The new facility is called Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) and is located in Edgerton on the outskirts of Kansas. It will replace most of the operations at BNSF’s existing Argentine yard closer to the Kansas urban core.

LPKC encompasses 433 acres and will have an initial capacity of 500,000 lifts (containers and trailers) with the ability to expand to 1.5 million units. The terminal includes six 8,000-foot working tracks and more than 1,800 wheeled parking spaces. It will have 4,300 container stacking spots at full build-out.

The main yard equipment is five Konecranes wide-span, electric, rail-mounted gantry cranes, with the OASIS TOS from GE Transport as the main yard planning applciation. The terminal also features an automated gate system with biometric driver identification system and cameras for damage inspection images.

“BNSF has incorporated decades of experience in developing more efficient logistics facilities into the design of the $250 million LPKC Intermodal Facility. BNSF helped pioneer the Logistics Park concept which uses an intermodal facility to anchor the development of adjacent distribution centers to reduce supply chain costs, truck miles traveled, energy consumption and emissions” BNSF said in a statement.

LPKC is the only full-service BNSF facility in the western two-thirds of the US offering domestic intermodal service (container, trailer, and expedited and standard service levels), international intermodal service and direct-rail/carload service. The facility also has direct access to I-35 via the new Homestead Lane and Double Diverging Diamond Interchange.