When:
November 8, 2017 @ 11:30 am
2017-11-08T11:30:00-08:00
2017-11-08T12:00:00-08:00
Where:
Hotel RL Olympia
2300 Evergreen Park Dr SW
Olympia, WA 98502
USA
2300 Evergreen Park Dr SW
Olympia, WA 98502
USA
Cost:
$35 for general admission; $25 for online prepaid Chamber members and $30 for members at the door.
Washington’s 28 freight railroads operate over 3,056 miles of track and employ close to 4,000 people. It would have taken approximately 6.6 million additional truckloads to move the 119 million tons of freight that moved by rail in Washington in 2014. Intermodal shipments, mostly originating at the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma, make up the largest part of freight rail shipments beginning in Washington. Intermodal and farm products are the largest rail imports to the state.
The community has the opportunity to learn how freight rail impacts Thurston County and why it is an often overlooked workhorse of our economic infrastructure.
