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NS, NCRR and NCDOT continue to team up on improvements

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NS, NCRR and NCDOT continue to team up on improvements
Posted by matthewsaggie on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:13 PM

From Todays BLE website:

NS partners with North Carolina Railroad, state to upgrade 43 crossings

(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 29.)

Norfolk Southern Railway, North Carolina Railroad Co. (NCRR) and the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Rail Division are teaming up to upgrade 43 public grade crossings between Selma and Morehead City.

The $7.6 million project will take about three years to complete. The state will provide about 56 percent of project costs through federal crossing safety funds. NCRR - which manages a 317-mile Morehead City-to-Charlotte rail corridor - will cover about 24 percent and NS, about 20 percent of remaining costs.

Part of the state's program to enhance crossing safety by adding or improving signals and gates, the project calls for installing warning devices at certain crossings and closing others.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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