Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Amtrak, states, regional commuter railroads and the DOT laid out an ambitious 15-year plan to ready the Northeast Corridor for future growth.

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Plans Railroad DOT 147

BD+C

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Construction of Chicago’s new Metra Union Pacific/West commuter railroad station in Lombard, Ill., marks a major improvement for riders as well as the residents of the Village of Lombard. Prior to building the sparkling new station, riders simply boarded from two uncovered platforms.

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Railroad Union Construction 61

Construction Dive

JANUARY 23, 2024

Gray III 30th Street Station is one of the busiest intercity passenger railroad facilities in the U.S. The aging William H.

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Philadelphia Railroad 144

Construction Equipment

JULY 18, 2018

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed a rule affecting construction equipment working on or along railroad tracks.

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Railroad OSHA Construction Safety 53

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Major bridge and tunnel projects will make the nation’s busiest passenger railroad “safer, faster, and more reliable,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.

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Railroad Transportation 134

ENR Construction

AUGUST 13, 2024

Contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI and heavy-lift specialist Mammoet rolled the bridge on two 128-wheeled self-propelled modular transporters.

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Railroad Transportation Contractors 73

Construction Dive

APRIL 8, 2024

The railroad company will begin major work, including utility relocations and bridge construction, later this year.

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Railroad Construction 118

Construction Equipment

JUNE 14, 2016

A new company will take over repairs and eventual operations of the Desert Line railroad, clearing the way for repairs to begin this summer and for trains to move goods made in Mexico into the United States by 2018.

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Railroad San Diego United States Leases 48

ENR Construction

JANUARY 9, 2019

Freight and commuter railroads across the U.S. achieved enough milestones by a Dec. 31, 2018, federal deadline for installing automatic train control systems to avoid potential federal penalties.

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Railroad 42

Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The railroad selected a Clark Construction/Stacy and Witbeck JV for the Southern Approach work on the Frederick Douglass Tunnel in Baltimore.

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Baltimore Railroad Contractors Construction 131

BD+C

AUGUST 15, 2017

The $21 million, 15,000-sf Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Md., uses engaging displays and exhibits to tell the story of Harriet Tubman’s life. The museum is conceived as a series of abstracted forms made up of two main structures, one administrative and one exhibit.

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Railroad Travel Maine Site 64

Business Facilities

JULY 21, 2016

Read Renamed Decatur Central Railroad Gets New Operators, Rehab on Business Facilities - Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. OmniTRAX affiliate partners with Topflight Grain Cooperative to operate, drive business to and rehabilitate the Cisco to Decatur line.

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Railroad Site Illinois Transportation 40

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Grants from the Federal Railroad Administration will fund high-speed passenger rail projects from North Carolina and Virginia to California and Nevada.

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North Carolina Railroad Nevada Virginia 80

The Constructor

JUNE 11, 2020

Pipe culvert is a tunnel structure constructed using pipes under roadways or railroads to provide cross drainage or to take electrical or other.

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Railroad Electrical Construction 131

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 28, 2023

s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 high speed railroad is shifting into the fit-out stage with more than $6 billion of track and system work being readied for procurement. With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s

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Railroad Procurement 83

ENR Construction

AUGUST 29, 2017

A section of international Rhine Valley Railroad started sinking in mid-August as the 10.9-m-dia, m-dia, 93-m-long bentonite machine worked a few meters below in ground that had been supposedly stabilized by freezing.

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Railroad Contractors 44

Construction Dive

JULY 13, 2023

The civil construction giants announced they have completed modernization work on the Long Island Railroad's 33rd Street train hall.

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Railroad Construction 76

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 29, 2024

South Carolina’s section of Interstate 85, called the Boom Belt due to burgeoning economic activity throughout the corridor, is now even better equipped to handle its load of travelers and shipping thanks to this design-build project to add two lanes across eight miles of I-85 and reconstruct four interchanges and one railroad bridge.

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Railroad Design Travel Equipment 36

Business Facilities

DECEMBER 17, 2020

CN is collaborating with Alabama Export Railroad and Ray-Mont Logistics to launch the first phase of a new, high-tech logistics park in Mobile, AL. Read: Transportation Partners Team For New Logistics Park In Alabama at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Alabama Transportation Railroad Mobility 102

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Grants from the Federal Railroad Administration will fund high-speed passenger rail projects from North Carolina and Virginia to California and Nevada.

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North Carolina Railroad Nevada Virginia 70

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Lines meet Dec. 31 deadline to install key safety technology, spending about $11.5 billion, with $3.4 billion in federal grant and loan funds provided.

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Railroad Safety 74

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Project involves repairs to stations on the MTA's No. 7 Line between Queens and Manhattan's west side.

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Railroad Contract 78

ENR Construction

MAY 17, 2023

Federal Railroad Administration issues a supplemental draft environmental review for planned modernization of the 115-year-old facility.

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Railroad Plans Union Drafting 81

ENR Construction

MARCH 30, 2021

State will embark on 10-year, $3.7B expansion.

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Railroad Virginia Infrastructure Plans 85

ENR Construction

MAY 18, 2018

Freight railroads have positive train control systems on 60% of their route miles, passenger lines lag, at 25%.

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Railroad 31

ENR Construction

MAY 18, 2022

The planned Uinta Basin Railway would connect a mineral-rich region to the national rail network.

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Railroad Utah Plans 74

Viewpoint Construction Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2017

From kid songs like “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” all the way to anthems like “We Built This City,” construction-themed songs have made their way into our lives. We work in the industry so it’s no surprise to us that construction has been referenced in music for decades.

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Railroad Construction US Industrial 189

ENR Construction

MAY 13, 2015

million-sq-ft first phase of air-rights development is at the mercy of the track outages offered by the Long Island Railroad.

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Railroad 28

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Undulating timber roofs now shelter passengers using a new railroad station at the Norwegian city of Ski. It lies close to the south portal of the multibillion-dollar underground high-speed Follo Line railroad to the capital city, Oslo.

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Railroad 36

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Lines comply with Dec. 31 deadline for key safety technology, spending about $11.5 billion, with $3.4 billion in federal grant and loan funds provided.

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Railroad US Safety 73

ENR Construction

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas Central Railroad wants to build a $30-billion high-speed passenger rail between Dallas and Houston.

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Texas Railroad Houston Dallas 95

ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Despite a historic pace for the installation of new railroad signaling and monitoring technologies, U.S. freight and commuter railroads will not meet the Federal Railroad Administration-imposed deadline to equip infrastructure assets with positive train controls (PTCs) by Dec.

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Railroad Infrastructure Equipment 28

ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Norfolk Southern Railroad has provided Ohio environmental officials with a proposed action plan to remediate environmental damage stemming from a Feb. 3 freight train derailment and ensuing fire.

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Ohio Railroad Plans 69

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Federal funds are aimed at improving safety at multiple Metrolink high-volume train crossings.

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Railroad California Safety 69

Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

miles of rail to connect to nearby railroad and industrial park, promoting job creation in Tennessee’s most economically disadvantaged county. Federal BUILD grant will help construct 5.5 Read: $7M Grant To Help Tennessee Build Port Of Cates Landing Rail Extension at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Tennessee Railroad Industrial Construction 111

Construction Dive

JANUARY 6, 2020

The California High-Speed Rail issued the request for proposals to three design-build groups, even though the Federal Railroad Administration said it would not approve the RFP.

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California Railroad Design 107

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Texas Central Partners is pressing on with the Dallas-to-Houston line and will appeal a court ruling that denied it railroad designation and land rights.

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Texas Railroad Houston Dallas 134