Posted on 06/02/2011 11:40:30 AM PDT by re_tail20
Project helps solve long-standing bottleneck for East Coast cargo A century-old train tunnel in the District will be upgraded, after railroad company CSX pledged $160 million on Wednesday to help ease a major bottleneck that currently limits cargo passing through the Washington region.
The money means that the freight shipper can start a long-sought process to expand the Virginia Avenue Tunnel that runs from Second Street to 11th Street just below the Capitol in Southeast. The project will widen and increase the height of the tunnel so trains can carry a double-stacked load of shipping containers. The expanded tunnel also will have a second set of tracks to allow more than one train to pass through the area at a time.
"It creates additional efficiencies," CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan said. "It enables you to handle additional cargo without having to add trains."
Most people likely will never notice the tunnel because passenger trains don't use it and it lies in the shadow of the Southeast Freeway near the Navy Yard. But it provides a key link to get cargo in and out of the area.
CSX also says the project will have other benefits as the growing Washington region requires more products -- food, building materials and coal, for example. Every fully loaded double-stacked train carries the equivalent of 280 trucks-worth of cargo, Sullivan said, meaning less congestion on local roadways and less need for additional highways.
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Why do this?
Methinks a blockade of the cretins in D.C.would be more appropriate.
Let them eat Obama.
In my movie, the construction company that does this work would be a front for some malevolent Muzlim group. After everything is in place, they blow up Capitol Hill.
Ummmm....Ummmmmm.....Uh.
Look up the Tiber Canal in Washington, DC.
Sorry, Tiber CREEK.
Lincoln’s kid caught malaria in this creek - this is why he moved out of the WH.
Currently, it is buried - the SS guards all entryways.
How to know you are in deep doo-doo in the SS - you are assigned to guard a sewer.
It’s called Tiber Creek. I live here, and I know where the trains run.
Ah, my place of birth - in the 48 contiguous states, but not within a state. Just abobe Tiber Creek.
Foggy Bottom, actually. Can you imagine me a a diplomat?
Shoot. I put the “b” back in “subtle”.
As I am sure you are aware, the area where the CSX trains run is nowhere near Foggy Bottom. Coming from Virginia, it runs through Southeast parallel to the Southeast freeway. Just west of Navy Yard it passes by that little brief part of Virginia Avenue that is in Southeast between South Capital and New Jersey Avenue. Virginia Ave. starts up again South of the Southeast freeway. The bottleneck is the Virginia Ave. tunnel beginning at 2nd St SE (heading northeast). There was a huge stink about that rail route after 9/11.
You should not stop taking the medications the Doctor gave you.
I don’t understand your comment. I do not take medicines of any kind. My religion forbids it.
I miss read your post, you were speaking of a movie, not real life.
Thinking that a terrist organization could mask as a very large heavy construction company would show a need for medication.
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