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Metra Union Pacific/West Commuter Railroad Station

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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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PNT and MiFi Allow Drones to Inspect Railroads

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Perspective Navigation Technology (PNT) has answered a challenge that the Union Pacific Railroad and other industries that work in and around heavy metal structures encounter.

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Feds Release $8.8B Expansion Plan for DC’s Union Station Rail Hub

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

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Best Project Highway/Bridge: SR-172 RR Crossing

ENR Construction

172 (5600 West) daily in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, but an at-grade crossing with the Union Pacific Railroad was creating up to eight hour delays on this two-lane corridor. More than 15,000 vehicles travel S.R.

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Best Small Project & Project of the Year Nominee & Safety Award of Merit: Gideon Street Overcrossing Project

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now links the old and the new with a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over five separate railway tracks, crossing the TriMet light rail and Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and restoring an important connection in the Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood. . The Gideon Street Overcrossing in Portland, Ore.,

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Arup chosen to lead renovations of Chicago’s Union Station

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The engineering and architectural firm Arup has been selected to lead the design work for renovations to Chicago’s historic Union Station. The City of Chicago, railroad service company Amtrak, and a collection of Chicago transportation entities, including the commuter railroad service Metra, worked together on the decision.

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Best Project Airport/Transit: Vineyard Commuter Rail

ENR Construction

The project added a new station to the existing FrontRunner commuter rail system, which shares a corridor with the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) freight main line.