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Re: (rshsdepot) Arthur Kill Bridge Reopens after 17 years

How far are these trains going into Staten Island?

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>From: jdent1_@_optonline.net
>Sent: Apr 3, 2007 2:36 PM
>To: "rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net" <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: (rshsdepot) Arthur Kill Bridge Reopens after 17 years
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>Railroad bridge reopens after 17 years, $160M
>Posted by The Star-Ledger April 02, 2007 11:50AM
>Categories: News
>A railroad bridge across the Arthur Kill reopened this morning when freight train chugged through the fog on its way from Elizabeth to pick up a shipment of garbage in Staten Island.
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>After workers loaded 16 cargo containers of garbage onto the train, it is scheduled to head back across the refurbished lift bridge this afternoon and bring the trash to a transfer station in Elizabeth.
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>New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey invested $160 million to refurbish the bridge, which had been closed for 17 years.
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>For the next several weeks, one garbage train per day will cross the bridge into New Jersey. If things run well, a second train - this one hauling freight cars from New York Container Terminal - will also use the bridge every day.
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>Port Authority officials estimate that the rail bridge will divert more than 40,000 trucks from the Goethals Bridge during its first year of operation.
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>Contributed by Joe Malinconico
>
>Jim Dent
>Oakland, NJ
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