PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY. AN INVESTIGATORY REPORT

The tracks of the C&O Railroad pass through the heart of downtown Pikeville, Kentucky. An investigation was made in two previous studies of the feasibility of moving these tracks. The first, in 1963, found the moving of the tracks to be desirable and feasible. The second study, in 1968, again documented the project as desirable and feasible. The project discussed in this report was contracted in March, 1969 and called for data acquisition and analysis, along with the development of recommendations. It also called for detailed cost estimates, more detailed and exact topographic mapping if necessary, meetings of the affected agencies, and the providing of other services as requested by the Coordinator. This report is basically descriptive of the activities and results of efforts to get the project into execution. It reports the background, description of the project, the preliminary cost estimates in some detail, the specifics of interagency cooperation necessary to fund the project and the results of the geological investigations.

• Corporate Authors:

  Preston (ES) Associates, Incorporated

  939 Goodale Boulevard
  Columbus, OH  United States  43212

  Appalachian Regional Commission

  1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20235
• Publication Date: 1970-3

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost estimating; Estimates; Feasibility analysis; Geological surveying; Mapping; Railroad tracks; Relocation (Facilities)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Relocation
• Geographic Terms: Pikeville (Kentucky)
• Old TRIS Terms: Geologic investigations
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00488708
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: ARC 68-17
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1989 12:00AM