How More Rail Could Take Trucks Off the Road
In a bustling corner of West Virginia, a 110-year-old railroad regularly delivers limestone from a quarry to a factory where Clorox uses it to make kitty litter.
The railroad, Winchester & Western, is small, but it reveals the economic and environmental benefits of moving freight by rail.
One delivery by the kitty litter express, a service that started three years ago, replaces 48 truck journeys, a relief to the busy roads around Martinsburg, where the factory is. The train emits far lower amounts of greenhouse gases than trucks...
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