US Goverment/Army RR Switch Yard, Leland NC | military, railroad yard

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US govt/military switch yard,operated by the 597th Transportation Group. Follow the tracks south to Sunny point military ocean terminal. Notice perimeter fence and closed gates at both ends. This is where military rail cars are separated from commercial rail service.

Sunny Point has a railroad to Leland, NC, which is 18-1/2 miles north and where the cargo is dropped off at the interchange yard owned by the Army. This interchange yard has six or seven tracks parallel to each other and the commercial railroad drops the cargo off there and leaves it. Sunny Point has their own locomotives and they go up to the interchange yard, pick up the cargo there, and bring it in to Sunny Point. www.carolana.com/NC/Transportation/railroads/nc_rrs_sun...

This line leading to the south also goes to Brunswick Nuclear power plant, as well as a coal fired plant also a a petroleum offloading/loading terminal.

The Army has agreed with two other local rail users, Carolina Power & Light and Archer Daniels Midland, to bring some of their cargo down the railroad and put it into one of their yards before they get to Sunny Point. These private firms pay Sunny Point MOT so much a car to deliver and then they pick them up later and take them back to the railyard in Leland.