Meeting to take up AMTRAK “issues”

A meeting this week will take up AMTRAK concerns with the design of a temporary train depot at Clemson, and an official of the general contractor is hopeful the meeting will resolve issues. Marty McKee, vice president of Thrift Development, is hopeful that a good meeting Thursday will mean progress in what already has been a long-delayed project to replace the railroad bridge over South Carolina 133 near the busy
U-S 123 intersection. The temporary facility is to be built across the tracks from the permanent depot. In the meantime, Norfolk Southern has crews currently assigned to the job of creating the detour rail that will allow the passenger and freight trains to pass by while the bridges is dismantled and replaced. According to McKee, his company is hopeful that the temporary detour bridge will be in place before the start of school and the football season. If it’s not, however, the demolition of the old bridge is likely to be worked, as McKee put it, “We’ll work our schedule around.”