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The crash site on February 5 Air monitoring device Workers digging up a creek and filtering the water at the entrance to a park Cleanup of a small creek. Nearly 70 emergency agencies from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania mobilized in response. [31] East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway declared a state of emergency. [32]
Area residents have proposed to create a 7.3-mile (11.7 km) pedestrian linear park to parallel the trackage of the abandoned Rahway Valley Railroad. [1] [2] The rail trail would lie eastbound from Overlook Medical Center on the edge of downtown Summit, and then lie south along the old track bed through Springfield, Union, and Kenilworth, before ending at the southwest edge of Roselle Park at ...
Holly Springs, Brownsville and Ohio Railroad - 1878 began a narrow-gauge line between Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Friendship via Brownsville. Grading was done between the last two places, and 12 miles (19 km) of track laid from the latter. [214] The intention was to build through Union City to opposite Cairo, Illinois, on the Ohio River. [215]
In a scathing letter, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro expressed “serious concerns” about Norfolk Southern's handling of the aftermath of the Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, just ...
Pennsylvania and New England Railroad; Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad; Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines; Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England Railroad; Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad; Pequest and Wallkill Railroad; Perth Amboy and ...
The railroad line was abandoned after 1964. [16] In 1966, the New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners (PUC) approved the sale of a 2.8-mile long (4.5 km) portion of the former railroad's right-of-way to Jersey Central Power & Light Company. [17] [16] In 1976, Conrail took over the
The state purchased the former railroad line property in 2022. When complete, the Essex-Hudson Greenway will become a 9-mile, 135-acre linear park. Essex-Hudson Greenway breaks ground soon.
Area Congressional Representatives Rob Andrews (NJ 1st-D) and Frank LoBiondo (NJ 2nd-R) visited the area and expressed concern and surprise that federal, state or local laws require public oversight of private safety inspection procedures. [12] Following the incident, Congressman Andrews criticized policies that may have led to the accident.