No.
The Arcade & Attica Railroad received $2.2 Million dollars in taxpayer money - one shot of $1.0 Million and another shot of $1.2 Million. This money from 2005 was to be used between the interchange and Curriers station for the following: Replacing all switches and switch timbers with 105lb or heavier rail, replace multiple culverts, hundreds of feet of ditching work, 1100 ties installed per mile and 1100 tons of stone per mile, tamping, cross-level and surfacing, and some bulldozer work. I believe the project called for a nominal raise of the roadbed, which will cause heartache with crossings. The board will fight it because it may make someones yard dirty. The superelevation needs to be taken out of the curve by the shop and though milepost four, as it is excessive.
The additional $1.1 Million dollars - which was attained by the previous management - makes the total now $3.3 Million. The $1.1 million dollars was filed for specific additional track work, including a 750' siding at milepost 3, and rehabilitation of a stub track that sits there now, so the railroad could actually (gasp) switch cars. The continued tie and surfacing project north of Curriers would have given the railroad a shot at running passenger trains to the restaurant in Java Center, something it currently cannot do because it's excepted track - and we all know what that means.
A small unloading pit for covered hoppers, and a covered loading ramp for boxes was included in the application, but the funding would've had to come from somewhere else, but the business isn't there yet either. In addition, the railroad had an agreement with a western company to take railroad flatcars inbound for dismantling and transload to truck, but that is gone now too. I can only imagine that the transloading area money would now be used to support the other parts of the right of way.
In spring 2007, a supplemental request was made for $4.9 Million for rail replacement, but I have not heard if they are going to fall into that as well. The A&A is mostly 70AS, not 90, but as any engineer will tell you, the line will function fine under it's current traffic load if ties and stone are stuck underneath it, and they get it out of the mud. Plenty of lines still running 120 ton locomotives on 80lb rail. Gets frustrating when cars are on the ground and Winter's cranes drive blocking three feet into the roadbed when picking up a car.
Given that fuel has doubled since the grant was let, I bet they get even less work done with this grant than they thought.
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