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Article: Grants aid repair of damaged railroad bridges
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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IOWA CITY - Railroad companies have gotten the go-ahead to pump
several million federal dollars into repair and construction of
bridges that were swept away in the catastrophic flooding of 2008.
One railroad says the money came just in time.
The Federal Railroad Administration handed out $15 million in
flood relief grants through its Rehabilitation and Repair Program
last month, including three projects submitted by the Iowa
Department of Transportation.
The largest amount, about
$6.9 million, went toward the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway
Co. bridge in Cedar Rapids. Railroad officials called the bridge a
critical link between corn growers and the Archer Daniels Midland
processing plant ...