Port Milwaukee has received a $3 million state grant for work on the railroad track on Jones Island, paving the way for the potential resumption of intermodal container service.
The Port will contribute another $600,000 to the project, during which about 8,000 feet of track is to be modernized. Intermodal container service from Port Milwaukee was shut down by Canadian Pacific in September 2012 because of low volume, forcing some Milwaukee users to truck their containers to Chicago for rail transport.
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