Warehousing / Transloading Services
Iowa Northern Railway Company has two facilities under construction. The first facility is Manly Terminal which is under development in partnership with LB Transport, Inc. and Kenan Advantage Group (KAG) for the primary purpose of supporting distribution of ethanol and all bio-fuel related commodities. It will assist ethanol producers and provide service in the consolidation of product to take advantage of unit train discounts, storage requirements, transloading, and rail service to any market in the nation. Located in Manly, Iowa it is the first of its kind, ethanol origin terminal designed to build efficiencies into the ethanol industry's transportation and trading processes. Located adjacent to Manly Terminal is Manly Yard which is a 1600 car yard for building trains and transloading products such as wind turbine components and machinery. This yard will serve as a classification yard to better serve our Class One partners and enable them to gain operating efficiencies and to better utilize rail equipment.
The second facility, Butler Terminal is in the engineering phase and will be a full service reload yard serving the needs of machinery manufacturers for outbound products, inbound products, dimensional equipment, and to consolidate products for through put to markets in the Northwest, South and Southwest. It will also facilitate transloading for construction materials, and food grade products heading into the northeast Iowa markets. This yard is adjacent to and will also serve as a classification yard for a new Hawkeye Renewables ethanol production facility that is under construction.
