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Multimodal News * USA - Engineering a new rail to spur freight traffic
Train travel between Hampton Roads and the Midwest is getting more efficient, which should boost shipments on the routeNewport News,VA,USA -The Daily Press, by PETER DUJARDIN -Dec 3, 2006: -- The Heartland Corridor initiative, as it's now called, is a $309 million effort that will renovate 28 railroad tunnels - 23 in West Virginia, four in Virginia and one in Kentucky - enabling them to accommodate Norfolk Southern's double-stacked trains... Three train depots will be added along the route, and a section of railway in Hampton Roads will be moved... That should help take some of the pressure off existing roads, such as Route 460 and I-64, as the port grows. The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, a state agency, predicts the Heartland Corridor could take 150,000 trucks off Virginia's roads annually... (Photo, Handout/Daily Press: A Norfolk Southern train, with two containers on almost every car, winds its way through the mountains in the southwestern corner of Virginia)
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