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The Middlebury Rail and Bridge Project will replace two 1920s-era bridges with a tunnel, restoring a section of the town green lost to Middlebury when the Rutland Railroad was constructed in the 1840s.

“We are currently finishing up the second project of two early work packages,” said Tim Pockette, Vermont Agency

of Transportation (VTrans) construction engineer. “The two early work packages replaced the existing bridges with two temporary Mabey Bridges and installed the major drainage structures for the final tunnel drainage system. The main project is currently being designed, and will be started in the summer of 2019 and finish in 2021.”

The bridges sit approximately 350 ft. apart, on either side of the town green in the center of downtown Middlebury, carrying vehicular and foot traffic on Main Street (Vermont Route 30) and Merchants Row. The Main Street and Merchants Row bridges were demolished in 2017 to make see MIDDLEBURY page 12

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Lorusso Heavy Equipment Hosts Demo Day in Walpole

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n May 11, 2019, Lorusso Heavy Equipment Hosted a Demo Day near its Walpole, Mass., location. The event featured Mecalac products like the 15MC crawler excavator, the 8MCR rail road excavator and the 12MTX wheel excavator loader, as well as other Mecalac, Hyundai and Engcon products.

AJ and Paul Lorusso opened the doors to Lorusso Heavy Equipment in 2009. LHE is a full-service dealer offering sales from its fully stocked inventory, and offers services, rental and parts. Training for its customers also is available to pass on the knowledge to use their newly acquired machinery to its maximum potential.

LHE was the first dealer in the United States to carry Mecalac products from France and has since become a top North American dealer of Mecalac products. LHE began started selling Hyundai products a few years later, in 2011.

When asked about how the products work together, Paul Lorusso said, “These products complement each other very well.”

Lorusso also said the Mecalac 12MTX wheel excavator loader is diverse and ideal for urban work.

“There's nothing else like it — with the boom on the opposite side of the machine. It helps us to deal with traffic and visibility when in urban areas. A lot of people were receptive to this product because it is so different but it is also

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Mecalac’s 15MC crawler excavator has an impressive reach.

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Paul Lorusso (L), owner of Lorusso Heavy Equipment in Walpole, Mass., and Frederic Laborde, Mecalac’s business manager North America in Walpole, Mass.

rugged and stout and it is reliable.”

The 12MTX is a two-in-one wheel excavator and wheel loader.

Engcon was at the demo day with an information tent and an EC-Oil tiltrotator on display. Åke Johansson, product specialist/sales was there from Engcon North America in New Haven, Conn., to answer questions about the products. Dave Colageo of Colageo Construction in Stoughton, Mass., had the opportunity to test out the tiltrotator on the Mecalac 8MCR excavator and see the capabilities of the machine and

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Michael O’Shaughnessy of Michael O’Shaughnessy Construction Inc. in San Francisco, Calif., travelled across the country to attend the Demo Day.

attachment and how they complement each other on the demonstration field.

Lorusso Heavy Equipment holds these events one or two times a year to give its customers the chance to come out to test the technology and machinery that will make their jobs more successful and easier while on work sites. CEG see LORUSSO page 17

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Tony Schwenn (L), global account manager of Pettibone in Baraga, Mich., and Eric Christophersen of HTC Landscaping in Long Island, N.Y., checked out Mecalac’s 8MCR rail road excavator.

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Michael Gruffaz (L) of Mecalac in eastern France and Dan Dwyer of Reynolds-Warren Equipment Company in Atlanta, Ga., both attended the Demo Day.

AJ (L) and Paul Lorusso, owners of Lorusso Heavy Equipment, host a Mecalac Demo Day at their Walpole, Mass., location on May 11, 2019.

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Foley Engines Celebrates More Than a Century in Business

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Foley Engines, North America’s oldest engine distributor, is celebrating its 103rd anniversary in 2019.

The family-founded and operated company, opened in 1916 by Bill Foley, is now in its third generation of family operation, with Jay Foley, grandson of Bill, serving as the current president and CEO of the company.

Headquartered in a 20,000-sq.-ft. facility in Worcester, Mass., Foley Engines specializes in Deutz Foley Engines building, in the beginning. The company still operates out of this facilengines and engine parts, ity in Worcester.

Perkins engines and engine parts, exhaust scrubbers — both diesel and gasoline; Twin engines, meaning engines used off-road and in construction Disc, Rockford and AutoClutch, Power Takeoff clutches; equipment. We specialized even more in industrial engines but also offered new engines as well as remanufactured Engine governors; and Ford Industrial.

“It seems that every generation we change directions a lit- engines. Most recently, we’re doing a lot with exhaust scrubtle bit,” said Jay Foley, who joined his family’s company in bers and exhaust purifiers. We are still a very large presence in industrial engine market.” the 1980s.

“My grandfather started as a distributor of Goodyear tires. see FOLEY page 8 My father in the 1950s and ’60s was a rebuilder of industrial

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Jay W. Foley stands beside one of his company’s many engines in inventory.

Meeting Customer Needs Near and Far Foley Engines has been operating out of its facility, formerly a steel mill located at 200 Summer St. in Worcester, for approximately 55 years. There, the company stocks approximately 600 remanufactured engines that are ready to be shipped to locations worldwide. Foley said this inventory number is a benefit to end users because they’ll experience no downtime. The facility’s proximity to Boston also is a big Shown here is a gas/LP clip-on style scrubber for Seen here is a clip-on scrubber for diesel equipplus. ment up to 1,000 hp.

“For example, many airport up to 65-hp. forklift. tugs are powered by Deutz Foley Engines also will ship anywhere in the world, and engines,” Foley said. “If an engine goes down on an airport tug, they can really be in a jam. But we have on the shelves, UPS is conveniently located just down the road from its remanufactured Deutz engines for use in airport tugs. So, we facility.

“If you can reach your telephone, you are in our territory,” can have an engine at Logan Airport within an hour.”

Foley Engines offers same day shipping on in stock parts. Foley said.

International shipping began about 25 years ago when the This gets orders processed and to customers as quickly as Internet and search engines became more accessible and needed.

“Nobody leaves until everything is shipped,” Foley said. popular, in turn making it simple for Foley Engines to market “We aren’t going to walk out of here with orders still linger- in such places. ing.” see FOLEY page 10

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chamber the cleaner you get the air.”

Foley Engines’ new line of CleanAirExhaust365 scrubbers, which make exhaust emissions safe and legal to breathe, include the clip-on scrubber and combination muffler scrubber. The clip-on scrubber is fastened to the existing tailpipe and is removable.

Because it is attached to the existing muffler, it will protrude from the machine. It is a slightly smaller investment and has the benefit of being relocated to different machines. The combination muffler scrubber installs permanently in place of the machines existing muffler making it less likely to be damaged while in use.

Air Scrubbers and the Big Dig Foley Engines played a large part in Boston’s Big Dig Project that started construction in the early 1990s. The project objectives were to replace an elevated highway and extend the Massachusetts Turnpike I-90 with underground tunnels. This meant a lot of equipment being used underground would release toxic emissions with insufficient airflow and poor quality making it an extremely hazardous environment.

Foley Engines introduced a line of scrubbers that were used during the Big Dig on construction equipment that made the air underground safe from the Helping to Meet emissions these machines emit.

Emissions Standards “Along came the technology for the exhaust This line of products contributes to controlling the scrubber and along came the Big Dig and the timing Deutz engines fill Foley Engines’ warehouse in Worcester, Mass. emissions that come from industrial machinery in a was good.” variety of settings. States with strong environmental inum, they heat up and react with the chemicals in the emis- standards like Massachusetts, California, New York and othCleanAirExhaust365 sions to turn it into water and carbon dioxide. So, it’s using ers, as well as institutions like Vassar College, now require Foley Engines recently launched a new line of exhaust the heat from the exhaust to change the chemical makeup of these products to be used to regulate the amount of perniscrubbers for internal combustion engines. the emissions themselves.” cious emission.

CleanAirExhaust365 is an emissions control device that is “Scrubbers work well if they have a long torturous cham“Coming out of an engine background goes hand in hand either installed in place of or attached to the tailpipe of a ber,” Jay Foley added. with the scrubber business. These scrubbers are going on combustion engine. The scrubber then purifies the air before A torturous chamber is where the exhaust air is routed similar engines. Customers are more confident in us because it exits the machine. through a long series of bends and curves inside of the scrub- we know engines and have been in business for over a cen“It works very much like the catalytic converter on a car,” ber to help clean the air. tury. But the product we are most proud of is these scrubbers Jessica Manos, certified scrubber specialist at Foley Engines “It’s just not a simple straight path. Our scrubbers have a because we are cleaning up the air. And that’s a nice achievesaid. “The materials that are inside, which are mostly plat- very long and involved pathway. The longer the torturous ment,” Jay Foley said. CEG 

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The Middlebury Rail and Bridge Project will replace two 1920s-era bridges with a tunnel, restoring a section of the village green lost to Middlebury when the Rutland Railroad was constructed in the 1840s.

The use of a tunnel will allow for double-deck rail service to western Vermont, while not changing the elevation of Main Street and Merchant Row by lowering the track elevation.

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Right now, crews are finishing the installation of underground utilities, so that the aerial utilities can be Jim Gish photo Crews are finishing the installation of underground utilities, relocated underground for the next phase of construcMIDDLEBURY from page 1 so that the aerial utilities can be relocated underground for tion. Pockette said the biggest concern with overseeing construction is the impact it will have on the area. way for temporary structures. Both were declared as a the next phase of construction.

“The construction work is actually not that difficult, state of emergency, because they were falling apart.

“The state had placed three one-inch steel plates on the to western Vermont, while not changing the elevation of but when combined with the historic buildings, minimal Merchant Row bridges as portions of the bridge had fallen Main Street and Merchant Row by lowering the track eleva- construction space and minimizing the effects on the busiinto the railroad corridor,” said Pockette. “A portion of the tion. The tunnel allows for the reconnection of the village nesses and the traveling public, it becomes very complicated.

Main Street Bridge sidewalk had fallen into the railroad cor- green which was bisected by the railroad. This connects The community has been very good with supporting the Triangle Park with the rest of the village green and helps project and dealing with the inconveniences of construction ridor.”

The use of a tunnel will allow for double deck rail service mitigate the project’s impact on the historic resources of see MIDDLEBURY page 14

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ledge. This area was blasted in 8ft. levels and excavated out. The over the last two summers. There has been blasting of each layer was blasted much outreach and communication to ensure in three sections. The drill rig was that needs are being addressed.” lifted in and out of the launch shaft Work has been performed in stages and with a crane. The excavation during certain times of the year to address occurred with a long stick excavamany different factors. tor. The launch shaft utilizes rock “Stabilization of Excavation [SOE] measanchors to address question secures were installed in 2017 during the closure tions of the launch shaft wall, and of Main Street while installing the temporary rock netting was hung around the Jim Gish photo bridge,” said Pockette. “This was done so that entire launch to provide a safe The tunnel allows for the reconnection of the Main Street would not need to be closed any work area for the crews in the botvillage green, which was bisected by the raillonger in 2020 than the 10 weeks planned. road. tom of the launch shaft.

Tree clearing was carried out in the winter of Receiving pit number two was 2018-2019 to address the endangered species of bats in the and the contractor laid the slopes a four-sided pit. It utilized 45-ft.

Middlebury area. Also, bat houses were installed during this back as required by OSHA. There long, 13.5-in. diameter, groutwas a small extension of this rail period, in two locations, to provide habitat.”

Jim Gish photo filled mini-piles on two of the Underground utilities were placed in 2018, so that over- crossing trench which did require Crews are making significant progress on a head utilities can be relocated in 2019 and construction can the use of a trench box. There have multi-year construction effort that will bene- walls and 25-ft., 13.5-in. diameter, occur in 2020. Temporary access roads were built last year been three locations where ledge fit the transportation hub of west-central grout filled mini-piles on the other two walls. to provide access to building during the closure period of was encountered in the trench, Vermont.

The two 45-ft. deep walls were 2020. The early work package in 2018 and 2019 installed the requiring the use of a hoe ram to drilled and then grouted. Excavation then occurred, and a major portion of the storm drainage system, which will have remove the ledge, and this work also went very well.

“There were three locations which required deep excava- timber lagging wall system was installed as the excavation the tunnel storm drainage system connect to it. occurred. At the top of these two 45-ft. walls, soil nails were Pockette said conduit trench excavation has not been an tion [up to 40 feet] for the installation of the drainage system, installed with walers to hold the top of the timber lag wall in the launch shaft, receiving pit number two and receiving pit place. The two 25-ft. walls were then drilled and grouted. issue on the project.

“The vast majority of conduit trenches have been minor in number three. These areas require blasting and the use of Excavation continued and the timber lagging wall system depth, less than five feet. There was a trench crossing on the SOE measures.”

The launch shaft was a 40-ft. diameter hole, 40 ft. deep in railroad which was 12-feet deep. This excavation went well, see MIDDLEBURY page 16

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was installed. A waler systems was installed at about four feet down from the top of the 25-ft. mini-piles.

Receiving pit number three also was four-sided. It utilized 35-ft. long, 13.5-in. diameter, grout-filled mini-piles. The minipiles were drilled and grouted. Excavation occurred and a timber lagging wall system was installed. A waler system was installed 5 ft. from the top of the mini-piles.

According to VTrans project manager Jonathan Griffin, “Development of this project has been ongoing for at least the past five years through development and construction of the early work packages, the railroad support projects and the railroad detour. Planning efforts will continue until construction is completed in 2021.”

The main segment of construction gets under way this summer, with the construction of new water, stormwater and sewer lines for the town and the installation of mini-piles and sheeting along the rail corridor to prepare for the rebuilding of the downtown rail line.

“The contractor is required to install monitoring equipment throughout the project area,” said Griffin. “There will be sensors capable of measuring vibrations, as well as over air pressure caused by drilling and blasting. The data collected from these sensors can be used to inform the contractor of the effect their construction activities are having on the historic infrastructure in town, which will helps ensure no damage is done to adjacent properties.”

Construction has required a variety of equipment, including excavators, loaders, cranes, a tunnel boring machine and a roller. Main materials on this project include granular backfill for structures, concrete for conduit trenches and headwall, 60-in. steel casing for microtunnel, production pipe 42-ft. HDPE Permalok pipe for carrier pipe and precast concrete structures for three drainage structures.

Once finished, the project will have reconnected the village green with Triangle Park and installed ADA pedestrian accommodations to link the village green with the Marble Works property via a new park named Lazarus Park. Crews also will have installed an updated sewer and water system, and an updated storm drain system.

The improvements will contribute to aid in the revitalization of the downtown area.

In addition, the state will have cleared a major hurdle in being able to provide double deck rail service along this rail corridor to all of western Vermont.

“Middlebury will make use of a rebuilt downtown rail corridor that’s been cleared

of contaminated soils and standing water, and made considerably safer than today’s poorly aligned and deteriorated track,” said Jim Gish, community liaison of the Downtown Bridges Replacement Project.

“Other benefits include a reclaimed section of the town green and, across the street, a new downtown park, both landscaped with a combination of green space and hardscape to accommodate downtown events.

In addition, safety will be significantly improved for motorists and pedestrians.”

No matter how promising, a project in the center of downtown can cause headaches for those affected by the ongoing work. Two of the largest employers in the state — Porter Medical Center and Middlebury College — are located in Middlebury, which is where three state highways converge. And that’s not all.

“The community is concerned that the unique retail stores that make our downtown vibrant will not survive the construction, particularly during the 10-week closure of Main Street and Merchants Row in summer of 2020,” said Gish. “Several empty storefronts already line Main Street.

“Otter Creek, the longest river in Vermont, flows through downtown Middlebury alongside the project limits.

Citizens are concerned about the project’s short- and long-term impact on the river’s water quality. They’re also concerned about the impact of construction on our historic downtown buildings, all of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”

Community involvement is considered crucial during construction, along with a commitment from the key players.

“During the past three years, the Middlebury Selectboard and the Vermont Agency of Transportation have developed a strong partnership, based on clear communication and a common understanding of one another’s goals and concerns,” said Gish. “That partnership extends on the construction side to engineering lead VHB and general contractor Kubricky and on the town side to such key stakeholders as the National Bank of Middlebury and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.”

The state also has provided funding for Neighbors Together, a community action group formed to mitigate the impacts of the project on Middlebury’s quality of life, and the Better Middlebury Partnership, Middlebury’s downtown advocacy group.

These two organizations, and their extensive network of volunteers, have planned several events and innovative programs designed to promote Middlebury and drive downtown business revenue.  CEG

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Lorusso Features Mecalac Equipment at Demo Day

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A attendee test drives the Mecalac AS 900 swing loader.

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The Mecalac 9WMR on display showcased the reach capabilities of this wheel excavator.

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Samantha Marchand, Lorusso Heavy Equipment’s office manager in Walpole, Mass., was present at the Demo Day to assist and answer questions. Marchand has been Lorusso’s office manager for four years.

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