FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway has delivered the first container loads to the vest-pocket intermodal ramp it opened in Oklahoma City for retailer Hobby Lobby.
The first containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., were delivered to the 42-acre terminal on Dec. 31. Locomotive Engineer Dane Sargent and Conductor Kolic Edwards were in charge of the New Year’s Eve delivery, BNSF said on Monday.
In September BNSF and Hobby Lobby announced their terminal partnership, which aims to streamline the craft retailer’s supply chain and allow loaded containers to move directly from the Southern California ports to its network of distribution centers in Oklahoma City. [See “BNSF to open OKC terminal…,” Trains.com, Sept. 4, 2025.]
Other businesses will be able to use the facility for export to the West Coast.
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Gotta handle all that Chinese junque.
Looks like a string of Anheuser Busch beer cars to the right. Makes sense because the new intermodal terminal is just south of I-240, and the beer distributor is nearby, just north of I-240, which is close to the massive Hobby-Lobby distribution complex.
Make that next to BNSF’s Flynn Yard, further east. I guess there is a newer A-B warehouse nearby. Vantage point for the above photo must be the yard tower.
Is that one locomotive for each container?
BNSF is the only Class I that I have a modicum of confidence in. Jim Vena needs a Hobby.