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State Rep. Ed Neilson @repneilson.com
Jul 12, 01:21 PM
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"We're with Norfolk Southern today, and today I'm sitting right here on what they call the Marco Polo car. This Marco Polo car was made famous by Frank and Eleanor Roosevelt, and in this chair here is right where Winston Churchill sat, when those two had a meeting about getting involved and ending the invasion. This is the big boy. Norfolk Southern had to do so much renovation to the rail just to get this to the East Coast again, where it was born, where it was made, where it was first crafted. And the stuff that happened here is amazing. As we walked through with the main engineer, he explained every little bolt, every little technology, how to be upgraded just so they can be safe on our tracks, because you just can't run this anywhere. They had to make sure the bridges were high enough, the tracks were wide enough, and he talked about how they spent millions of dollars just to be able to bring this back to the East Coast. Where they had to chisel away some of the sides because it was, couldn't make the turn of some of the mountains it had to drive through just to get here and go across our state, Pennsylvania. So rail is real important. We have 65 different rails that operate here in Pennsylvania with over 6,000 miles of rail. Now it's real important because we have to move freight and just figure that it's easy because one ton of freight, one ton of freight moving 500 miles takes one gallon of diesel fuel. Can you imagine all the roads and all the wear and tear that would happen? So when we talk transportation in Pennsylvania, it's not just about highways, roads and bridges. It's about ports, airports and rails right here. So when we go to fund transportation, please think about all the modes of transportation in Pennsylvania, not just roads and bridges, which we're used to going over, but these rails as well."

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