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10/15/2003
Rail News: Short Lines & Regionals
Pennsylvania ponies up $10 million to help small roads fund infrastructure improvements
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On Oct. 14, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) released $10 million in grants to help fund regional and short-line track-improvement projects.
PennDOT's Bureau of Rail Freight, Ports and Waterways oversees the grant program, which is designed to help the state's 69 small roads improve infrastructure.
The grants include:
• $2.8 million to Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad Inc. to rehabilitate a Creekside-to-Homer City mainline and a line to Petrolia;
• $1.8 million to Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. Inc. to continue rehabilitating a mainline from Sunbury to Taylor Yard near Scranton;
• $1.3 million to Keystone Railroad (doing business as Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England Railroad Co.) to construct an all-purpose rail/truck distribution center in Northampton County;
• $1 million to RJ Corman Railroad Co. to rehabilitate the "Clearfield cluster" in three counties;
• $750,000 to Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. to rehabilitate a mainline and passing track, and reconstruct 75 track miles in three counties;
• $750,000 to Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Co. to rehabilitate and repair track in six counties;
• $533,125 to SJA Construction Inc. to rehabilitate and repair track, and purchase loading/unloading equipment for a rail facility at Girard Point in Philadelphia;
• $438,000 to SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority to install continuous-welded rail on Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad Co's line running through three counties;
• $340,000 to Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad to upgrade and rebuild the former Erie-Lackawanna Railroad's track in three counties; and
• $300,000 to the Redevelopment Authority of Luzerne County to rehabilitate a 56-mile segment of Luzerne & Susquehanna Railroad's line in Luzerne County.
PennDOT's Bureau of Rail Freight, Ports and Waterways oversees the grant program, which is designed to help the state's 69 small roads improve infrastructure.
The grants include:
• $2.8 million to Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad Inc. to rehabilitate a Creekside-to-Homer City mainline and a line to Petrolia;
• $1.8 million to Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. Inc. to continue rehabilitating a mainline from Sunbury to Taylor Yard near Scranton;
• $1.3 million to Keystone Railroad (doing business as Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England Railroad Co.) to construct an all-purpose rail/truck distribution center in Northampton County;
• $1 million to RJ Corman Railroad Co. to rehabilitate the "Clearfield cluster" in three counties;
• $750,000 to Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. to rehabilitate a mainline and passing track, and reconstruct 75 track miles in three counties;
• $750,000 to Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Co. to rehabilitate and repair track in six counties;
• $533,125 to SJA Construction Inc. to rehabilitate and repair track, and purchase loading/unloading equipment for a rail facility at Girard Point in Philadelphia;
• $438,000 to SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority to install continuous-welded rail on Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad Co's line running through three counties;
• $340,000 to Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad to upgrade and rebuild the former Erie-Lackawanna Railroad's track in three counties; and
• $300,000 to the Redevelopment Authority of Luzerne County to rehabilitate a 56-mile segment of Luzerne & Susquehanna Railroad's line in Luzerne County.
