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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 22 May 2016 - 08:03 PM

The Athens (OH) News, 5/21:

Trains will be rolling through Athens County again

Holding company seeks approval for daily train operations on line that runs through county

 

By late July, Athens County residents living near the old Norfolk Southern railroad line likely will hear daily train whistles again, a sound that’s been missing the last three and a half months.

 

On Feb. 4, Norfolk Southern railroad sent a final train on its West Virginia Secondary line, which runs through or near most of Athens County’s largest communities, including the city of Athens.

 

In a news release May 20, Watco Transportation Services, LLC, (WTS) announced that its subsidiary, the Kanawha River Railroad, had reached an agreement with Norfolk Southern “to lease and increase operations on 309 miles of rail line in Ohio and West Virginia.”

 

The line includes a section that runs from just southeast of Columbus, Ohio, to Alloy, West Virginia (30 miles southeast of Charleston, West Virginia), passing through Athens County. It had been known as the West Virginia Secondary line, which Norfolk Southern mothballed earlier this year as a result of declining business, especially coal.

 

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Posted 25 May 2016 - 02:33 PM

WATCO news release:

 

Kanawha River Railroad to begin operations
 

 

PITTSBURG, KS, May 20, 2016 – The Kanawha River Railroad (KNWA), a subsidiary of Watco Transportation Services, LLC (WTS) has reached a definitive agreement with Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS) to lease and increase operations on 309 miles of rail line in Ohio and West Virginia. The lines run from Refugee, Ohio (just southeast of Columbus) to Alloy, West Virginia, and Cornelia, West Virginia, to Mullens, West Virginia. The KNWA plans to begin the process of seeking approval of the transaction from the Surface Transportation Board (STB) today, and expects to begin operations in July of 2016.






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