The railroad’s industrial development efforts have attracted two new customers on the Mansfield-to-Ashland segment over the past year, said Evan Scurti, director of Ashland Area Council for Economic Development, in a prepared statement. The short line now serves McFarland-Cascade, which uses the railroad to transport telephone poles, and a new Barbasol plant in Ashland.
The upgraded rail line will help promote the Ashland Business Park as a premiere industrial location, said Ashland Mayor Glen Stewart, adding that the park is centrally located between Cleveland, Akron and Columbus.
Ashland Railway interchanges with CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway and the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co.
Keywords
Browse articles on Ohio Rail Development Commission on Progressive Railroading
More articles
- Raise fares or cut service or ...? More 'new normal' considerations for transit agencies
- For the rail finance and leasing sector, a promising year ahead
- Q4: All in all, it's just another brick in the 'renaissance' wall
- Ridership: For transit agencies, the 'operate and they will come' mantra is giving way to a marketing-based approach
- Building the brand that is passenger-rail service; Surface talk about transportation bills — by Pat Foran (Context February 2012)
- Positive train control: FRA expects to ramp up PTC regulatory efforts as railroads amp up implementation work
- Maintenance of way: Vegetation management/weed control
- Rail car leasing: 'Same old, same old' as the new paradigm — by Toby Kolstad
- Capital ideas: Progressive Railroading's 2012 Finance & Leasing Guide
- Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading February 2012
- Transit agencies jointly tackle leadership succession planning
