More Amtrak Rail Yard Modernizations Underway

Amtrak continues to organize for extra riders and extra trendy prepare know-how, including three Northeast Hall (NEC) design-build initiatives to a multi-billion-dollar rail yard modernization program that the company says will enhance service reliability and facilitate safer, extra environment friendly upkeep operations.

Funded by the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act, the concurrent modernizations will present services and infrastructure to enhance upkeep efficiencies and scale back turnaround instances throughout repairs and inspections as Amtrak transitions to new trainsets—together with NextGen Acela high-speed trains, which started service alongside the NEC this summer season—and dual-power electrical and diesel Amtrak Airo trains, set to start service subsequent 12 months. Amtrak has additionally begun the method of upgrading its 40-year-old fleet of in a single day trains.

At Amtrak’s Sunnyside Yard in Lengthy Island Metropolis, a three way partnership of Peter Scalamandre & Sons Inc. and Citnalta Development Corp. will design and assemble a two-track upkeep and inspection facility, and 6 new service and cleansing tracks with cover protection. The $1.3-billion venture additionally contains consolidating commissary, worker workspace, materials storage and parking right into a single location inside the yard; bringing 11 present service platforms to a state of fine restore; and different infrastructure upgrades reminiscent of reconfiguring two main interlockings and tracks connecting the yard to the NEC.

Amtrak’s Ivy Metropolis Yard in Washington, D.C. is about for a $705-million improve.
Rendering courtesy of Amtrak

In keeping with a social media publish by Citnalta, the three way partnership crew additionally contains Dewberry Engineers, RailWorks Company and L.Okay. Comstock. The venture is presently set for completion in 2030.

In Washington, D.C., Amtrak’s Ivy Metropolis Yard is about for a $705-million improve by the three way partnership of Clark Development Co. and Herzog Contracting Corp. In keeping with STV, the crew’s lead designer, the five-year venture contains demolishing and changing parts of the yard’s outdated major upkeep construction, developing a 150,000-sq-ft devoted prepare servicing facility, relocating tracks and changing storage areas into service tracks. Constructions constructed within the mid-Eighties will likely be rebuilt with raised roofs to permit for extra overhead house for equipment and the addition of a catenary system whereas additionally offering a safer atmosphere for staff beneath, inside and atop trains.

As well as, new gasoline stations for Airo trains on the Ivy Metropolis Yard will scale back the period of time wanted to transition from NEC electrified service to non-electrified routes south of Washington.

For Boston’s Southampton Yard, a three way partnership of SPS New England and Railroad Development Co. will oversee a $583-million improve that features building of a two-track upkeep and inspection facility, and renovation of the present two-track regional service and inspection facility right into a two-track service and cleansing facility. Full venture completion is predicted in 2029.

The $583-million Southampton Yard improve in Boston contains building of a two-track upkeep and inspection facility.
Rendering Courtesy Amtrak

Two different Amtrak rail yard modernization efforts started final 12 months. At round Penn Coach Yard in Philadelphia, Herzog broke floor in October on a $462-million design-build venture that features a 350,000-sq-ft heavy upkeep facility that consolidate a number of, presently dispersed capabilities. Options embody a two-bay upkeep and inspection facility with inspection pits, drop desk and fueling pads, in addition to two adjoining service and cleansing tracks. Scheduled for completion in 2027, the venture additionally provides a direct fixation observe inside the upkeep and repair areas, alternative of catenary constructions, new retaining partitions and storage buildings and utility relocations.

In Seattle, PCL Development Companies Inc., started work final summer season on a $300-million improve on the King Avenue Yard. In keeping with the company, pile driving and mass excavation will likely be accomplished later this 12 months for an almost 100,000-sq-ft pre-engineered upkeep facility. The venture is scheduled for completion in 2027, shortly after Amtrak introduces Airo trains on its Portland-Seattle-Vancouver, BC route.

A sixth rail modernization venture at Amtrak’s Rensselaer-Albany, N.Y., rail yard is presently within the idea starting stage, Amtrak says, with an eye fixed towards offering two upkeep and inspection tracks and three service and cleansing tracks. Amtrak hopes to award a design contract for the venture this fall.