Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Amtrak, states, regional commuter railroads and the DOT laid out an ambitious 15-year plan to ready the Northeast Corridor for future growth.

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Plans Railroad DOT 146

BD+C

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Construction of Chicago’s new Metra Union Pacific/West commuter railroad station in Lombard, Ill., marks a major improvement for riders as well as the residents of the Village of Lombard. Prior to building the sparkling new station, riders simply boarded from two uncovered platforms.

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Railroad Union Construction 61

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Major bridge and tunnel projects will make the nation’s busiest passenger railroad “safer, faster, and more reliable,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.

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Railroad Transportation 133

Construction Equipment

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Perspective Navigation Technology (PNT) has answered a challenge that the Union Pacific Railroad and other industries that work in and around heavy metal structures encounter.

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Railroad Inspections Union Industrial 57

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Grants from the Federal Railroad Administration will fund high-speed passenger rail projects from North Carolina and Virginia to California and Nevada.

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North Carolina Railroad Nevada Virginia 70

Viewpoint Construction Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2017

We work in the industry so it’s no surprise to us that construction has been referenced in music for decades. From kid songs like “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” all the way to anthems like “We Built This City,” construction-themed songs have made their way into our lives.

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Railroad Construction US Industrial 139

ENR Construction

JANUARY 9, 2019

Freight and commuter railroads across the U.S. achieved enough milestones by a Dec. 31, 2018, federal deadline for installing automatic train control systems to avoid potential federal penalties.

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Railroad 42

Construction Equipment

JUNE 14, 2016

A new company will take over repairs and eventual operations of the Desert Line railroad, clearing the way for repairs to begin this summer and for trains to move goods made in Mexico into the United States by 2018.

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Railroad San Diego United States Leases 48

Job Order Contracting

MAY 4, 2023

The validity of a construction cost estimate, the most important aspect, is often overlooked and resulting in billions of dollars was every year. A construction cost estimate must be independently validated. Key Principles There are key principles that should be adhered to when preparing a construction cost estimate.

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Estimating Construction Risk Documentation 195

Construction Dive

JULY 13, 2023

The civil construction giants announced they have completed modernization work on the Long Island Railroad's 33rd Street train hall.

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Railroad Construction 77

The Constructor

JUNE 11, 2020

Pipe culvert is a tunnel structure constructed using pipes under roadways or railroads to provide cross drainage or to take electrical or other.

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Railroad Electrical Construction 131

Construction Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

MCI) provides a diverse range of civil construction services including demolition and asbestos abatement, site preparation and earthmoving, landfill construction, railroad construction, land remediation, utilities and infrastructure improvements, asphalt and concrete paving, and marine construction services.

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Railroad Infrastructure Concrete Site 52

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Grants from the Federal Railroad Administration will fund high-speed passenger rail projects from North Carolina and Virginia to California and Nevada.

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North Carolina Railroad Nevada Virginia 80

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 28, 2023

s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 high speed railroad is shifting into the fit-out stage with more than $6 billion of track and system work being readied for procurement. With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s

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Railroad Procurement 83

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Texas Central Partners is pressing on with the Dallas-to-Houston line and will appeal a court ruling that denied it railroad designation and land rights.

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Texas Railroad Houston Dallas 134

ENR Construction

MAY 31, 2022

mile viaduct for a new high-speed railroad. . A 525-ft-long sliding girder, originally built for a Hong Kong project, will place around 1,000 concrete elements of a 2.1-mile

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Railroad Concrete Construction 74

Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Federal BUILD grant will help construct 5.5 miles of rail to connect to nearby railroad and industrial park, promoting job creation in Tennessee’s most economically disadvantaged county. Read: $7M Grant To Help Tennessee Build Port Of Cates Landing Rail Extension at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Tennessee Railroad Industrial Construction 111

ENR Construction

AUGUST 29, 2017

A section of international Rhine Valley Railroad started sinking in mid-August as the 10.9-m-dia, m-dia, 93-m-long bentonite machine worked a few meters below in ground that had been supposedly stabilized by freezing.

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Railroad Contractors 44

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Project involves repairs to stations on the MTA's No. 7 Line between Queens and Manhattan's west side.

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Railroad Contract 78

ENR Construction

MAY 17, 2023

Federal Railroad Administration issues a supplemental draft environmental review for planned modernization of the 115-year-old facility.

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Railroad Plans Union Drafting 81

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Lines meet Dec. 31 deadline to install key safety technology, spending about $11.5 billion, with $3.4 billion in federal grant and loan funds provided.

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Railroad Safety 74

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Undulating timber roofs now shelter passengers using a new railroad station at the Norwegian city of Ski. It lies close to the south portal of the multibillion-dollar underground high-speed Follo Line railroad to the capital city, Oslo.

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Railroad 36

ENR Construction

AUGUST 2, 2021

Remote site, political tensions and pandemic all added to delays in construction.

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Railroad Site Construction 74

ENR Construction

MARCH 30, 2021

State will embark on 10-year, $3.7B expansion.

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Railroad Virginia Infrastructure Plans 85

ENR Construction

MAY 18, 2022

The planned Uinta Basin Railway would connect a mineral-rich region to the national rail network.

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Railroad Utah Plans 74

ENR Construction

MAY 6, 2021

Farley Post Office Building (1912) was no longer the center of the city’s mail-handling operations, proposed that conversion to a railroad station could help relieve Penn Station’s notorious congestion. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, noticing that McKim, Mead & White’s James A.

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Railroad Office Construction 67

ENR Construction

MAY 18, 2018

Freight railroads have positive train control systems on 60% of their route miles, passenger lines lag, at 25%.

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Railroad 31

ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Norfolk Southern Railroad has provided Ohio environmental officials with a proposed action plan to remediate environmental damage stemming from a Feb. 3 freight train derailment and ensuing fire.

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Ohio Railroad Plans 69

ENR Construction

MAY 16, 2023

Construction is officially underway to replace the Walk Bridge, the troublesome 127-year-old Norwalk, Conn., railroad crossing with a new, more reliable structure better suited to the northeast’s growing volume of passenger traffic.

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Railroad Construction 41

ENR Construction

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas Central Railroad wants to build a $30-billion high-speed passenger rail between Dallas and Houston.

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Texas Railroad Houston Dallas 95

ENR Construction

MAY 13, 2015

million-sq-ft first phase of air-rights development is at the mercy of the track outages offered by the Long Island Railroad.

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Railroad 28

ENR Construction

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Federal funds are aimed at improving safety at multiple Metrolink high-volume train crossings.

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Railroad California Safety 69

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Lines comply with Dec. 31 deadline for key safety technology, spending about $11.5 billion, with $3.4 billion in federal grant and loan funds provided.

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Railroad US Safety 73

ENR Construction

APRIL 21, 2021

billion civil construction program for the U.K.’s ’s London to Birmingham high-speed railroad. Construction began late last year. Robotic arms for tunnel-boring machines, concrete reinforcement made of old wind turbine blades and machine learning to reduce concrete waste are among innovations emerging from the $16.7-billion

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Innovation Railroad Concrete Construction 74

ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Despite a historic pace for the installation of new railroad signaling and monitoring technologies, U.S. freight and commuter railroads will not meet the Federal Railroad Administration-imposed deadline to equip infrastructure assets with positive train controls (PTCs) by Dec.

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Railroad Infrastructure Equipment 28

ENR Construction

JANUARY 25, 2022

When Daniel O’Connell’s Sons won the construction contract in 2018 for the $122-million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project in Springfield, Mass.,

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Railroad Sewer Connecticut Commissioning 74

Construction Dive

JANUARY 6, 2020

The California High-Speed Rail issued the request for proposals to three design-build groups, even though the Federal Railroad Administration said it would not approve the RFP.

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California Railroad Design 107