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?”
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