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Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Feb. 6 awarded more than $900,000 in Rail Freight Assistance Program (RFAP) funds to 10 railroad projects aimed at preserving freight service and creating more than 350 new jobs.

"Keeping short-line and regional railroads in good operating condition means we're keeping the freight moving, and supporting employers, jobs and families," said Transportation Secretary Bradley Mallory in a prepared statement, referring to some of the state's 70 operating railroads.

PennDOT awarded RFAP funds for the following rail-related projects:

• Gettysburg and Northern Railroad Co., $38,895, to construction an additional yard track;

• Pittsburgh Intermodal Terminals Inc., $100,000, to replace cross and switch ties, and rebuild track;

• Carbon County Railroad Commission, $79,275, to raise, line and surface track;

• Bisconti Distribution Center, $99,200, to rehabilitate a truck transloading area, level a railroad spur and pave an access road to its distribution warehouse;

• Mount Union Connecting Railroad Co., $158,844, to rehabilitate track to service a new plastic-bag manufacturing plant;

• Fisher Mining Co., $84,399, to renew track to support unit coal trains;

• Monroe County Railroad Authority, $151,110, to rehabilitate a siding to support an interchange between Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway;

• Moran Industries Inc., $75,065, to construct a switch track to access NS' rail line and serve a warehouse;

• Delaware River Stevedores Inc., $41,300, to construct a siding to increase the efficiency of its terminal transloading operations; and

• Bowater Inc./Nuwater Paper, $74,375, to construct a siding to service Nuway Paper's facility.