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Article: CSXT schedules rehabilatation blitz for March. (Industry Today).(CSX Transportation)
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- Railway Track and Structures
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Beginning March 17, CSX Transportation will close down for rehabilitation its mainline between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans and between Flomaton and Montgomery, Ala. Work is scheduled to conclude March 20, and the line reopen the next day. During this period, CSXT will have 11 tie and rail gangs and more than 700 employees in the area working around the clock.
As part of this mainline rehabilitation, CSXT employees will install approximately 79,000 ties and 150,000 feet of rail. They will rebuild a 900-foot-long bridge, surface 71 miles of mainline track and reconstruct numerous road crossings. Last ...