Railway Track & Structures

The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) Board has signed off on a $190.5 million contract with Stacy and Witbeck/Herzog, A Joint Venture (SWH), authorizing the final design and construction of approximately 4.75 miles of rail infrastructure between the existing northern terminus (Windsor Station) and Healdsburg (at Front Street) in Sonoma County, Calif. (See map below) (Courtesy of SMART) SMART’s Oct.

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For The Moles Annual Student Day, Amtrak hosted more than 400 civil engineering and construction management college students to tour the Connecticut River Bridge Replacement Project. The Connecticut River Bridge project broke ground in 2024 between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme in Connecticut. It is currently underway with early construction activities and an outage beginning next month. The outage will last until November 2027. The new structure will be moveable “with a trunnion . . .

MTA has selected STV and WSP in a joint venture to lead design and preliminary engineering for a major climate resilience program along Metro-North’s Hudson Line. The project is part of a larger investment, totaling $800 million, to protect the corridor from climate-related threats, including flooding.

Norfolk Southern and the cities of Birmingham and Trussville, Ala., have selected Kimley-Horn to lead the design and environmental review phase of R.E.D.E.S.I.G.N. Alabama, a project slated to reduce blocked highway/rail grade crossings and increase capacity for freight trains entering and leaving NSs Norris Yard in Irondale.

Officials ready for the Oct. 19 project groundbreaking in Van Nuys, Calif. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) on Oct. 19 held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the much-anticipated 6.7-mile, 11-station East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project. The project, which will run in the middle of Van Nuys Boulevard from the G Line to San Fernando Road, is slated to cost nearly $4 billion and targeted for completion in 2032.

The USDOT announced the FRA will invest $2.3 billion into freight and passenger rail projects, improving more than 2,000 miles of track. The funding comes from the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Grant Program.

San Francisquito Creek Railroad Bridge, located between Menlo Park and Palo Alto, Calif. California’s Caltrain has completed in-stream construction for the San Francisquito Creek Bank Stabilization Project to help protect a railroad bridge and a pedestrian/bicycle bridge between Menlo Park and Palo Alto by reducing erosion and strengthening the creek banks against future storm impacts.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will continue work on various projects in November. As a result of work on the Orange Line, speeds have been increased to 55 miles per hour between Assembly Station and North Station. In November, the MBTA says it will continue major construction work on the subway and Commuter Rail system.

Jon Moretta, Egis. Global architecture, consulting, construction engineering, operations, and mobility services firm Egis has appointed Jon Moretta as CEO in the United States. Moretta has more than 35 years of executive leadership experience spanning engineering, operations, business development, capital project delivery, technology, and sustainability.