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Glacier Rail Park/Kalispell Core Area Development and Trail Project

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) selected the City of Kalispell, Montana, (City) to receive a Fiscal Year 2015 grant award under its Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. The USDOT’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is administering the TIGER...

Southeast High-Speed Rail: Atlanta to Charlotte Passenger Rail Corridor

Overview

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), has completed a Tier I Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and signed a Record of Decision (ROD) for the proposed Atlanta to Charlotte Passenger Rail Corridor Investment...

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)...