(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on March 9, 2011.)
Union Pacific Railroad has budgeted $12.9 million to upgrade a 76-mile line between Watsonville and San Lucas, Calif.
Part of the Class I’s $3.2 billion capital spending budget for 2011, the project calls for installing new rail and more than 82,000 ties, and spreading 42,000 tons of ballast along a corridor that runs through California’s central coast.
The full story is on the Progressive Railroading website.