"The facility will load garbage containers hauled by trucks onto its trains and transport them to a landfill site it owns in Ohio"

Garbage plan causes stink in Middletown

By Dianna Cahn
Times Herald-Record

Middletown, NY - The company that by the end of next week expects to own all shares of the Middletown & New Jersey Railroad says it intends to build a garbage transfer station in the heart of the city.

Chartwell International believes it doesn't need city or state approvals or permits to do it, because rail lines fall under the sole jurisdiction of the federal Surface Transportation Board and are exempt from local or state regulations. . . Read more