The state Board of Public Works approved Wednesday giving $22 million to Virginia Railway Express for 13 railroad coaches that are expected to ease crowding on the MARC Penn Line beginning later this fall.

The 135-passenger, double-deck rail cars are actually part of a larger order to Kawasaki Rail Co. that Maryland placed in 2000.

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