2015 Rail Freight Assistance Program
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August 2016 2015 RAIL FREIGHT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Total Project State County Applicant Project Name Project Description Cost Share Projects Recommended for Funding Alumax Mill Construct 1,500 foot double rail LANCASTER Double Rail Spur $357,143 $250,000 Products, Inc. spur including two new switches. Consolidated Rail Conrail Marcus Hook Replace three existing railroad DELAWARE $371,069 $259,748 Corporation Diamond Rehab diamonds. Repair the Delaware Lackawanna railroad bridge over the West The Delaware- Branch Lehigh River. Repairs LACKAWANNA, Lackawanna\ Bridge MP 113.52 include wingwall and backwall $987,000 $690,900 WAYNE Railroad Company Rehabilitation restoration, bridge seat cleaning, Inc. face resurfacing, and re- establishment of original bridge elevation. BERKS, ESPN Track Rehab - Rehabilitate the Lancaster East Penn Railroad LANCASTER, Lancaster Northern & Northern and York Line, including $800,000 $560,000 LLC YORK York Lines tie replacement and surfacing. Replace 4,000 linear feet of rail, The Everett Everett Railroad Track 1,200 ties, one public grade BLAIR $514,500 $360,150 Railroad Company Improvement crossing, and surface two miles of track. JMC Steel Group Construct two industrial spur Wheatland Tube MERCER dba Wheatland tracks, two turnouts, and a loading/ $375,000 $262,500 Industrial Spur Tracks Tube Company unloading pad. Kane Warehousing Warehouse DC5 Rail Construct 1,000 track foot spur LACKAWANNA $325,000 $227,500 Inc. Expansion and one No. 8 turnout. Leetsdale Industrial Leetsdale Industrial Construct two new spurs, and ALLEGHENY $428,374 $299,862 Corporation Park raise, line, and surface track. Install a runaround track at ROCK BRADFORD, Lehigh Railway ROCK Siding and Rail station and install five rail flange $418,162 $292,713 WYOMING LLC Lubricators lubricators along Lehigh Railway's main line. Repair a twin cell stone masonry Lewisburg & box culvert that includes slip lining Buffalo Creek UNION LBCX Culvert Repair a 24” pipe thru each cell and $310,000 $217,000 Railroad installation of 60” steel pipe south Corporation of existing structure. Middleton Aliquippa Rail Rehabilitate 4,800 feet of track and BEAVER Properties West, Rehabilitation and $905,302 $633,711 construct 2,700 feet of new track. LLC Construction Project www.TalkPATransportation.com Page 1 August 2016 2015 RAIL FREIGHT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Total Project State County Applicant Project Name Project Description Cost Share Projects Recommended for Funding Repair a 310’ stone masonry Conshohocken Mittal Steel USA retaining wall, improve 1,085 MONTGOMERY Retaining Wall and $446,500 $312,550 Railways, Inc. feet of track, and install two #8 Track rehabilitation turnouts. Pennsylvania PSWR Yard Rehabilitate five tracks, a pit track BEAVER Southerwestern Rehabilitation Phase I: $765,157 $535,610 and turnout. Railroad Outside Trks 1,2,3 Rehabilitate Robinson Lane track including replacing one turnout, Robinson Lane Track SEDA-COG Joint installing culvert boxes and CENTRE Reconstruction and $426,045 $298,232 Rail Authority drainage pipes, surfacing, and Turnout Improvements deck timber and bridge planking deck replacement. Rehabilitate mainline track Three Rivers 2015 Gibsonton including the replacement of WESTMORELAND Marine Rail Terminal Track $191,350 $133,945 crossties, bolts, and bridge timber, Terminal LP Maintenance Project surfacing, installing ballast NSN/Girard Breaker Reading Anthracite Reconstruct three grade crossings SCHUYLKILL Crossing and Load-out $1,000,000 $700,000 Company and improve drainage. Rehabilitation Project TOTAL NUMBER OF PROJECTS RECOMMENDED FOR FUNDING (16) $8,620,602 $6,034,421 www.TalkPATransportation.com Page 2 August 2016 2015 RAIL FREIGHT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Total Project State County Applicant Project Name Project Description Cost Share Projects Recommended for Funding Construct 50 feet of new track, rehabilitate 1,000 feet of track, Rail Rehabilitation and American Refining one turnout and two crossings, MCKEAN Loading Area $2,296,000 $1,607,200 Group, Inc rehabilitate 400 feet of track, Improvements modify six existing loading racks, and project management. Improve BPRR’s Butler Yard and Capacity & Weight shop tracks and CN yard tracks Buffalo & Improvements leased by BPRR. Restore a BUTLER Pittsburgh $5,208,800 $3,646,160 Connecting Rail, Water crossover connection to CN and Railroad, Inc. and Road Access repair 8 bridge structures on the Northern Subdivision. Construct new main lead track, crossovers, turnouts, and double- CSX McKees Rocks Mainline switch point derails, and signals ALLEGHENY $8,470,000 $3,000,000 Transportation Inc. Upgrades to allow intermoadal trains to pull off the mainline to serve the Pittsburgh Intermodal Terminal. Extend the switching lead track and two unloading pit yard tracks. Replace transload track on an Smithfield Transload adjacent alignment and relocate FAYETTE D and I Silica $1,886,479 $1,320,535 Expansion a turnout to the outer track at the south end of the yard to create a double-ended yard for operational flexibility. Work includes: 1) turnouts, rail, ties, surfacing, and OTM to rebuild a 2,000’ siding; 2) replace 3,800 East Penn Railroad ESPN Octoraro Line CHESTER main line ties, 110 main line $950,000 $665,000 LLC Rehabilitation 2015 switch timbers, surface 5 main line turnouts and 18,750’ of main line track. Construct and rehabilitate 13,026 track feet and 22 turnouts serving Durabond pipe plant, Chemtron Mittal Steel USA weld plant, Arcelor-Mittal’s O/B Rail Restoration and DAUPHIN Railways Steelton interchange loading area and $2,861,205 $2,002,844 Capacity Expansion Highspire RR 20-inch Mill, and connecting track to Norfolk Southern’s interchange and Steelton & Highspire RR’s main marshalling yard. Pennsylvania Scranton to Carbondale Install 9,000 new ties on PNRRA’s LACKAWANNA Northeast Regional $900,000 $630,000 Rehabilitation Project Carbondale mail line track. Railroad Authority www.TalkPATransportation.com Page 3 August 2016 2015 RAIL FREIGHT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Total Project County Applicant Project Name Project Description State Share Cost Projects Recommended for Funding Install 2,650’ of track and one new Pittsburgh and #10 turnout to track #111 in Scully Scully Track 111 ALLEGHENY Ohio Central Yard to create double-ended track, $600,000 $420,000 Extension Railroad including sub-ballast, ballast, track, & turnouts. Construct a new bridge across the Reading Blue Lehigh River and approximately Nesquehoning Bridge CARBON Mountain & 1200 feet of new track connecting $7,172,857 $5,000,000 Phase II Northern Railroad two existing lines near Nesquehoning Junction. Upgrade 5 bridges: 1) NSHR CENTRE, 194.07; 2) NSHR 195.88; 3) SVRR LYCOMING, SEDA-COG Joint Regional Bridge 14.93; 4) NBER 33.84; 5) NBER $5,000,000 $3,500,000 NORTHUMBERLAND, Rail Authority Upgrades RTAP 2015 33.97Replace 1bridge: LVRR COLUMBIA 179.44 Install track and turnouts to improve Bowest Yard by providing Southwest 5 yard tracks (300 car capy), a Pennsylvania FAYETTE SWP Bowest Yard runaround track, three locomotive $2,894,658 $2,026,261 Railroad tracks, and a second main line Company track between O&B Junction and Dunbar. Repair and rehabilitate the Viaduct, including concrete Union Railroad East Pittsburgh repairs, corrections to structure ALLEGHENY $4,859,621 $3,401,735 Company Viaduct drainage, completion of a 1,600’ passing siding, and the addition of a new walkway and handrails. Install 7,500 new crossties, Western New WNYP McKean reconstruct two 2-track crossings, MCKEAN York Pa. Railroad County Rail Rehabil- re-timber two main line turnouts, $1,179,614 $500,000 Co., LLC itation and surface the 9.20-mile project area. Replace existing rail and steel components (joint bars, bolts, Westmoreland tie plates, anchors, and spikes) Radebaugh County Industrial with head hardened control WESTMORELAND Subdivision Rail Relay $1,527,743 $1,069,420 Development cooled electrically flash welded Phase III Corporation 80’ 136RE rail and new AREMA Best Practices compliant steel components. Welded Rail Install 19.49 track miles of WASHINGTON, Wheeling & Lake Installation on Main continuous welded rail on WLE’s $4,285,714 $1,210,845 ALLEGHENY Erie Railway, Co. Track - Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Subdivision. TOTAL NUMBER OF PROJECTS RECOMMENDED FOR FUNDING (15) $50,092,691 $30,000,000 www.TalkPATransportation.com Page 4.