Union Pacific Celebrates Its Newest Intermodal Terminal in the Heart of America – Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 7, 2025--

Union Pacific Railroad celebrated the grand opening of its newest intermodal terminal today in Kansas City, Kansas. This is the fourth intermodal facility Union Pacific has opened since 2021 as part of its ongoing commitment to quickly meet customers’ needs and grow the railroad’s intermodal footprint.

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The Kansas City Intermodal Terminal (KCIT) is strategically located near several key highway and interstate arteries that will provide shippers seamless access to Union Pacific’s intermodal rail network, with fast, truck-competitive transit times.

“This new terminal reflects our commitment to building for the future and providing our customers with convenient and cost-effective access to the U.S. supply chain,” said Kenny Rocker, executive vice president-Marketing and Sales at Union Pacific Railroad. “Our customers want faster, more reliable freight options and this terminal delivers.”

The terminal will serve both domestic and international containerized shipments of grains, consumer goods, refrigerated products, and auto parts in the Midwest region, and will help to convert more truck traffic to rail, which will reduce congestion on the nation’s highways and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

The new terminal also will significantly increase Union Pacific’s local capacity with room available for future growth. It includes two new paved parking lots, additional working tracks for peak efficiency and will feature precision gate technology, providing truckers with automatic entry and exit.

Union Pacific also announced it will shift its KCIT domestic service from the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) terminal in Long Beach, California, to the City of Industry terminal in Southern California. Domestic units moving to KCIT will now benefit from Union Pacific’s expedited premium network six days a week, offering a more than 25% faster journey and up to 25 hours in savings compared to current industry options, with just over 2.5 days transit.

Making the change to City of Industry will complement the KCIT terminal and allow for expanded market access, efficient drayage management and enhanced logistics planning. Units originating in Kansas City will continue to utilize the existing expedited premium train to the City of Industry terminal.

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KCIT is the fourth intermodal facility Union Pacific has opened since 2021.

Union Pacific Railroad officially cut the ribbon for its new Kansas City Intermodal Terminal. From left, Ryan Steinbach, assistant vice president-Premium; Kari Kirchhoefer, senior vice president-Marketing and Sales; Kenny Rocker, executive vice president-Marketing and Sales; Hunsdon Cary, vice president-Premium; Laura Heisterkamp, assistant vice president-Premium; and Zach Russell, general manager-Premium.

A federal judge in Minnesota on Thursday ordered the release of a Liberian man four days after heavily armed immigration agents broke into his home using a battering ram and arrested him.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan said in his ruling that the agents violated Garrison Gibson’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.

“To arrest him, Respondents forcibly entered Garrison G.’s home without his consent and without a judicial warrant,” he said.

The Department of Homeland Security has been ramping up immigration arrests in Minnesota in what the department has called its largest enforcement operation. DHS says its officers have arrested more than 2,500 people since Nov. 29.

Marc Prokosch, Gibson’s attorney, said he was “thrilled” by the judge's order. He had filed a habeas corpus petition, used by courts to determine if an imprisonment is legal, and called the arrest a “blatant constitutional violation" since the agents did not have a proper warrant.

Gibson’s wife was inside their Minneapolis home with the couple’s 9-year-old child during the raid. Prokosch said she was deeply shaken by the arrest.

Gibson, 37, was being held at an immigration detention center in Albert Lea after being held at a large camp on the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, according to ICE’s detainee locator.

DHS did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press requesting comment on the order and has not responded to a prior email with follow-up questions about Gibson’s case.

Gibson, who fled the Liberian civil war as a child, had been ordered removed from the U.S., apparently because of a 2008 drug conviction that was later dismissed by the courts. He had remained in the country legally under what’s known as an order of supervision, with the requirement that he meet regularly with immigration authorities.

Only days before his arrest, Gibson had checked in with immigration authorities at regional immigration offices — the same building where agents have been staging enforcement raids in recent weeks.

Bryan said in his Thursday order that he agrees with Gibson's assertions that since he had already been released on an order of supervision, officials “violated applicable regulations” by not giving him enough notice that it had been revoked and the reasoning, as well as not providing him an interview right after he was detained.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department, had said that Gibson has “a lengthy rap sheet (that) includes robbery, drug possession with intent to sell, possession of a deadly weapon, malicious destruction and theft.” She did not indicate if those were arrests, charges or convictions.

Court records indicate Gibson’s legal history shows only the one felony in 2008, along with a few traffic violations, minor drug arrests and an arrest for riding public transportation without paying the fare.

The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — has been wracked by fear and anger in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good, who was shot Jan. 7 during a confrontation with agents. On Wednesday, a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a shovel and broom handle.

A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)