A westbound grain train passes through downtown Kent on Track No. 2 on the CSX New Castle Subdivision. Track No. 1 (at left) has been reinstalled after workers finished undercutting the roadbed to allow for greater clearance beneath the Main Street bridge.
Work could be wrapping up by the end of this week in undercutting the roadbed of the CSX New Castle Subvision in Kent. Since April, workers have been creating greater clearances beneath the Main Street and Wheeling & Lake Erie overpasses.
This past Sunday, crews were working overtime to get Track No. 1 back into service. The track has been put back into place and welders were connecting the panel sections of track.
As can be seen from this series of photographs, workers will need to place ballast on the track.
The work is part of a project to increase clearances on the former Baltimore & Ohio route in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Double stack container trains will be able to begin using the route once the work is completed.
Photographs by Craig Sanders
A welding crew works to connnect the panel track sections in downtown Kent. The location is just below the former Erie Railroad passenger station along the Cuyahoga River.
An eastbound auto rack train passes the work site in Kent on Sunday evening.
A back hoe straightens the ties on Track No. 1.
Akron Railroad Club member Richard Antibus photographs westbound intermodal train Q135 as it passes through Kent.
The rear of a slab train passes the work site.
Tags: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, CSX, CSX in Kent Ohio, CSX National Gateway network, CSX New Castle Subdivision, CSX. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, track work
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