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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Despite the excitement evident in the article,
judging from the accompanying map, this corridor would barely knick West
Virginia. To be competitive with the Heartland Corridor, you'd think
they'd raise the tunnels along the former C&O mainline. This just
gives more support to the idea that CSX has ceded Hampton Roads and its status
as a day closer to Europe and the rest of the world to NS. Looks more
like an effort to boost the port of Wilmington, which is at least a day further
from the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic than Hampton Roads, than a serious effort to
boost export/import container traffic.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sam Putney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> CSX to raise tunnels</DIV>
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<H1><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.herald-dispatch.com/business/x786767294/CSX-would-allow-double-stack-trains-through-Mid-Atlantic"
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<BR><BR></FONT><B>CSX would allow double-stack trains through
Mid-Atlantic</B></H1>November 14, 2009 @ 10:35 PM<BR><BR>JEAN TARBETT
HARDIMAN<BR><BR>The Herald-Dispatch<BR><BR>As Prichard and southwestern West
Virginia get ready Norfolk Southern Corp.'s double-stacked trains to move
through, the eastern part of the state is looking forward to a project by CSX.
<BR><BR>The rail company also is planning to embark on a project to raise
tunnels to accommodate double-stack trains through the Mid-Atlantic region.
<BR><BR>The $842 million National Gateway project would affect Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, and is intended to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions from trucks on the highway, as well as saving $3.5
billion in shipper and logistics costs, significantly increase freight
capacity, reduce transit times between West Coast ports and major population
and triple the market access potential for some ports on the East Coast.
<BR><BR>There's a prediction that freight transportation is going to increase
by 70 percent over the next 20 years, said CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan. Moving
it to rail rather than trucks will reduce greenhouse emissions, he said.
<BR><BR>"What (using double-stacked trains) does is really open access to more
markets and service, so shippers in West Virginia have easier access to
markets they have now," Sullivan said. "It also will ease the flow of goods
into West Virginia as well." <BR><BR>The path of the double stacked trains
would stretch from Wilmington, N.C., up the East Coast and northeastward
through the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
<BR><BR>Along the National Gateway, the nearest intermodal distribution
facility to West Virginia will be in Pittsburgh. <BR><BR>CSX is committing
$395 million to the National Gateway project, and it's asking for $258 million
in federal stimulus grants through the Transportation Investment Generating
Economic Recovery (TIGER) Discretionary Grants Program. State's are being
asked for $250 million. <BR><BR>About $60 million will be spent in West
Virginia, to clear six tunnels in the state. But West Virginia is being asked
to contribute $5 million to the project, Sullivan said. <BR><BR>
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