Rice Yard in Waycross, Georgia, is CSX Transportation’s largest yard in Georgia, occupying more than 700 acres.
Waycross is a strategic location on the CSX system, located at the convergence of two major corridors: the Interstate 95 Corridor linking the Northeast and Southeast (stretching from New York to Miami) and the Southeastern Corridor linking CSX’s western gateways of Chicago, St. Louis, and Memphis to Atlanta and markets in the Southeast.
The hump classification yard has 64 tracks to sort and classify merchandise carload traffic. In 2013, the yard processed 667,807 cars, making it the second busiest freight classification yard on the CSX system.
