SmartWay Signs On More ARH Short Lines
SmartWay Signs On More ARH Short Lines Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
All six Anacostia Rail Holdings Company subsidiaries, including Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (pictured), are now SmartWay partners.
The remaining five of Anacostia Rail Holdings Company’s (ARH) six short line subsidiaries are now certified partners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay® Transport Partnership program.
EPA launched SmartWay in 2004 to help “companies and organizations achieve their freight supply chain sustainability goals by providing credible tools, data and standards at no cost for measuring, benchmarking and improving environmental performance.”
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A 21-year-old man whose car was hit by a train Monday night in Jackson County, Indiana, has died, according to state police.
Dawson A. Vest, of Austin, Indiana, was driving his Nissan on County Road 775 South, just west of U.S. 31, about 6:30 p.m. Monday when, for an unknown reason, he car entered a railroad crossing into the path of a northbound CSX train, per an Indiana State Police news release.
The train crashed into the driver s side of the car, causing the Nissan to overturn and ejecting Vest from the vehicle, state police said.
Vest was airlifted to a Louisville hospital and was pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, according to Indiana State Police.