January 24, 2009: The Free Lance-Star "At VRE's new maintenance facility, trains never sleep"
Submitted by VHSR on January 24, 2009 - 3:00am.
Rail News
When passengers step off a train, odds are they don't think about it again until the next boarding.
But Virginia Railway Express trains are busy during the hours passengers go home, eat dinner and sleep.
Locomotives and passenger cars spend the night at the Crossroads Yard in Spotsylvania County, near the intersection of U.S. 17 and Route 2. There, workers spend an overnight shift cleaning trains, making repairs, testing the brakes and preparing to make another run.