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What's New?
STAR Solutions Officially Folds
01/17/2008
"Great news!" is how Rees Shearer, Chair of RAIL Solution, responded to the announcement Wednesday by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) that Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) had "declined further participation" by STAR Solutions in I-81 construction work, including planned truck climbing lanes in Rockbridge and Montgomery Counties.

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I-81 Freight Rail Study and Norfolk Southern Cresent Corridor compared and contrasted in new paper for CTB
11/18/07
Because both are rail intermodal efforts affecting the I-81 Corridor, there has been public confusion over what these two projects are and how they differ. In a new paper prepared for the Commonwealth Transportation Board meeting in Roanoke on November 7, RAIL Solution details the differences and highlights some curious ways the new NS direction departs from the vision of its own CEO, Wick Moorman.

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RAIL Solution Presents Vision for Steel Interstate at Virginia Energy and Sustainability Conference
10/17/2007
RAIL Solution was invited to make a presentation at COVES in Lexington on how moving freight by rail can save energy. Executive Director David Foster used the opportunity to brief attendees in the transportation break-out on the merits of the Steel Interstate concept.

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New All-Purpose RAIL Solution Brochure Issued
09/04/2007
At conferences, workshops, fairs, and other public events we often have an opportunity to spread the word on who RAIL Solution is, what we do, and welcome new participants. A new brochure has been printed for this purpose, and is available as a pdf

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