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News Digest: DOT Awards More Than $7 Million To Improve Freight Transportation Options to Southern Oregon and Northern California

Document Series:
Press Releases
Press Release Number
DOT 48-13
Contact Name
Kevin Thompson
Contact Phone Number
202-493-6024
Subject:
Freight Operations
Keywords:
Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad, short line railroads

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today awarded more than $7 million to the State of Oregon through a TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant to support a $9.4 million project that will rehabilitate a 296-mile stretch of short line railroad track operated by the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad.   The project will help improve tunnels, rails, ties and bridges.  As the track runs parallel to I-5 between Northern California and Oregon, reopening the line provides an environmentally friendly, economically competitive alternative for shipping goods in the region.


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