The Eye-Popping Science Fiction Of Freight Yards At Night

The Eye-Popping Science Fiction Of Freight Yards At Night

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 tonnes 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 Eye-Popping Science Fiction Of Freight Yards At Night

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 synchronised moves and otherworldly lighting.

Give in to the hypnosis of watching choreographed megastructures move past and around one another in the video, above. [GE]

The Eye-Popping Science Fiction Of Freight Yards At Night

The Eye-Popping Science Fiction Of Freight Yards At Night


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