Norfolk Southern rolls out hybrid cranes in Atlanta to help handle thousands of shipping containers

Inman Yard
Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard terminal handles 30,000 shipping containers a month (Emil Moffatt/WABE)


Every day at Norfolk Southern’s Inman Yard intermodal facility in Northwest Atlanta, around a thousand shipping containers are delivered by train.

Awaiting their arrival is a fleet of giant overhead cranes with their square frames straddling the railroad tracks, ready to unload containers.

“Right now we’re hearing, actually, a crane in the background that’s diesel-powered,” said Josh Raglin, Norfolk-Southern’s chief sustainability officer as he stood inside the yard. “You hear how much noise that is?”