HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation will provide nearly $53 million for 30 rail freight infrastructure projects under a pair of grant programs, PennDOT announced on Wednesday, Jan. 21.
Funding will come from the state’s Rail Transportation Assistance Program and Rail Freight Investment Program, which have invested more than $150 million in the state rail system since 2023.
“Pennsylvania’s rail freight network supports family sustaining jobs and connects Pennsylvania communities to the global economy while bolstering local economic development,” PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll said in a press release. “These investments to expand and improve the network will create opportunities for generations of Pennsylvanians to come.”
Those receiving funding include:
Railroads:
- Allegheny Valley Railroad: $2.1 million to replace 1.3 miles of jointed rail with 136-pound rail on the Allegheny Subdivision (Allegheny County).
- Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad: $4 million to improve 218 miles of its Main Line and P&W subdivisions through replacement of 40 grade crossings, 80,000 feet of rail, and 30,000 ties, along with 48 miles of track surfacing (Armstrong, Butler, Clearfield, Elk, Jefferson, and McKean counties.)
- Central New York Railroad: $3.4 million to rehabilitate Bridge 192.22 near Susquehanna (Susquehanna County).
- Conrail: $1.7 million to replace 11 turnouts within Stoney Creek Yard and include replacements with steel ties (Delaware County).
- Everett Railroad: $285,000 to rehabilitate a bridge approach, masonry substructure, and bridge deck in Freedom Township (Blair County).
- Lehigh Valley Rail Management: $2.1 million to replace approximately 7,000 ties and install 10 new turnouts at its Johnstown facility (Cambria County).
- Pennsylvania & Southern Railway: $912,000 to rehabilitate more than 6,000 feet on inbound and outbound tracks serving the Cumberland Valley Business Park in Chambersburg (Franklin County).
- Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad: $3.1 million to rehabilitate approximately 20 miles of track on the Laurel Subdivision, as well as improve 6 miles of track and a grade crossing, and install two switch machines, at Butler Yard (Butler, Cameron, and Elk counties).
- Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad: $1.1 million to build 4,800 feet of new track at Scully Yard and rehabilitate 10,560 linear feet of track on the Arden Subdivision (Washington County).
- R.J. Corman Railroad Co. Lehigh Line: $3 million to rehabilitate approximately 22 miles of track with ties, ballast, and surfacing (Bradford and Wyoming counties).
- R.J. Corman Railroad Co. Pennsylvania Lines: $1 million to rehabilitate approximately 8 miles of track on the Cresson and Wallaceton subdivisions with ties, ballast, and surfacing (Cambria and Clearfield counties).
- Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad: $3.24 million to replace 3 miles of jointed rail with welded rail on the Radebaugh Subdivision (Westmoreland County).
- Strasburg Rail Road: $1.2 million to rehabilitate approximately 3,000 feet of track, improve a grade crossing, and install permanent bulk transloading equipment (Lancaster County).
- Union Railroad: $700,000 to replace ties on seven tracks in its Ore Yard and four tracks at its Joe Wolf Yard. (Allegheny County).
- Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway: $5.9 million to rehabilitate three bridges on the Pittsburgh and Rook subdivisions (Washington County).
- York Railway: $1.5 million for rail replacement, upgrading turnouts, and surfacing of two grade crossings at Lincoln Yard (York County).
Other companies and agencies:
- Allen Distribution: $722,000 to build three sidings at a 625,000-square-foot logistics center served by Norfolk Southern in Jackson Township (Lebanon County).
- Berks County Redevelopment Authority: $2.6 million to replace 1,600 feet of existing track, and build 2,430 feet of new track and a siding to serve the Boyertown Foundry (Berks County)
- Consolidated Scrap Resources: $455,000 to rehabilitate existing track and build new track within its 28-acre Harrisburg yard (Dauphin County).
- Greiner Packaging Corp: $1.6 million to build a 0.2-mile spur and a 1,600-linear-foot vacuum push/pull system to transfer resin from its railyard to on-site silos (Luzerne County).
- H&K Group, Inc.: $827,000 to rehabilitate and improve the Birdsboro Quarry siding. (Berks County)
- MetalTech: $840,000 to replace 2,000 feet of rail and rebuild a 250-foot concrete embedded grade crossing at its metals processing facility (Allegheny County).
- Peachy Rail Works: $810,000 to build two additional tracks and install unloading equipment (Lebanon County).
- Philadelphia Regional Port Authority: $974,473 to rehabilitate 2,600 feet of storage track and replace a turnout at Tioga Marine Terminal (Philadelphia County).
- Riverside Materials Inc.: $679,000 to rehabilitate an industrial unloading and conveying system used for unit trains of aggregates (Philadelphia County).
- Redevelopment Authority of Luzerne County: $673,000 to rehabilitate a grade crossing and undertake approximately 10 miles of spot tie replacement (Luzerne County).
- SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority: $2.1 million to rehabilitate five bridges on the Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad’s Nittany Main and Bellefonte Branch (Blair and Centre counties).
- Sekisui Kydex, LLC: $1 million to remove an existing siding and build a new extended siding to increase capacity at its Bloomsburg South Campus (Columbia County).
- Snavely’s Mill: $3.2 million to build two new rail spurs and rehabilitate more than 3,000 feet of track at its transloading facility (Clinton County).
- South Avis Realty: $819,000 to replace ties and rehabilitate three grade crossings throughout its facility (Clinton County).
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