(The following appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on March 1, 2011.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new agreement signed by the Washington State Department of Transportation, BNSF Railway and Amtrak clears the way to spend $590 million of a federal grant to upgrade freight tracks for expanded passenger service.
The improvements will be to Amtrak’s Cascades Corridor, which links the cities of Eugene and Portland, Ore., with Seattle, Wash. and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Projects it will fund include building bypass tracks to allow for increased train frequency, multiple upgrades to existing track, grade separations and advanced-warning signal systems.
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