Heartland Corridor

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I wouldn't call it the "center"of the yard. You probably refer to the Grant 
Street Bridge, not too far east of the old passenger station. The Belcher Bridge 
is a mile or so east of there and served a sawmill and a number of houses around 
it (employees?). I used to cross it every weekday delivering the afternoon 
newspaper. The "new" scalehouse (c. 1954) was just west of the Belcher 
Bridge.      Jim Nichols




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Subject: Re: Heartland Corridor


Is that the old steel bridge over the "center" of the yard? When I was there 
over Memorial Day, I had planned to get some photos but it was pouring down 
rain.
 
 
 
Gene Bowker
The Railroad Examiner

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>The item below is from the online edition of Railway Track and Structures 

>magazine.  I saw the cranes in place at the bridge when I was in Bluefield last 

>Saturday.

>

>Gordon Hamilton

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>Belcher Bridge is coming down for NS Corridor        

>Tuesday, July 06, 2010  

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>Norfolk Southern contract crews have set up warning signs, and one of Bluefield, 

>W. Va.'s bridges that traverses the NS main line in the city's East End will be 

>coming down within the next two weeks

, 
the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports. 

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>Robin Chapman, NS spokesman said, "the span will come down the week of July 19," 

>although crews are already working to remove the bridge decking material and 

>preparing the structure for its removal.


 

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>"There will be a 10-hour outage as crews remove the span," Chapman said. "It's 

>not going to affect our traffic."


 

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>The Belcher Bridge, also known as the Hardy Street Bridge, represents the final 

>piece in NS's multi-million dollar Heartland Corridor project aimed at removing 

>the physical obstacles for double-stacked freight loads on the route from 

>Chicago, Ill., to Hampton Roads, Va.


 

>

>"We have completed the work we needed to do on Wayne Street to improve access 

>for residents living in the East End," Bluefield Mayor Linda Whalen said. "We 

>researched the idea before we decided the right way to go on the project. The 

>traffic count on that bridge was minimal, and the railroad is giving us 

>compensation for the bridge that we can apply to meet the local match to receive 

>federal stimulus funds so we can repair the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge." 

>

>


Whalen said that the city was fortunate to find a way to get the MLK Jr., 

>Bridge repaired with no out-of-pocket expense for the city.


 

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>"It's really to Andy Merriman's credit," Whalen said. "He was able to work all 

>of this out and make this happen." 

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The Belcher Bridge had been a main access point to the old J.B. Belcher 

>Lumber sawmill that had been located in the East End of Bluefield.  

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