LOGISTICAL ADVANTAGES OF BNSF FREIGHT YARD Name: Grade Course: Tutor`s Name: (13th April, 2011) Logistical advantages of BNSF freight yard There are various advantages that BNSF freight yard has on the logistic arena. Some of the advantages are as follows. Shipper growth and services development As the yard is located near the BNSF, premier rail routes between Chicago and southern California and between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, it offers a good room for expansion. The company also is a leading rail industry leading in intermodal carrier with a load capacity of over 35 million. This makes it advantageous to the yard as it can be used in the logistic issues. The freight yard helps the customer to take advantage of the synergies that are associated with the widening of the projected that have been proposed of 1-55 and the expansion of the distribution center and the growth of the warehouse in the Southwest Chicago metropolitan area. Offers Chicago multimodal facility From the BNSF developments that are intermodal facilities, an automotive facilities and room for multi user carload and transload facility, the freight yard offers a switching yard, which helps the company to build the train faster. This is through easily combining intermodal and automotive trains to other markets in the western countries. The BNSF has started expansion of their right yard where the first phase which include 124 acres of intermodal facility and 151 acres automotive facility and 10...