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No. 11 · Sep 28

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #11

No. 8 · Sep 14

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #8

Sixteen years after $230 million was supposed to bring Amtrak to the Quad Cities by 2015, the service still hasn't started and the funding is expiring — plus Alaska's $184 million rail extension to a port with no trains yet.

No. 7 · Sep 7

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #7

A $10 million TIGER grant, a $300 million station, and what Bridgeport has to show for it — plus two fresh CRISI awards improving a freight interlocking in Illinois and passenger safety in Los Angeles.

No. 6 · Aug 31

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #6

What Washington's latest continuing resolution actually means for CRISI funding after October 1, plus two real awards moving forward while that fight plays out: a Maine passenger-rail siding and a Jacksonville rail interchange.

No. 5 · Aug 24

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #5

Wisconsin adds $31.8 million toward new intercity passenger service on the Hiawatha corridor, the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis wins $28.8 million for bridge work most freight moving through the city depends on, and a $175 million river-crossing study that never became a bridge.

No. 4 · Aug 17

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #4

Alabama's port authority lands a $67.3 million CRISI grant to relieve container congestion at Mobile, Maine gets $17.5 million to modernize 75 miles of Pan Am mainline, and a cancelled Hudson River tunnel shows what happens when Washington asks for its money back.

No. 3 · Aug 10

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #3

A federal award in California, Virginia's short-line-only grant program opens its winter window, and Michigan's two rail programs most operators haven't compared side by side.

No. 2 · Aug 3

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #2

Two more of this cycle's largest CRISI awards, and the federal reauthorization question every applicant should be watching before the next NOFO.

No. 1 · Jul 27

Rail Funding Brief — Issue #1

Pennsylvania's freight rail grant window closes in two weeks, New York's DOT wins the year's largest CRISI award, and Ohio keeps writing checks on a rolling calendar most operators don't know to watch.