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Port Authority Moves Ahead With ExpressRail Project

ELIZABETH, NJ-The Authority completed two major components of its $600-million project, and also picked up $48.3 million in federal stimulus money for PATH security.

By Alyson Grala | Updated on September 25, 2009

ELIZABETH, NJ-The Port Authority recently completed two major components of the Port of New York and New Jersey’s $600 million ExpressRail project, which will allow 1.3 million cargo containers to be shipped by rail, and take close to three million trucks off state and local roads.

The agency finished construction of a second lead track to the ExpressRail Elizabeth facility so that trains can arrive and depart simultaneously. In addition, construction was completed on a rail support facility along Corbin Street that will handle four 10,000-foot trains daily.

These projects are the culmination of a multiyear effort to promote the use of rail for cargo transport. In anticipation of the new lines, Norfolk Southern has already developed a new direct service to Harrisburg, PA and CSX will begin a new direct service to Buffalo at the end of this month.

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