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Construction Manager Mike Checket talks Monday about a  Norfolk Southern 
project in Antrim Township, Pa. (By Jennifer  Fitch/Staff Writer) 


 
 
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By JENNIFER FITCH waynesboro at herald-mail.com  
7:09 p.m. EST, November 21,  2011

 
GREENCASTLE, Pa.— 
In Antrim Township, Pa., today’s muddy field is the future’s $95 million  
rail-truck facility driving the region’s economy.

_Norfolk Southern_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/economy-business-finance/norfolk-southern-corporation-ORCRP010911.topic)  officials hosted a tour 
of  their 200-acre intermodal facility site for the media and U.S. Rep. 
_Bill Shuster_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/topic/politics/bill-shuster-PEPLT006038.topic) , R-Pa., on Monday. Construction _vehicles_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-norfolk-southern-officials-host-tour-of-intermodal-site-2011112
1,0,651424.story#)   continue to snake through the fields off Milnor and 
Hykes roads, which are near  Pennsylvania’s exit 3 of Interstate 81.

 
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At the end of next year, Norfolk Southern expects to  open the intermodal 
facility, where 650 _trucks_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-norfolk-southern-officials-host-tour-of-intermodal-site-20111121,0,651424.story#)  will  
drop off and pick up containerized freight each day. Containers weighing up 
to  34 tons each will be transferred between tractor-trailers and trains.

“Ultimately, it’s about taking the  long-haul _truck_ 
(http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-norfolk-southern-officials-host-tour-of-intermodal-site-20111
121,0,651424.story#)  off the  highway,” said Darrell Wilson, Norfolk 
Southern’s assistant vice president of  government relations.

On Milnor Road,  Construction Manager Mike Checket explained how the road 
will have a cul-de-sac  after it closes permanently in two weeks. That area 
will eventually have a  concrete area for the tractor-trailers and containers.

“We’ve been blasting for four months now, and we have a few  more weeks 
left,” Checket said of site work off Milnor Road.

Norfolk Southern presented Antrim Township  officials with a $300,000 check 
for improvements they’ll need to make to nearby  roads.

On Hykes Road, crews working for  Norfolk Southern are replacing a sewer 
line as cows watch from a nearby pasture.  A bridge will be built there as 
part of the project.

Corrugated pipe is being installed off Armada Drive, a new road  to the 
site and an undeveloped business park. Blasting for rock is occurring  there, 
too.

Shuster praised the project  for its direct and indirect employment of 275 
people.

“Of course, that has a ripple effect across the community and  region,” he 
said.

The project helps the  economy and reduces the number of trucks on 
highways, which 

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