The Locke It In Podcast

This episode covers BNSF Logistics Park Chicago (LPC), a major intermodal freight facility located at 26664 Elwood International Port Road, Elwood, IL 60421. This 770-acre terminal, operational since August 2002, serves as a critical inland port for distributing international containers from West Coast ports such as Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, and Tacoma.

W elcome back to the Locke It in podcast, The Terminals Series, talking about the massive number Terminals that dot the greater Chicagoland area.  Today we are talking about the BNSF Chicago (Willow Springs) Intermodal Facility in Hodgkins, Illinois –The smallest of BNSF’s Chicago intermodal yards, at 186-acres. 

Today we are talking about the BNSF Chicago Cicero Intermodal Facility. Located at 5601 W. 26th Street in Cicero, Illinois. This terminal is one of Chicago’s key intermodal hubs, linking the Windy City, to the Pacific Northwest by rail every day, long double-stack trains roll in from Seattle and Tacoma, carrying containers from major steamship lines – think Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, COSCO...

Sit down with Sarah Zemke, Adam Miller and Joe Kalina, hear from the team that keeps track of your shipments.

Chris Carroll of BWE, who provides capital stack solutions for commercial and multifamily investors, developers, and property owners joins Adam Ekstein of Locke Transportation to chat about a recent student housing deal and logistics played a role component.