Revenue service has resumed on the Wheeling & Lake Erie’s Carrollton branch following completion of rehabilitation projects funded in part by the Ohio Rail Development Commission.
An online report indicated that the first revenue move in more than three years on the branch occurred on Sept. 11 when a plastics company in Carrollton received nine loads of plastic pellets.
Another shipper received a load of stone on Sept. 20 that was delivered to a stone unloading facility recently constructed next to a siding in Carrollton.
ORDC had given the W&LE a grant of $235,225 to be used to rebuild a bridge at Oneida over Sandy Creek.
The agency also awarded a $100,000 grant to trucking company Griffeth & Son to build a transloading facility for stone that is being transported from a quarry near Carey, Ohio.
The transloading facility also received funding of $200,000 from JobsOhio and $50,000 from the Carroll County Community Improvement Corporation.
In recent years the Carrollton branch had been used for storing idled freight cars.