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lion grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to improve a portion of a 25- mile track from Creekside to Cloe, as well as install about eight miles of new track to support delivery of coal to the Homer City power plant. Also operating in Indiana County is the R. J. Corman Railroad Group, based out of Nicholasville, Ky., which has a line between Cherry Tree and Clymer, transporting coal extracted from Rosebud Mining’s Amfire complex near Clymer. Jim Barker, vice president of Kittanning- based Rosebud, said the Cly- mer facility produces 700,000 tons of coal per year. Rosebud also utilizes Nor- folk Southern at its Crooked Creek preparation plant, which is expected to be com- pleted next month just across the Armstrong Coun- ty line from Shelocta. “It produced a half-million tons in the past year,” Barker
said. “The railroad-loading portion was completed first; now the cleaning plant.” He said most of the coal from Crooked Creek goes to Canada.
“As things stand now,”Wal- foort said, regarding the use of rails for shipping coal, “we don’t see anything changing dramatically in the near fu- ture.”
District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. In Indiana County, a CSX line links with Norfolk Southern in Creekside and the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad in Punxsutawney. Sand and aggregate mate- rial also are carried by freight trains in Indiana County, Walfoort said. “For many years the rails through Indiana County were dormant,” before local lines were retrofitted during the administration of Gov. Ed Rendell, said Byron Stauf- fer Jr., executive director of the county CEO. “For many years coal for Homer City stopped at Route 22. Then 10 to 15 years ago the rail from the north through Indiana was reactivated, andwe have that service now.” On Nov. 1, 2006, The Indi- ana Gazette reported, a grant approved by Gov. Rendell would enable the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad to reha- bilitate 25 miles of track between Creekside and Punxsutawney. It was part of an effort to improve coal traffic from various points through Punxsutawney to the power plant in Homer City, one of four electric gen- erating stations in and around Indiana County. It was a $2 million slice of a $20 million investment
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made through PennDOT’s Bureau of Rail Freight, Ports and Waterways to help 11 railroads and 10 businesses improve rail-freight projects. The Buffalo & Pittsburgh is one of 119 freight railroads owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc., which has six regions in North America and additional regions in Europe and Australia.
The B&P includes two shortline railroads in Indi- ana County, one that oper- ates between Homer City and Cloe, Jefferson County, while the other cuts across the northwestern corner of Indiana County and con- nects Eidenau, Butler Coun- ty, and Punxsutawney. In recent years the B&P also has utilized a $3.75 mil-
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