RAILROAD
CROSSING CLEANUP STARTED
The Times
Reporter
July 22, 2006
SHERRODSVILLE – Cleanup
work on the area surrounding the railroad crossing at Rt.
39 and Crane Rd., Sherrodsville, has begun.
Ed Hale, a Carroll County sheriff deputy, stated
in a news release Thursday that he found two employees of the
Wheeling Lake Erie Railway attempting to clean brush and trees
that are obstructing the crossing when he and several others
went to the scene Wednesday.
Hale said he was accompanied
to the crossing by Vicky Moore of the Angels on Track Foundation
and a crew from Cleveland’s 19 Action News.
While there, Hale said
he spoke by telephone with a Wheeling Lake Erie Railway supervisor
and was told the company would be in contact with a tree
trimming service soon to remove a large circumference tree
that his employees aren’t
able to cut.
Hale noted that the crossing
was reported last week by a concerned citizen as “an accident waiting to
happen,” and that his subsequent investigation revealed
the crossing’s right of way was grown up with weeds,
trees and bushes.
Hale said that while he recognizes that the
railway company is making an attempt to act on a complaint,
he told the supervisor the obstructions should have been taken
care of and should continue to be.
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