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Rail Service in Southwest Indiana, the Evansville Region
The Evansville area is served by CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Indiana Southern railroads.
NORFOLK SOUTHERN
The main Norfolk Southern line runs through Gibson County north of Evansville and connects to western railroads in St. Louis. The Huntingburg spur serves Evansville. With both the CSX and Norfolk Southern serving the former Conrail area in the northeast, service to the eastern US is excellent. Both railroads connect with other railroads that serve western markets.
CSX RR & INTERMODAL FACILITY
The main line of the CSX from Chicago to SE United States, runs through Evansville. This busy line handles many trains each day through the Howell Yard in the southern end of Evansville. The Howell Yard not only performs the sorting and make up of trains it also has Intermodal facilities to handle both cargo containers and piggyback trailers (TOFC). The Howell Yard Intermodal facility has the capability to handle 3,000 containers per month. The CSX can work with ocean carriers to reposition containers for truly intermodal shipping.
INDIANA SOUTHERN
The Indiana Southern Railroad is a short-line that operates between Evansville and Indianapolis on the former Conrail line. Indiana Southern serves several coal mines and hauls a lot of coal used by electric generating stations in the area. Indiana Southern connects with the CSX in Evansville and Indianapolis as well as the Canadian Pacific.
As a result of competition, area companies have had excellent response in negotiating contract rates from the rail carriers serving the region.
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Railroads move over 40 percent of all ton-milesof intercity freight, nearly as much as trucks, barges, and airlines combined. The nation's
railroads carry:
- 70 percent of automobiles and trucks
- 64 percent of coal
- 40 percent of grain
- 20 percent of chemicals
The Evansville intermodal terminal to the lower left, occupies 17 acres at Howell Yard in Evansville.
Evansville is served by northbound and southbound trains operating in the corridor between Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, and Jacksonville.
The equipment split is about 65 percent containers and 35 percent trailers.
A major inbound customer is land-bridge (water/rail) container traffic to Toyota, Inc. A major outbound customer is Whirlpool, Inc. to the southeast, including Atlanta and Florida, as well as containers to the west coast.
CSXI also offers service between Evansville and the CSXI terminal in Chicago, IL, a line haul of less than 300 miles, with a second morning delivery.
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