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Intermodal shipping gains steam as faster, cheaper alternative

Omaha World-Herald
March 11, 2014

In a typical year, Iowa Interstate Railroad’s intermodal terminal on the eastern edge of Council Bluffs transfers about 50,000 shipping containers from trucks to railcars, or vice versa.

That’s a little more than one every five minutes the facility is open, and trends across the transportation industry indicate that number is going nowhere but up..