In December, it announced a six-year, one-million-tie contract from the Union Pacific Railroad valued at more than $55 million. About 87 percent of the content of its ties are recycled plastics ...
Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com There’s a snag: The railroad is in disrepair. Thousands of ties have failed. Nearly 10 years ago, inspectors X-rayed all 43,437 ties. At the time ...
Union Pacific will conduct the first phase of a railroad tie replacement project in Harris and Montgomery counties this week and next. The project could result in traffic delays and road ...
“Utility poles and railroad ties have historically been treated with one of three main types of heavy-duty wood preservatives: chromated arsenical, creosote and pentachlorophenol,” the DEP wrot ...
It then did something that I have never seen before: it trotted along the tracks using the concrete railroad ties like stepping stones. Railroad ties are used for supporting steel rails, and they ...
The emerging reset in bilateral relations, which have gained momentum since Maldivian President Mohammed Muizzu held talks with PM Narendra here last Oct after a period of decidedly icy ties ...