Start Date: Q4 2010 Estimated Completion: Q4 2010

Walnut Street

Lower Tracks - Undercut Location

Tracks will be lowered beneath the Walnut Street Bridge in the City of McKeesport. The track lowering can be completed with two passes of an undercutter, each requiring a short-duration track outage. All work will be completed within CSXT right-of-way, and will have little or no impact on the adjacent properties, including the bridge structure, or the Youghiogheny River.

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McKeesport Walnut Street
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Update & Progress

Public Meetings for National Gateway Clearance Projects in Allegheny, Bedford, and Somerset Counties
March 01, 2010

Somerset
March 9, 2010 4:30 p.m.to 7:30 p.m. Open House Format
Quality Inn Conference Center
215 Ramada Road
Somerset, PA 15501

Pittsburgh
March 4, 2010 4:30 p.m.to 7:30 p.m. Open House Format
University Club at Pitt
123 University Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

CSX Transportation (CSXT) will host two public open houses to discuss the National Gateway rail infrastructure enhancements.

The initiative involves bridge replacements, tunnel work, and track lowerings along CSXT’s railroad between Coraopolis and Hyndman, Pennsylvania to obtain necessary vertical clearance required to allow more efficient and environmentally beneficial double-stack trains to pass.

SNOW CANCELLATION NOTICE: Public Meetings for National Gateway Clearance Projects in Allegheny, Bedford, and Somerset Counties
February 08, 2010

Due to the snow emergency, the public meetings scheduled for National Gateway projects in Allegheny, Bedford and Somerset Counties have been cancelled. The meetings were to be held Tuesday, February 9 at the Quality Inn Conference Center in Somerset, Pennsylvania and Wednesday, February 10 at the University Club at Pitt in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These meetings will be rescheduled and announced shortly.

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