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BNSF Nears Finish Line On $100M Missouri River Bridge Replacement

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Katherine Petrik – CEG Senior Editor - For nearly three years, one of North Dakota's most significant private infrastructure investments has quietly taken shape alongside a 143-year-old railroad landmark as crews work around the clock to replace a vital freight corridor spanning the Missouri River. Massive cranes rise from bar...

BNSF Updates Bismark Bridge Progress; Outlines Fall Plan

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BNSF - The BNSF bridge project team expected to start using the diesel hammer for pile driving the last week of August for the Bismark Bridge project in North Dakota. Due to the scope and schedule for this season's work, the contractor has been working around the clock since the beginning of...

Link-Belt TCC-1200, TCC-1100 Assist Texas Infrastructure Project

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Link-Belt Cranes - A Link-Belt Cranes TCC-1200 and TCC-1100 are working in Temple, Texas, as part of a $42,645,706 transportation infrastructure project. Launched in February 2025, the initiative, named the Temple Outer Loop North project, seeks to meet growing transportation demands in the area with the co...

Crews Stabilize Slopes, Clear Debris From SR 11 Rockslide

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Washington State Department of Transportation - Work began in early May 2025 to stabilize and clear a significant rockslide that sent thousands of cubic yards of debris across both directions of State Route 11/Chuckanut Drive, closing the road on April 22, 2025, just south of milepost 10 near Blanchard Road by Bow, Wash. Contractor cre...

BNSF '24 Wrap Up: N.D. Bridge Project

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BNSF - With 2024 wrapped up, the BNSF bridge project team is midway through construction of a new railroad bridge at Bismarck, Mandan. Equipment has been removed from the Missouri River as crews demobilized on-water activities for the winter. Cranes and barges, along with sheeting for the cofferdam of P...

BNSF Builds $100M Bridge Near Bismark, North Dakota

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - In North Dakota, crews are building a new rail bridge that will help move freight safely and efficiently over the Missouri River at Bismarck and Mandan. BNSF Railway is overseeing construction of the new single-track structure, which is being built adjacent to the current crossing. ...

Officials Celebrate $17M Overpass Project in Fort Worth

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TxDOT - Brandye Hendrickson, TxDOT deputy executive director for planning and administration, joined Federal Railroad Administration officials, the NCTCOG Transportation Department, Fort Worth officials and BNSF Railway leadership recently to celebrate a $17 million FRA grant to construct an overpass at ...

$4B Illinois Tollway Reconstruction Under Way

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Illinois Tollway's $4 billion reconstruction of the 22-mi.-long Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) from Balmoral Avenue to 95th Street will provide congestion relief and reconstruct aging bridges and other infrastructure to meet current and future traffic demands, while also a...

Improving Minnesota Roads, BNSF Rail Operations

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Construction began in mid-July for the $34 million, design-build Willmar Wye project, an initiative led by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and its partners — Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), city of Willmar, Kandiyohi County and the Kandiyohi ...

U.S. Officials Approve Railroad's Plans for Northern Idaho

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Keith Ridler - ASSOCIATED PRESS - BOISE, Idaho (AP) BNSF Railway's plan to build two bridges as part of a second railroad line in northern Idaho to accommodate increased train traffic and future growth meets environme...

BNSF OKs $175M for Washington Rail

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Business Wire - BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced Feb. 22 that its 2019 capital expenditure program in Washington will be approximately $175 million. Much of this year's capital plan in the state...

Rail Traffic Rises Amid N.M., Texas Oil Surge

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Associated Press - CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) Traffic is surging in the railroad industry in southeast New Mexico due to the oil boom in the state and West Texas. The number of rail cars traveling through the Carlsbad area almost tripled during the region's recent oil boom as extraction continued to grow in Pe...

Plans to Develop Former Railyard Move Forward

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Associated Press - SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Officials say a development group will invest as much as $70 million in redeveloping the downtown Sioux Falls rail yard. The Argus Leader reports that city officials have chosen David and Erika Billion to lead the first phase of development on 10 acres acquired in 2...

Officials Approve Railroad's Plan for Second Bridge

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Associated Press - SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) Idaho officials have approved BNSF Railway's application for a permit to build a second railroad bridge in northern Idaho across Lake Pend Oreille and Sand Creek...

BNSF Plans $80M Capital Program in New Mexico

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CEG - BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced that its 2018 capital expenditure program in New Mexico will be approximately $80 million. Roughly half of this year's plan in New Mexico is focused on maintenance projects to ensure BNSF continues to operate a safe and reliable rail network and includes ...

New Bridge Debuts as 'Off Broadway' Work Continues

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CEG - The curtain is up and I-235 in Oklahoma City is now open following the first bridge move of its kind in state history by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. The interstate was closed for nearly 60 hours to move two giant bridge spans into place and now the new BNSF railroad bridge is takin...

BNSF Plans $375M Program

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CEG - BNSF Railway Company announced that its 2018 capital expenditure program in Texas will be approximately $375 million. To ensure BNSF continues to operate a safe and reliable rail network, nearly half of this year's spending in Texas will be for the maintenance of its rail, ties and ballast &...

ADOT Places Largest Girders in State on Salt River Bridges

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CEG - The Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, already the largest single highway project in Arizona history, now has the longest bridge girders of their type in the state.As long as a 17-story building and each weighing as much as 14 elephants, 94 extra-long single span girders have already been pl...

BNSF Finalizes Work on Logistics Center at Sweetwater in West Texas

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Irwin Rapoport - The final aspects of the $27.9 million investment by BNSF Railway for construction of the Logistics Center at Sweetwater in west Texas were completed — $21.9 million for the logistic center and $6 million for improvements to supporting track in the area, a project that began in September 20...

Few Rails Likely to Meet Safety Tech Deadline

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Joan Lowy - ASSOCIATED PRESS - WASHINGTON (AP) Only a handful of railroads are close to meeting a deadline this year to install safety technology that can prevent many crashes, including derailments due to excessive speed like the deadly Amtrak crash in Philadelphia in May, according to a government report released Aug. 7....

Elevated Bypass on Seattle’s SR 99 Almost Done

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Irwin Rapoport - The ongoing construction of the $29.37 million Holgate to King Street project — an h-shaped bridge (elevated bypass) in downtown Seattle, Wash. — is expected to be complete next March and is part of the ongoing work to build the Alaska Way Tunnel.The 1,428-ft. (435 m) long bypa...

BNSF to Install 2nd Track From Idaho to Spokane Valley

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CEG - SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Rising train traffic is prompting BNSF Railway to make plans to install a second track from Hauser, Idaho, to the Spokane Valley. The project calls for a 4.4-mi. second track to be installed parallel to an existing BNSF mainline track, which carries freight from Seattl...

Federal Board Rejects Challenge to I-40 Project

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Tim Talley - ASSOCIATED PRESS - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A federal agency has authorized the relocation of an Oklahoma City railway line that lies in the path of the most expensive highway construction project ever undertaken in the state.In a ruling handed down on May 19, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) granted an app...

Ruling Could Delay Crosstown Expressway Work

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Tim Talley - ASSOCIATED PRESS - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The most expensive highway construction project ever undertaken by the state could be delayed if a federal agency denies an application to relocate a railway line that lies directly in the project’s path, officials said April 29.The federal Surface Transportation ...

Largest Urban Highway Project Under Way in Mont.

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Rebecca Ragain - U.S. Highway 2 runs east-west through Montana, roughly parallel to the U.S./Canadian border. Because U.S. 2 also follows the northernmost line of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway, the highway and the country it passes through are known collectively as the Hi-Line.In t...