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10/2/2023
The Sandersville Railroad Co. has announced Southern Chips LLC will be the fifth user of its planned rail spur in Hancock County, Georgia.
Southern Chips will use the spur to transport pulp and paper-quality wood chips to mills around the region, Sandersville officials said in a prses release.
Use of the Hanson Spur will enable Southern Chips to ship its product through access to the CSX network.
The 4.5-mile-long spur will connect to a CSX line that runs along Georgia Highway 16 in Hancock County to the Heidelberg Materials aggregate quarry in Sparta.
Southern Chips LLC joins Veal Farms Transload LLC, Revive Milling, LLC, Pittman Construction and Heidelberg Materials as confirmed users of the spur line. Sandersville Railroad expects the spur to be fully operational by the end of 2024.
Meanwhile, the Delaware & Raritan River Railroad has completed the rehabilitation of 5 miles of track between Freehold and Farmingdale, through Howell, New Jersey. The "F&S Connection" project was completed nine months ahead of schedule, railroad officials said in a press release.
On Sept. 15, the railroad ran a test train over the rebuilt track, marking the first train to run through between Freehold and Farmingdale since 1985. Regular train service on the line — which ended with the Penn Central in 1975 — will resume early this month October.
In addition to linking the railroad’s separate branches into one network, the project reroutes freight trains off of New Jersey Transit’s North Jersey Coastline, opens the southern branch for heavier 286K rail cars, consolidates interchange with Conrail at Jamesburg, and provides a shorter route to rail customers in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
The $12 million project was funded in large part by the New Jersey Department of Transportation's Rail Freight Assistance Program and the state's grade crossing improvement fund.