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Port Bienville Railroad Project

Final EIS and Record of Decision

The combined Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) for the Port Bienville Railroad Project was approved by FRA on 2/3/2020 and does not include substantial changes to the proposed action in terms of environmental or...

Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor Program: Oregon Segment

On April 14, 2021, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), working with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT or Project Sponsor), issued a Record of Decision (ROD) concurrently with a Tier 1 Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for a Corridor Investment Plan (CIP) pursuant to...

Long Bridge Project

The Long Bridge Project (Project) will construct two additional tracks on a new bridge structure over the Potomac River and railroad infrastructure improvements between the RO Interlocking in Arlington, Virginia, and the L’Enfant (LE) Interlocking near 10th Street SW in the District of...

Hudson Tunnel Project, New Jersey and New York

The Gateway Development Commission (GDC), in partnership with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA), is constructing the Hudson Tunnel Project to preserve functionality of the Northeast Corridor’s (NEC) Hudson River rail crossing between New Jersey...

Empire Corridor

Draft Environmental Impact Statement (2014)

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), in cooperation with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), prepared a Tier I Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate proposed system improvements to intercity passenger rail...

Improving Collision Post Crashworthiness of Legacy Locomotives

Modern locomotives are built to crashworthiness standards defined in Subpart D of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 229 as well as the Association of American Railroads’(AAR) S-580 standards. Older locomotives, specifically the narrow-nose locomotives, were not designed to these...

System-Wide Implementation of Rail Right-of-Way Incursion Treatments

From 2016 through 2018, the Volpe Center partnered with SunRail to develop, install, and evaluate promising vehicle ROW incursion prevention engineering treatments. Following this demonstration project, in early 2018 the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)...

Affirmative Action Plan for Employment of Persons with Disabilities

It is the policy of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to provide equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities who are Federal employees or applicants for Federal employment. The FRA will ensure that qualified persons with disabilities, including Federal employees who...

Documents, Maps, & Images

Note: Any images, charts or maps depicting proposed routes, alternatives or alignments do not represent exact positions.  These proposed corridors are approximations that are required to allow the environmental review process to begin.  As the NEPA process continues, a Draft...