The CSX Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal is not a film set from the next Star Trek, but a logistics hub through which nearly 50 million tons of freight passes every year.
GE’s Evolution Series locomotives control the overall flow of the containers, which are then moved, stacked, rotated, tracked, and taken out again in a semi-automated nightly ballet as everyone else remains asleep.
The whole thing is a futuristic glimpse of landscape-scale robotics at work—yet it’s simply how goods move around the country and the world, a well-tempered infrastructural dream of synchronized moves and otherworldly lighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkY04jkgRqo
Give in to the hypnosis of watching choreographed megastructures move past and around one another in the video, above. [GE]
All photos by Chris New
