Union Railroad buys 13 acres from RIDC

By Mon Valley Independent

By Michael Richter

mrichter@yourmvi.com

Union Railroad Company, LLC purchased a 13-acre parcel in Duquesne for $400,000 from the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania to build a loading facility for rail cars on the land. Union Railroad will develop the land, which resides in RIDC’s City Center of Duquesne, as rail-to-truck and truck-to-rail transloading facility.

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