The Westmoreland County coroner said a 29-year-old man was lying on the train tracks in East Huntingdon Township late Tuesday when he was hit and killed by a train.
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AVR/Carload Express Opens New Transload Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
Carload Express, Inc. wholly owned subsidiary Allegheny Valley Railroad Company (AVR) has opened a new Pittsburgh, Pa., transload facility.
AVR’s Glenwood Transload Terminal features a 40-ton-capacity Mi-Jack™ TraveLift® traveling gantry crane that can load and unload multiple railcar spots directly to truck or to ground storage. It can service a variety of railcar types such as gondolas, regular and bulkhead flatcars, and centerbeams. The facility handles steel products such as plate, bar, rod, structural, pipe and coils; and offers railcar-to-truck transloading of non-ferrous metals, forest products, dimensional loads, ABC Containers, and other building and construction materials and bulk commodities.