ROANOKE, Va. — A Norfolk Southern local train once heralded as the future of trash hauling is likely to suspend service this coming summer. Known as the “Waste Line Express,” the train has hauled trash from Roanoke along a 4.5-mile spur to th…
Looks dumb to me. At $800,000 per year that is a 31.25 year payback. The road will certainly not last that longwith that kind of traffic.
O, in about 2 years of hauling down the country roads, the locals will love driving down perminent swim lanes. That is unless that $ 25 m inlcudes rebuilding the local roads to interstate standards to weight.
It will be a private haul road with no standards. Probably have an expected life of 5 tears max if paved. Haul roads in the mines out here are dirt and constantly graded, which does not come cheap.
I suspect the county wonders why they have financial issues. This kind of thinking will have them bankrupt well before the end of the payback period.
The waste line express
Norfolk Southern carries trash out of Roanoke, Virginia
by Biesenbach, Betsy
from Trains June 1996 p. 62
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