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Union Pacific Railroad plans to spend about $29 million to upgrade a line between St. Louis and Morrison, Mo. The project calls for installing more than 52 miles of new rail, upgrading more than one mile of rail in curves, replacing surfaces at 54 grade crossings and replacing five switches.

UP also plans to spend about $4 million to enhance a more than 32-mile line between Medicine Bow and Walcott, Wyo. Crews will remove and install more than 20,000 ties, renew surfaces at five crossings, replace nearly two miles of rail in various curves and spread 43,700 tons of ballast.

The Missouri and Wyoming projects are part of UP’s $3.2 billion capital spending budget for 2011.

To learn more about UP's planned trackwork this year, as well as work planned by 87 other railroads, purchase Progressing Railroading's Maintenance of Way Spending Report 2011. The pdf-formatted report, which costs $249, can be ordered and downloaded by logging onto http://www.tradepressmedia.com/mow.