Construction Begins at new Union Pacific Brazos Yard

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http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Construction-begins-on-Union-Pacific-Railyard-471118603.html
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The $550 million rail yard represents the largest capital investment in a single facility in the company's 155-year history. Brazos Yard will have the capacity to switch up to 1,300 rail cars per day, making it one of the highest capacity yards on Union Pacific's 23-state network. As the first yard of its kind to be built in more than a generation, it will showcase best practices in operating efficiency, technology and innovation.

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The project is expected to create between 500 and 550 construction-related jobs, drawing on workers from the immediate area and from across Texas. A study completed by Texas A&M University's Engineering Extension Service predicted the completed yard will contribute almost $260 million in annual total output for the state of Texas. Completion is estimated in 2020.
Located in Mumford, the site is 15 minutes from the RELLIS campus. 500-550 construction jobs for two years is nothing to sneeze at. Any idea how many jobs will be created on the site once complete?
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Captn_Ag05 said:

Located in Mumford, the site is 15 minutes from the RELLIS campus. 500-550 construction jobs for two years is nothing to sneeze at. Any idea how many jobs will be created on the site once complete?
I asked a friend who is a construction project manager with BNSF that question back when the project was first announced; he said 25-50.
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Good information! Hopefully it is closer to 50, and 50 good paying jobs at that.

UP should further prove their commitment to the area by relocating some of their office jobs to BCS.

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Why does a company need to"prove their commitment to the area"? We aren't dating them, we have a business relationship, that is all. They should do business where they can be most efficient, not because they are "committed to an area". They are obviously committed to keeping operations here as they are spending half a billion dollars on the rail yard. Moving office jobs here, away from their headquarters in Omaha would make no financial sense at all.
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Half a billion + the money they paid landowners who they stole land from.
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I bid part of the plans for this project. The scale is immense.
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cslifer said:

Why does a company need to"prove their commitment to the area"? We aren't dating them, we have a business relationship, that is all. They should do business where they can be most efficient, not because they are "committed to an area". They are obviously committed to keeping operations here as they are spending half a billion dollars on the rail yard. Moving office jobs here, away from their headquarters in Omaha would make no financial sense at all.


The ONLY " commitment " a business has to anyone is to their shareholders PERIOD!!!! And that commitment is to maximize PROFITS.... End of discussion.....
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That is exactly what I was saying...
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And, that's all they're doing. The expansion makes business sense or they wouldn't do it. The "commitment" line is for local government and economic development rubes to pat themselves on the back at the next chamber of commerce banquet.
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Captn_Ag05 said:

http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Construction-begins-on-Union-Pacific-Railyard-471118603.html
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The $550 million rail yard represents the largest capital investment in a single facility in the company's 155-year history. Brazos Yard will have the capacity to switch up to 1,300 rail cars per day, making it one of the highest capacity yards on Union Pacific's 23-state network. As the first yard of its kind to be built in more than a generation, it will showcase best practices in operating efficiency, technology and innovation.

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The project is expected to create between 500 and 550 construction-related jobs, drawing on workers from the immediate area and from across Texas. A study completed by Texas A&M University's Engineering Extension Service predicted the completed yard will contribute almost $260 million in annual total output for the state of Texas. Completion is estimated in 2020.
Located in Mumford, the site is 15 minutes from the RELLIS campus. 500-550 construction jobs for two years is nothing to sneeze at. Any idea how many jobs will be created on the site once complete?
You figure the Kyle Field expansion was about $485 million. This is great economic news for our area.
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Captn_Ag05 said:

http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Construction-begins-on-Union-Pacific-Railyard-471118603.html
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The $550 million rail yard represents the largest capital investment in a single facility in the company's 155-year history. Brazos Yard will have the capacity to switch up to 1,300 rail cars per day, making it one of the highest capacity yards on Union Pacific's 23-state network. As the first yard of its kind to be built in more than a generation, it will showcase best practices in operating efficiency, technology and innovation.

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The project is expected to create between 500 and 550 construction-related jobs, drawing on workers from the immediate area and from across Texas. A study completed by Texas A&M University's Engineering Extension Service predicted the completed yard will contribute almost $260 million in annual total output for the state of Texas. Completion is estimated in 2020.
Located in Mumford, the site is 15 minutes from the RELLIS campus. 500-550 construction jobs for two years is nothing to sneeze at. Any idea how many jobs will be created on the site once complete?

According to the Eagle, 500-550 construction jobs, and 350 railroad employees working there when it's complete. Looks like a major win for our area.

http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/union-pacific-to-build-million-classification-yard-in-robertson-county/article_01e9ecfd-ee45-5680-93da-d523b2361e77.html
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Amid all the hoopla, I do have a question or two. Does anyone happen to recall what UP said regarding how many more trains would be coming through BCS? I know they had mentioned longer trains carrying crude, etc but volume of traffic numbers per day has escaped my memory and second, with a completion date estimated at 2020 and the Wellborn/Bush project being delayed by TXDOT, will that be finished prior? That would be a real drag if not.
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That is great news. But, will the new jobs be truly new or pulled from the existing Hearne yard?

The area southeast of the new Mumford yard and northwest of RELLIS could be poised for some nice growth over the next few years.
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Good question. Any idea how many currently work at the Hearne yard? And I thought that was a GATX facility.
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Maybe they could use some of that money to move the tracks out of downtown Bryan so that some decent development will happen.
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Builder93 said:

Maybe they could use some of that money to move the tracks out of downtown Bryan so that some decent development will happen.
Last time they tried that, land owners outside of town complained. You can never make everybody happy.
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techno-ag said:

Builder93 said:

Maybe they could use some of that money to move the tracks out of downtown Bryan so that some decent development will happen.
Last time they tried that, land owners outside of town complained. You can never make everybody happy.
I would expect that, but I think a good case could be made for more safe and efficient rail by moving them out of town.
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Builder93 said:

techno-ag said:

Builder93 said:

Maybe they could use some of that money to move the tracks out of downtown Bryan so that some decent development will happen.
Last time they tried that, land owners outside of town complained. You can never make everybody happy.
I would expect that, but I think a good case could be made for more safe and efficient rail by moving them out of town.
Cost is a significant deterrent too. Not all of it falls on the RR. The state set up a fund for bypassing cities when they moved control from the RR Commission to TxDOT but they never financed it.
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http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Brazos-Rail-y550-million--471694244.html

According to KBTX, it could result in 500 permanent railroad jobs. This is great news.

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When they open, Mainwaring said there will be 500 jobs available to the community.

"Railroad jobs are great jobs... We are an economic driver, so we are excited about working with this community to advance their goals to economic development," said Mainwaring.


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Looks like it's going to bring some good tax funding to Robertson Co. & Mumford ISD too. The RR did not ask for any abatements.
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techno-ag said:

Builder93 said:

Maybe they could use some of that money to move the tracks out of downtown Bryan so that some decent development will happen.
Last time they tried that, land owners outside of town complained. You can never make everybody happy.


From reading microfilms from the 1990s, one of the complainers was Producers Co-Op. Smartest thing to do would've been building the rail in the median of the Highway 6 rebuild, then also rebuilding Earl Rudder Freeway as a modern freeway with the railroad in the middle. The railroad would hook up with junctions at both ends, with access provided for Producers and that fertilizer company in Millican.

The timeline would mean trains are essentially excised from DT Bryan and TAMU, with railroad access terminating at George Bush Drive for special events. The underpass at Villa Maria doesn't go to waste, the FM 2818 overpass is never built, and Wellborn south of FM 2818 can be upgraded as a full freeway, continuing westward around 2818 as the true "West Loop".
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