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Pennsylvania awards grants for 24 rail projects
The real story is, once these railroads accept the grant money, they have for all legal purposes, turned their track over to the government, which will determine what the railroad will be used for at some future date, as the government determined need arises. In other words, say the government no longer wants the refinery because the environ-mentalists determined oil is bad. The government can keeps its voter base happy by forcing the refinery to shut down. What better way than taking over that track paid for by government grant money, taken from the taxpayer.
Poor Jeffery. He doesn’t understand that this past election has shown that people like him are obsolete.BTW keep your nose out of my state’s affairs and tend to your own state.My state can get along without your input.
Disappointing not to see any kind of passenger rail or transit project among any of these projects.
they shouldnt of gave the money to fix the tracks for the southwest penna, r/r unless they renew the lease for the fayette central tourist railroad.
I can’t speak for the other operations, but the Allegheny Valley RR is an important short line link between many customers and the Class I’s in Pittsburgh and Western PA. Improving Glenwood Yard should help the AVRR improve service and increase revenue and profits and - hey! - the AVRR pays taxes on those profits, don’t they? That’s a reasonable use of tax dollars, isn’t it? Oh, Mr. Spangler, I guess that’s our problem: our thinking is too reasonable.
Does anyone know where in Washington County the W&LE wants to build a siding?
Hey Jeffrey, You live in IL, this is none of your business!
Jeff frequently posts his collective stupidity. Obviously not a railroader, one wonders why he is even here. Perhaps as a person from Colorado, I should tell him how to run Illinois