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New York City trash makes pitstop in Delaware
New York City trash makes pitstop in DelawareNot all of it. A lot of it keeps on going south. The trash train is a frequent sighting on its way through Alexandria on the CSX mainline.
Jeff Montgomery, The News Journal 8:39 a.m. EDT August 3, 2015
They’re boxy Big Apple castoffs – and just passing through.
Sixty or more times a day, heavy black trucks carry 20-ton enclosed containers out of the CSX rail yard off Centerville Road near Boxwood Road and turn south toward Interstate 95.
The trucks are part of a little-noticed floating and rolling virtual pipeline connecting New York City wastebaskets to a Chester, Pennsylvania, trash-to-electricity generator. Delaware became part of the connection earlier this year, when New York ramped up new trash disposal options that will send an estimated 400,000 tons of city trash a year to the Covanta Delaware Valley incinerator.
The new setup – part of a 20- to 30-year deal worth a potential $2.8 billion to the company – turned from highway, truck-only shipments to rail-delivered containers for most of the trip from Staten Island, New York. ... And its path cuts right through Delaware.
They’re boxy Big Apple castoffs – and just passing through.
Sixty or more times a day, heavy black trucks carry 20-ton enclosed containers out of the CSX rail yard off Centerville Road near Boxwood Road and turn south toward Interstate 95.
The trucks are part of a little-noticed floating and rolling virtual pipeline connecting New York City wastebaskets to a Chester, Pennsylvania, trash-to-electricity generator. Delaware became part of the connection earlier this year, when New York ramped up new trash disposal options that will send an estimated 400,000 tons of city trash a year to the Covanta Delaware Valley incinerator.
The new setup – part of a 20- to 30-year deal worth a potential $2.8 billion to the company – turned from highway, truck-only shipments to rail-delivered containers for most of the trip from Staten Island, New York. ... And its path cuts right through Delaware.
These are northbound empty containers. The loaded containers are on southbound trains.
The commuters waiting for the VRE are lucky that they way is clear for the trash train. Sometimes it stops in the Alexandria station to wait for the tracks to clear ahead. On a hot day, you'll know what has been in those containers.
