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Union Pacific Railroad is in the midst of another track improvement project in Arkansas. On Feb. 1, the Class I began upgrading a mainline between Little Rock and Alexander.

Crews are surfacing and lining 13.5 track miles, installing 19,700 ties, spreading 6,675 tons of ballast and replacing surfaces at nine grade crossings.

Scheduled to be completed in mid-March, the $1.8 million project is part of UP's 2005 maintenance-of-way (MOW) capital plan, which calls for spending more than $1 billion to maintain and improve track within the road's 33,000-mile system.

Earlier this month, the railroad completed a $2 million MOW project on a mainline and yard tracks between Hope and Clear Lake Junction, Ark. UP also is completing an $8.4 million project on a mainline between Rush Springs and Waurika, Okla.