Heartland Corridor - Raising the Roof

The Heartland Corridor is a rail freight route connecting the busy Virginia ports and the Midwest. In one of the biggest railroad engineering projects in the past century -- a feat that took three years to complete and is scheduled to open Sept. 9 -- Norfolk Southern modified 28 tunnels to accommodate double-stack containers. The new gateway is 250 miles shorter and saves a day or more of transit time, making it the shortest, fastest double-stack route between the East Coast and the Midwest. It benefits freight customers and doubles Norfolk Southern's capacity to handle the growth in international intermodal shipments. It also provides communities along the corridor with greater access to world markets, reducing highway congestion, fuel use, and emissions, and improving public safety.

The Heartland Corridor is a public-private partnership among Norfolk Southern and several federal and state entities. Together, they are delivering the economic and environmental benefits of enhanced rail infrastructure -- and creating a competitive advantage for America.

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[ChamplainDivision]

Why do they keep showing footage of trains moving over the P-Line at Gallitzin, PA which is not on the Heartland Corridor?

[santoro2020]

Sweet, I gotta check out where Chicago Line and this corridor meet, if they do accordingly to the maps I've seen.

[aa5821]

Great stuff! Kinda bummed to see the old brick liners being cut out of the tunnels, but if that's the cost of progress, nobody else is going to miss them...

[PRRK4Lover]

6:43 Gallitzin

awesome, but now there will be less doublestacks on horseshoe :(