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Rail-fan Pictures at Yard 6 S. Portland

Yard 6 can be somewhat hard to get to because the only good views are from a bridge that only has parking on the Portland side, but it can be done if you are up for walking.

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Looking at the Yard 6 Kaolin facility from the old Rte 1 bridge in South Portland on March 23^rd of 2003.
Photo by John Erickson.

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Park at yard 8 at 133 Cassidy Point Dr Portland, ME 04102 43.643057, -70.276647. PanAm milepost 197, and walk out over the new Veterans Memorial Bridge Pathway to Yard 6 at mp 197.1 43.641293, -70.288933. Yard 6 is often referred to as the oil plant because a 236 mile long oil pipeline to Montreal, Canada starts here.

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Term	Defined As
Dray or Drayage	Transportation of intermodal freight over-the-road from a rail head to a customer’s facility. There are 6 types of drayage: 1. Shuttle Drayage: Movement of an intermodal unit either loaded or empty from a hub to another parking lot because the railroad runs out of room at the hub. 2. Expedited Drayage: Special movement of an intermodal unit over-the-road to get it there on time. This exceptional drayage usually involves time-sensitive freight. 3. Crosstown or Inter-Carrier Drayage: Dray movement of an intermodal unit "across town" to the intermodal hub of a competing or interchange rail carrier. 4. IMX or Intra-Carrier Drayage: Movement of an intermodal unit from a carrier's rail hub to the same carrier's intermodal hub. An IMX dray extends the reach of an intermodal hub. 5. Door-to-door Drayage: Retail dray involving over-the-road movement of a unit to a customer location. 6. Pier Drayage: Over-the-road movement of an intermodal unit from a carrier’s rail hub to a port’s dock or pier.

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