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Virginia and Maryland receive federal railroad grants
Grants from the Federal Railroad Administration will support MARC train storage in Maryland and a rail bridge in Newington, Virginia. (Trains Magazine)

Eleven passenger projects receive $291 million in FRA grants

Infrastructure programs in nine states awarded State of Good Repair funds

October 28, 2020
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Scott A. Hartley

WASHINGTON — Eleven projects in nine states have received grants totaling more than $291 million under the Federal Railroad Administration’s Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program. Awards were announced this morning. The program is intended to improve intercity passenger rail performance with repair or replacement of publicly owned assets; many of the projects receiving grants also benefit commuter and freight rail programs.

Some of the projects have been previously announced by local elected officials. Those not previously reported are:

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Maryland — $9.4 million to the Maryland Transit Administration for two storage tracks with catenary and ground power access at MARC’s Martin’s Yard. This will allow for the storage of trainsets currently stored at Baltimore Penn Station, which will allow state-of-good repair work and additional capacity at the Baltimore station.

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Virginia — $14.4 million to the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation to replace the double-track Newington Road Bridge with two new double-track bridges to be owned separately by CSX and the Commonwealth and Virginia as part of improvements in the Washington D.C. area. The project will replace a century-old bridge over a single-lane roadway, which will be widened to two lanes, and eliminate slow orders, allowing operating speeds of 60-70 mph.

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