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Pennsylvania
Rendell, Norfolk Southern announce intermodal  rail facility
By KATE S. ALEXANDER
August 12, 2009
_kate.alexander at herald-mail.com_ (mailto:kate.alexander at herald-mail.com)  
 
_Rendell: Budget woes hurt libraries_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=228586&format=html)   
_Rendell defends position in budget crisis_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=228574&format=html)   
GREENCASTLE, Pa. — Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell showed his support for  
Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor initiative Wednesday, promising that his  
$45 million contribution will pass in the capital budget.  
“Whatever happens in the budget fight, this money will be in there and will 
 be over the next three years,” Rendell said.  
Together with the governor, Norfolk Southern announced Wednesday its plans 
to  build a $95 million intermodal rail facility in Franklin County, Pa.  
Spread over three years, the $45 million will help jump-start a  
public-private partnership between the Commonwealth, the federal government and  
Norfolk Southern, CEO Wick Moorman said.  
The Franklin County Regional Intermodal Facility joins four others in the  
state. Each is designed to allow transfer of freight between trains and 
trucks.  
Because of its strategic proximity to key markets, the Franklin County  
terminal is vital to the success of the high-speed freight route from Louisiana 
 to New Jersey, Moorman said.  
More than 2,300 miles of Norfolk Southern track run through Pennsylvania,  
including those that border the 200-acre site the company purchased in 
Antrim  Township.  
The site is now a corn field, said Jane Pittman, who, with her husband,  
George, owns 69 of the 200 acres being sold to Norfolk Southern.  
Even though she is losing her home of 40 years, Pittman said she 
understands  the role she will play in Franklin County’s economic future.  
“This is the anchor we have been waiting for,” said Gary Gembe, president 
of  the Greencastle-Antrim Area Development Corp. “This will have a domino 
effect on  development at Exit 3.”  
Nearly 1,000 acres surrounding Exit 3 are zoned for commercial and 
industrial  development.  
Norfolk Southern was drawn to the site’s proximity to the future Antrim  
Commons Business Park, owned by Baltimore-based Atapco, Moorman said.  
Yet, it was the support of neighbors and the community that sealed the 
deal,  he said.  
“(It was) that intangible factor, the business environment and community  
environment and the people who said ‘we want this here’ that we saw here in 
the  county,” he said.  
Investing in Crescent Corridor is sound economic policy for the 
Commonwealth,  Rendell said. He estimated that by 2015, the facility in Antrim Township 
will  employ 600 Pennsylvanians.  
Neighbors of the intermodal facility are invited to an informational 
meeting  Aug. 27 at 4 p.m. PennDOT will host the meeting at Green Grove Gardens on 
Pa.  16.
 
 (http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=media&media_id=39594)  
Kelly Hahn Johnson | Staff  Photographer
George and Jane Pittman, at right, look  at the location of their 69-acre 
farm with Russ Powell of Atapco prior to a  press conference held by Norfolk 
Southern at the Mason Dixon Auto Auction near  Exit 3 on I-81. The couple 
are selling their farm to Norfolk Southern._Purchase this photo_ 
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 (http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=media&media_id=39597)   
Kelly Hahn Johnson | Staff  Photographer
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell talks  about plans for the Franklin County 
Regional Intermodal Facility during a press  conference Wednesday at the 
Mason-Dixon Auto Auction._Purchase this photo_ (http://herald-mail.mycapture.com/) 

 (http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=media&media_id=39596)   
Kelly Hahn Johnson | Staff  Photographer
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell shakes  hands with Norfolk Southern CEO Wick 
Moorman following his remarks detailing  plans for the Franklin County 
Regional Intermodal Facility during a press  conference Wednesday at the 
Mason-Dixon Auto Auction._Purchase this photo_ (http://herald-mail.mycapture.com/) 

 (http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=media&media_id=39595)   
Kelly Hahn Johnson | Staff  Photographer
What are now farms and fields at the  Milnor Road crossing, near exit 3 on 
Interstate 81 in Franklin County, Pa., will  become Norfolk Southern's 
Franklin County Regional Intermodal Facility. The rail  facility will be a major 
access point in the Crescent Corridor, according to  Norfolk 
Southern._Purchase this photo_ (http://herald-mail.mycapture.com/) 

 
Jennifer Fitch | Staff Writer
State Sen. Richard Alloway,  R-Franklin/Adams/York, and Pennsylvania Gov. 
Ed Rendell addressed a crowd of 100  celebrating Norfolk Southern development 
coming to Antrim Township. Some footage  is provided by Norfolk Southern. 
Filmed 4-12-09._Purchase  this video_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaysection&section_id=113) 

 
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