(Source: Associated Press, July 5, 2012)
NEW YORK — A railroad company is renovating rusty, overgrown tracks to get at millions of tons of waste rock at an abandoned iron and titanium mine near the source of New York’s Hudson River and the highest peaks of the Adirondacks, part of a widespread resurgence of short line and regional freight lines. The planned reopening of a 30-mile rail link is being driven by high oil prices that make rail shipping more economical than trucking.
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