CSX has a huge complex in Baldwin, FL only a 30 minute drive from Jax, yet few trucks head that way even to load onto rails as one would expect. CXS building the spurs at the Port are hardly used. Of the 2 truckers I know that work out of the Port and haul long distance to areas in Arkansas, Indiana a and even Illinois, one would assume that shipping by rail would be faster and possible cheaper once a train is made up of cars going those directions.
Seriously, I'm not familiar with shipping over the road or by rail which would prove more cheaper, or faster. But toward my last years with Amoco before merging with BP, I started seeing less shipment by hopper cars of material going out of state and more being hauled by trucks to the same companies and locations that we shipped to by rail. Many times 3 or 4 trucks would be needed going to same company with our raw material, were one hopper car would do. Also were we would get railcars of Raw Earth material, including Cobalt or Manganese Dioxide, Acetic Acids, etc., were now delivered by tanker trucks coming all the way from West Coast, or the Gulf Coast. Were I use to see SF engines come twice a day, was now maybe at that time down to 2 maybe 3 times a week.
