A joint venture between O&G Industries and Tutor Perini will soon start laying tracks for Amtrak’s $1.3 billion Connecticut River Bridge Replacement project.
The passenger rail company announced June 28 that it had selected the JV to begin construction on a new bridge to replace the current structure, which first went into service in 1907 and consistently fails to open and close for shipping traffic on the river. The 1,500-foot-long span currently serves more than 50 trains a day.
The project is part of a larger, $16 billion push to improve Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor infrastructure that includes building a new, two-track rail tunnel under the Hudson River between northern New Jersey and Manhattan and the Frederick Douglass Tunnel in Baltimore, among other projects.
Source: www.constructiondive.com