Federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure Safety and Improvement grants have been announced for projects in Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
R.J. Corman received two of the grants. They include $14.7 million to rebuild 8.6 miles of track in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The grant also covers rebuilding or replacing 14 bridges between Boyertown and Pottstown.
Some funds from the grant will be used for construction of two rail-served transload yards and to improve drainage issues that lead to large quantities of water on nearby roadways.
Corman also was approved for a $7.3 million grant for various projects on its Central Kentucky lines.
One project will create a new freight rail-to-truck transload facility near Frankfort. Another project will improve the main yard and transload facility in Lexington.
Repairs will include rehabilitating grade crossings and track, a new office building, switching replacements and expanding transload storage pads, as well as paving truck and traffic areas.
The Gettysburg Northern Railway will receive $1.84 million to rebuild 24 miles of track in Adams and Cumberland counties.
The project will improve safety standards, construct a new runaround track, upgrade more than 15 crossings and repair seven failing culverts.