Disney to use JaxPort

[Timkin]

I am just happy Disney is using Jax.  At the end of the day, this is a good thing for us and I think we can all agree to just be glad they are !

[Ocklawaha]

Apparently they handle cargo containers, just smaller ones than is needed for Disney.

Translation:  There is a lot o' plastic junk coming from China to JaxPort.

That "container crane" looks like quite the rig, LOL! Hardly standard fare. I would imagine they are not handling anything for Disney in the way of plastic junk, because that will involve huge (read trainloads of containers) volumes. If they handle anything for Disney at the cargo port it is probably parts and supplies for the cruise ships.

They do have an amazing space for the container port on the north side but without rail it's growth potential is about slim to a not much. IF, and this is a huge IF, the current FECI rails reach Cocoa, and they manage to hammer out a deal to use trackage rights over NASA'S railroad (something denied in the past due to remote possibilities of interference with the Shuttle and other launches). It really would be as simple as a short extension southward, and setting up a class system for train dispatch. NASA and USAF trains would run as first class with an absolute no interference policy, the port trains would run as second class, inferior to all first class trains. It's an easy fix if they can pull it off, but it will still require 10+ miles of track and a 3-4 mile bridge and causeway or a longer route past the VAB and south through Cape Canaveral AFB. 

OCKLAWAHA

[mtraininjax]

It really would be as simple as a short extension southward, and setting up a class system for train dispatch. NASA and USAF trains would run as first class with an absolute no interference policy, the port trains would run as second class, inferior to all first class trains. It's an easy fix if they can pull it off, but it will still require 10+ miles of track and a 3-4 mile bridge and causeway or a longer route past the VAB and south through Cape Canaveral AFB. 

Simple, but not easy, that is still Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and it is not easy to get on that facility, still to this day. The rail lines you speak of have closed gates on both sides of the road, basically saying, go away. Sure it CAN be done, but this will not happen without a decommissioning of the NASA area or CCAFS going away all together from this location.

The CC docks are paltry compared to Miami, Jax, Tampa, FTL, the state is setting up its best candidates to serve cargo, why go to the expense to add yet another candidate? Why add all this, when the docks are already thriving with 2-3 cruise ships each week? That is their bread and butter our of Port Canaveral, not containers.