VICTORVILLE, Calif. — Officials in Victorville have terminated longstanding plans to build an intermodal facility, which have become outdated with BNSF Railway’s plan to build its $1.5 billion Barstow International Gateway.
The Victorville Daily Press reports that Victorville’s city council last week dissolved an agreement to develop the Southern California Logistics Rail Authority, approved by the council in 2007 as part of an agreement to build the intermodal facility at Southern California Logistics Airport, a former air force base used for cargo service and aircraft storage.
BNSF had signed a memorandum of understanding to explore development of the Victorville facility as part of the council’s action in 2007, but the railroad last year announced its plans for the Barstow facility, which will include a yard, intermodal facility, and warehouses for transloading [see “BNSF to build $1.5 billion facility in Barstow …,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 1, 2022].
As a result, Victorville officials say, “It has become apparent there is no longer a need or justification” for the facility adjacent to the airport.
