Pittsburgh Double-Stack

Norfolk Southern releases designs for North Side projects to create room for double-stacked freight cars




Norfolk Southern Rail Co. has completed the design of four projects in Pittsburgh needed to run trains with double-stacked freight cars through the city and expects to begin work on two of them this year.

But that doesn’t mean the railroad will begin running double-stacked trains any time soon because many more changes will have to occur to create enough room for the higher vehicles.

The city issued a news release Friday announcing designs have been finished for three projects to accommodate the higher trains: raising the height of the West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue bridges on the city’s North Side and changing the design of the Amtrak station on Liberty Avenue, Downtown. The railroad also has finished the design for a new pedestrian bridge through Allegheny Commons on the North Side, a key project for residents concerned about allowing the heavier, noisier and potentially more dangerous trains to run through the city.
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