After several months of back and forth between a company that recycles retired train cabins and the town of Hildebran over zoning and safety requirements, the two have come to an agreement.

The town said in a release on Aug. 8 that it will issue a permit to the company after receiving and reviewing a completed site plan from Bradshaw’s Train Services and Innovative Bridge Company for 500 E. U.S. 70, Hildebran.

The company bought surplus train cabins from Norfolk Southern Railway. It removes the train cabins that railway workers lived in from the metal rail beds. The company has used the rail beds to build temporary bridges in areas affected during Hurricane Helene and puts the train cabins up for sale for $5,500 apiece. Burke County and the state’s Department of Insurance have said the t

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