New Bridge in Bluefield

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 Tim:  Maybe it's because the report indicates the bridge will cross the Norfolk Southern RAILWAY -- you remember -- the NS that was the abbreviation for "Nothing Slower" railroad that operated Norfolk-Charlotte on 100# rail.
    On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 10:21:50 AM EST, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
  If the Heartland Corridor installation at Prichard couldn't make it, why would the Bluefield area need an intermodal facility?
Tim Hensley

    On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 07:10:03 AM EST, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
 
 

USDOT issues grants for rural rail project in  West Virginia

In Bluefield, West Virginia, the $13.5 million grant to the state's Department of Transportation will help fund construction of an overpass bridge and road improvements on an approach to an intermodal facility. The project will replace an existing one-lane, signal-controlled railroad underpass (Old Bramwel Road/County Route 11/Midway Tunnel) with an overpass that includes separated pedestrian and bicycle accommodations.

Midway Tunnel is a 128-year-old, 195-foot-long underpass on Old Bramwell Road (Mercer County Route 11) that passes under eight Norfolk Southern Railway tracks and associated rail yard. Replacing the underpass with an overpass will make possible the development of an intermodal facility and also will reconnect the disadvantaged Midway community located along Old Bramwell Road and the rest of Bluefield, which are separated by the railroad, according to the USDOT's project fact sheet.

 

Kenneth Borg
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