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10/24/2012
Rail News: CSX Transportation
Making headway on National Gateway: CSX halfway through intermodal initiative's first phase
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At a ceremony held yesterday in Pittsburgh, CSX Corp. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Ward joined federal, commonwealth of Pennsylvania and local officials to mark the midway point of the National Gateway's first phase of projects.
Launched in 2008, the National Gateway is an $850 million public-private partnership initiative designed to alleviate freight bottlenecks in the Midwest by creating a double-stack route for intermodal shipments moving between that region and mid-Atlantic ports.
The ceremony was held at Pittsburgh's SouthSide Works, where a $13 million J&L Tunnel project soon will become the latest first-phase project to increase vertical clearance for CSX intermodal trains. The entire first phase — which calls for creating double-stack access between the Class I's intermodal terminals in North Baltimore, Ohio, and Chambersburg, Pa. — is slated for completion by spring 2013.
An upgrade to a tunnel built in the 1880s that runs directly through the SouthSide Works complex, the clearance project will help alleviate congestion on regional highways and improve access to lower-cost intermodal freight shipping, CSX officials said in a prepared statement.
National Gateway projects are being funded by CSX, the federal government and several states, including a $35 million Pennsylvania Transportation Assistance Program grant and $30 million from Ohio.
"We are proud that we have been able to work with our partners in the federal and state government, communities and the private sector to invest in strategic transportation infrastructure that will alleviate highway congestion and enable our customers to better leverage rail, the most environmentally friendly way to ship goods over land," said Ward.
Launched in 2008, the National Gateway is an $850 million public-private partnership initiative designed to alleviate freight bottlenecks in the Midwest by creating a double-stack route for intermodal shipments moving between that region and mid-Atlantic ports.
The ceremony was held at Pittsburgh's SouthSide Works, where a $13 million J&L Tunnel project soon will become the latest first-phase project to increase vertical clearance for CSX intermodal trains. The entire first phase — which calls for creating double-stack access between the Class I's intermodal terminals in North Baltimore, Ohio, and Chambersburg, Pa. — is slated for completion by spring 2013.
An upgrade to a tunnel built in the 1880s that runs directly through the SouthSide Works complex, the clearance project will help alleviate congestion on regional highways and improve access to lower-cost intermodal freight shipping, CSX officials said in a prepared statement.
National Gateway projects are being funded by CSX, the federal government and several states, including a $35 million Pennsylvania Transportation Assistance Program grant and $30 million from Ohio.
"We are proud that we have been able to work with our partners in the federal and state government, communities and the private sector to invest in strategic transportation infrastructure that will alleviate highway congestion and enable our customers to better leverage rail, the most environmentally friendly way to ship goods over land," said Ward.
