 2010 — A new refrigerated intermodal container rail and distribution service between Quincy, WA and Chicago, IL is quickly growing in popularity with produce shippers in the Pacific Northwest. This new expedited, door-to-door Pacific Northwest-Chicagoland Express "Cold Train" Intermodal Service ) was recently launched in April (http://refrigeratedtrans.com/carriers-shippers/cold_train_intermodal_service_begins_0408/) by Rail Logistics in […]
New Expedited Refrigerated Container Rail Service and Distribution Services to Begin Between Central Washington and Chicago
QUINCY, Wash. and CHICAGO, April 6, 2010 — Rail Logistics, Columbia Colstor, LaGROU Distribution (i.e., Chicago Cold Storage) and the Port of Quincy have begun to offer a new expedited refrigerated intermodal "Cold Train" container rail and distribution service between Quincy, WA and Chicago, IL beginning this week (the week of April 5, 2010). This […]
Over 60 Shippers Attend Open House at the Port of Quincy to Learn About New Cold Train Intermodal Service
New service to begin on April 1, 2010 QUINCY, Wash., March 17, 2010 — Over 60 representatives of various food processors and produce shippers from the region attended a recent "Shippers Open House" at the Port of Quincy Intermodal Terminal (http://www.portofquincyintermodal.com) to learn about a new expedited intermodal rail service for Washington State produce and […]
