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Pennsylvania’s Transportation Commission recently approved 48 freight-rail grants totaling $38.5 million.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Rail Freight, Ports & Waterways will administer the grants, which include $30 million from the state’s Rail Freight Capital Budget/Transportation Assistance program and $8.5 million from the Rail Freight Assistance program.

Recipients include railroads, transportation organizations, municipalities, municipal authorities and freight-rail users.

Among the railroad recipients, the state will grant:
• $4 million to CSX Transportation to improve overhead clearances at 16 locations, and another $1.5 million to construct a new track;
• $4 million to Kiski Junction Railroad Inc. to extend a rail spur to serve an expanding coal mine;
• $1.5 million to Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad Inc. to connect Allegheny & Eastern and Buffalo & Pittsburgh mainlines to bypass Johnsonburg Yard for through trains;
• $963,900 to RJ Corman Railroad Group to rehabilitate a tunnel;
• $728,000 to Allegheny Valley Railroad Co. to rehabilitate track;
• $557,200 to East Penn Railroad L.L.C. to rehabilitate track and upgrade six grade crossings;
• $521,200 to Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. to repair 20 bridge pedestals and replace ties on a mainline;
• $329,000 to Gettysburg & Northern Railroad Co. to rehabilitate track; and
• $224,000 to Conrail to rehabilitate track.