Shippers such as Southern Oregon lumber mills are seeking grants to improve railroad tunnels.
Shippers such as Southern Oregon lumber mills are seeking grants to improve railroad tunnels.
One project would provide $4 million in state money to raise the heights on four tunnels near Glendale, just north of the Josephine-Douglas county line. That would permit taller, high-capacity box cars.
The other project would use $10 million in federal money to pay for most of a $12.5 million project to improve tunnels on the tracks connecting the Rogue Valley and Northern California. Regular runs on the line were discontinued in 2008 during a dispute over freight fees between shippers and the RailAmerica unit Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad.
Read more at The Register-Guard.
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