Obsolete railcars are getting a reprieve from the scrapper’s torch to serve as vital road links in an area of North Carolina ravaged by Hurricane Helene.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation and Innovative Bridge Co. are installing retired railroad flatcars as a quick fix to temporarily replace road bridges damaged or destroyed by the storm this past September.
Petal, Mississippi-based IBC has so far installed more than 40 railcar bridges in seven counties.
The company typically...