Associated Press - Mon July 15, 2019
Judge Clears Path for $1B Railroad Bridge Plan
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A federal judge has cleared the way for state and federal transportation officials to move forward with a $1.1 billion project to replace a 122-year-old movable railroad bridge in Norwalk....
MassDOT - Thu June 20, 2019
First South Coast Rail Early Action Construction Projects Begin in Mass.
South Coast Rail Early Action construction projects are under way to prepare for Phase 1 main line rail construction. The first visible active construction project is drainage culvert replacement along the right-of-way....
Brady McCombs – Associated Press - Tue June 04, 2019
Utah Celebrates Transcontinental Railroad Anniversary
PROMONTORY, Utah (AP) Music, bells and cannon fire rang out May 10 at a remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago, uniting a nation long separated by vast expanses of desert, mountains and forests and fresh off the Civil War....
Seven County Infrastructure Coalition - Tue June 04, 2019
Drexel Hamilton to Finance, Build Uinta Basin Railway
The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition board voted to select Drexel Hamilton Infrastructure Partners LP for a public-private partnership to finance and build the proposed Uinta Basin Railway. This Uinta Basin Railway is a new rail line proposed by the Coalition that will connect the Uinta Basin's various industries to the national rail network....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 23, 2019
Work Speeds Ahead on Replacing Century-Old Bridges With Tunnel
Although much work remains, crews are making significant progress on a multi-year construction effort that will benefit the transportation hub of west-central Vermont. 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....
Associated Press - Wed May 22, 2019
Feds: Honolulu Must Add $25M More Cash to Rail
HONOLULU (AP) Honolulu must contribute more money to help construct the city's rail line before getting any of the $744 million in federal funding that has been withheld from the project. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that a Federal Transit Administration spokeswoman said May 7 the agency is insisting the city provide more money....
AASHTO Journal - Tue May 14, 2019
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the First Transcontinental Railroad
The competition of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States – originally called the Pacific Railroad – officially occurred on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit in what was then the Territory of Utah when the tracks of the eastbound Central Pacific Railroad joined those of the westward Union Pacific Railroad....
Associated Press - Thu May 09, 2019
Lewiston-Portland Passenger Rail Service Could Cost $300M
A consulting engineer said a proposed commuter rail service connecting Lewiston and Auburn to Portland could cost up to $300 million. Natasha Velickovic of the engineering firm VHB said trains would cost between $75 million and $95 million, and annual operating and maintenance costs would fall between $15 million and $20 million....
MassDOT - Thu May 09, 2019
South Coast Rail Program Reaches Phase 1 Milestones
MassDOT and the MBTA are announcing that the South Coast Rail Program has reached two critical Phase 1 milestones: a finance plan is complete and will be fully funded in the Commonwealth's Capital Investment Plan and the U.S....
Kathleen Ronayne – Associated Press - Wed May 08, 2019
New California Rail Plan Pegs Central Valley Line at $18.3B
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's reworked plan for a high-speed train estimates an $18.3 billion price tag to complete 171 mi. (275 kM) of track in the Central Valley by 2028, nearly a decade later than the initial estimate for a much longer Los Angeles-to-San Francisco line....
