RailAmerica Inc. (44 U.S. and Canadian Railroads)
2005 MOW budget: $46.7 million
2004 MOW budget: $46.3 million
Reason for increase: Tax credit legislation (also will increase 2006, 2007 MOW spending)
Rail: Replace 30 track miles with CWR
Ties: Replace or install 479,207 wood crossties and 6,116 wood switch ties
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 1,021 miles
Ballast: Install 325,000 tons
Bridge/tunnel work: Various projects; total bridge and tunnel budget of $5.4 million
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Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern/Iowa Chicago & Eastern Railroads
2005 MOW budget: $37 million
2004 MOW budget: $60 million
Reason for decrease: Obtained funds in 2004 from FRA’s RRIF program
Rail: Install 31 miles of new 136-pound CWR;
6 miles of new 115-pound CWR; and 1 mile of used 132-pound rail
Ties: Replace or install 100,000 wood
Grinding/surfacing: Surface more than 600 miles
Ballast: Install 175,000 tons
Bridge work: Rebuild Bad River bridge in Fort Pierre, S.D.; upgrade all bridges between New Ulm and Sleepy Eye, Minn., to handle 286k
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Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
(25 U.S., 3 Canadian, 1 Mexican Railroad)
2005 MOW budget: $24.4 million
2004 MOW budget: $16.5 million
Reasons for increase: Tax credit legislation, additional track miles acquired and/or leased, and higher traffic volume the past two years
Rail: Replace or install 54 miles with CWR;
8 miles with gauge
Sidings: Construct 0.2-mile siding in Illinois
Ties: Replace or install 221,700 wood
Ballast: Install 130,000 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Grind 185 miles; surface 544 miles
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OmniTRAX Inc.
(11 U.S. and 3 Canadian Railroads)
2005 and 2004 MOW budgets: N/A
Rail: Replace or install 3.2 miles with new or
secondhand jointed rail
Sidings: Construct 7,500-foot siding in Washington and 7,100-foot siding in Colorado Bridge work: Ongoing maintenance
Ties: Replace or install 30,000 wood
Ballast: Install 36,000 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 150 miles
Other significant MOW projects: Complete two industry tracks (8,500 feet) in Colorado
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Florida East Coast Railway
2005 MOW budget: $15.4 million
2004 MOW budget: $15.4 million
Rail: Install 7.5 track miles of 136-pound CWR and 6.7 track miles of 132-pound secondhand CWR
Ballast: Install 26,000 tons
Ties: Replace or install 14,000 wood (cross, switch, bridge, transition) and 7,000 concrete
Grinding/surfacing: Grind 450 pass miles; surface 227 miles
Bridge work: Construct 60-foot deck girder, 30-inch pipe pile, two per bent, cast-in-place abutments and caps, timber ballast deck in Fort Pierce, $800,000, completed in March
Other significant MOW projects: Construct 5.8-mile Miami Rock Lead, includes building two running tracks, two R&D tracks and a mechanical repair track to move more rock
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Montana Rail Link
2005 MOW budget: $15.1 million
2004 MOW budget: $14.2 million
Reason for increase: Higher rail prices
Rail: Replace 16 miles with 136- and 141-pound CWR, and 112-pound secondhand rail
Ties: Replace or install 100,000 wood
Ballast: Install 80,000 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Grind 450 pass miles; surface 190 miles
Bridge/tunnel work: Complete six tie renewal bridge projects; tunnel work involves encasing steel sets with concrete
Other significant MOW projects: Clean 150 miles of shoulders
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Alaska Railroad Corp.
2005 MOW budget: $15 million
2004 MOW budget: $10 million
Reason for increase: Will purchase new rail and equipment for welded rail program
Rail: Install 50 miles miles of welded rail
Ties: Replace or install 17,000 concrete
Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd.
2005 MOW budget: $13.4 million
2004 MOW budget: $5 million
Reason for increase: Expect to receive a RRIF loan from the FRA
Rail: Replace 26 miles miles with CWR
Ties: Replace or install 30,000 wood. Ballast: Install 60,000 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Grind 20 miles; surface 100 miles
Bridge work: Five re-decking projects; one foundation repair project
Other significant MOW projects: Two slope stabilizations, $800, 000
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Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co.
2005 MOW budget: $7.8 million
2004 MOW budget: $7.8 million
Rail: Replace 26,500 feet with CWR
Ties: Replace or install 37,400 wood. Ballast: Install 35,000 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Grind 32 miles; surface 95 miles
Bridge work: Replace concrete caps, backwalls and wire walls at Lake Street Bridge; build two retaining walls
Other significant MOW projects: Replace Michigan Avenue yard office; realign east end lead at West Yard
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New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway Corp.
2005 MOW budget: $4.5 million (plus)
2004 MOW budget: $8 million
Rail: Replace 3.8 miles with CWR
Ties: Replace or install 25,000 wood. Ballast: Install 30,000 tons
Bridge work: Build new bridge in Ridgefield, N.J., $497,000, started in March; rehab Ridgefield bridge, $97,000, start in September
Other significant MOW projects: Weld in place 6 miles of rail ($1.25 million); upgrade Sparta Terminal, includes sidings, paving and water lines ($738,000); and build a construction debris facility ($748,000)
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Providence & Worcester Railroad Corp.
2005 MOW budget: $3.7 million
2004 MOW budget: $2.6 million
Reason for increase: Complete double-stack clearance work
Rail: Replace 3.8 miles with 115- and 136-pound stick rail
Ballast: Install 17,000 tons
Ties: Replace or install 20,000 wood
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 35 miles
Bridge work: Replace 40-foot timber bridge with steel structure in Dayville, Conn., $265,000, started in April; replace three timber decks in Holden,Uxbridge and Blackstone, Mass., $56,000, started in February
Other significant MOW projects: Construct 60-foot-by-125-foot C&S office/maintenance building in Putnam, Conn., $300,000, started in January
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Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Co.
2005 MOW budget: $2.6 million
2004 MOW budget: $3.7 million
Reasons for decrease: Purchased a rail train, installed 17,000 lineal feet (LF) of rail and laid out 59,000 LF of rail in 2004
Rail: Install 59,000 LF with CWR. Ties: Replace or install 21,000 wood
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 65 miles
Ballast: Install 8,000 tons
Bridge work: New bridge engineering work in Packer Township, Pa.,
$5 million, possible start in 2005 pending capital budget release
Other significant MOW projects: Install remote crossover switches on mainline double track, $250,000; replace 10 crossings with concrete panels and four crossings with timber/asphalt, $400,000 (all work in Schuylkill and Luzerne counties)
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Red River Valley & Western Railroad Co.
2005 MOW budget: $2.4 million
2004 MOW budget: $4.8 million
Reason for decrease: Rail project delayed for two years; will install used jointed rail (vs. CWR) taken from a line abandoned three years ago
Rail: Replace 14 miles with 115-pound jointed rail
Ballast: Install 29,300 tons
Ties: Replace or install 6,000 wood
Grinding/surfacing: Grind 11 miles; surface 100 miles
Bridge work: Inspect system bridges
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Vermont Railway Inc.
Estimated 2005 MOW operating spending: $2.2 million;
2004 MOW operating expenditures: $1.8 million
Reasons for increase: Track reconfiguration at locomotive maintenance facility; new rail
Rail: Install 1.2 miles of 115-pound rail
Ties: Replace or install 10,000 wood
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 40 miles
Bridge work: Rehab bridge 219, $93,000, start in September; rehab bridge 233, $5,000, start in August. Ballast: Install 8,100 tons
Other significant MOW projects: Reconstruct fuel rack and sanding towers, relocate yard mainline to facilitate the towers and install crossover switches at Rutland Yard, $300,000
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Raritan Central Railway L.L.C.
2005 MOW budget: $2 million
2004 MOW budget: $2 million
Rail: Replace 3 miles with 130-pound rail
Double-track: Complete project on mainline
Ties: Replace or install 4,000 wood
Other significant MOW projects: Install 1.5 miles of tracks to handle new plastics and food-grade transloading
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Arkansas & Missouri Railroad Co.
2005 MOW budget: $1.9 million
2004 MOW budget: $1.1 million
Reason for increase: Marketing opportunities and tax credit legislation
Rail: Replace 1.5 miles with 110-pound jointed rail
Sidings: Build 1.5-mile siding
Ties: Replace or install 10,000 (plus) wood
Grinding/surfacing: Surface about 70 miles
Ballast: Install 6,000 tons
Bridge work: Redeck Arkansas River bridge in Van Buren, $476,000, started in January; redeck bridge in Schaberg, Ark., $148,000, began in April; make two bridges (Chester and Mountainburg, Ark.) 286k-compliant, $175,000, started in March
Other significant MOW projects: Construct 375-foot flood retaining wall, $280,000
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Iowa Pacific Holdings L.L.C.
(3 Southeastern U.S. Railroads)
2005 MOW budget: $1.2 million
2004 MOW budget: $250,000
Reasons for increase: Acquired Arizona Eastern Railroad from RailAmerica in December 2004 and have agreement with major customer to participate in long-term capital improvement program
Ties: Replace or install 25,000 wood
Ballast: Install 25,000 tons
Bridge work: Convert ballast deck to open deck trestles, $130,000
Other significant MOW projects: Applied for a RRIF loan with the FRA to help fund a multi-million dollar rehabilitation of the Texas New Mexico, and West Texas and Lubbock railroads
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Finger Lakes Railway Corp.
2005 MOW budget: $856,800
2004 MOW budget: $407,358
Reason for increase: Received state grant
Rail: Replace 1.4 miles with conventional rail curves
Sidings: Build 1,200-foot sidings in Geneva and Canandaigua, N.Y.
Ties: Replace or install 4,600 wood. Ballast: Install 10,280 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 23 miles
Bridge work: Fill scoured floor of arch culvert in Martasgo, N.Y., $105,000
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Twin Cities & Western Railroad Co.
2005 MOW budget: $555,150
2004 MOW budget: $535,400
Reason for increase: Higher volume of ties
Ties: Replace or install 10,000 wood
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 30 miles
Ballast: Install 8,900 tons (300 tons on Minnesota Prairie Line)
Bridge work: Rehab two bridges, $75,000
Other significant MOW projects: Relay 2 miles of rail, surface 30 miles, install 14,000 ties and replace 12 crossings on Minnesota Prairie Line between Morton and Hanley Falls, Minn., $2 million (not yet finalized)
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Modesto & Empire Traction Co.
2005 MOW budget: $200,000
2004 MOW budget: $300,000
Reason for decrease: Types of capital involved major trackwork in 2004
Rail: Replace 0.5 miles with 110- and 136-pound gauge
Ties: Replace or install 2,200 wood. Ballast: Install 1,200 tons
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Madison Railroad
2005 MOW budget: $75,000
2004 MOW budget: $60,000
Reasons for increase: Spending contingent on revenue; applied for state, federal grants
Ties: Replace or install 1,000 wood
Ballast: Install 2,000 tons
Grinding/surfacing: Surface 5 miles
Bridge work: Have applied for $1 million in grants to rehabilitate bridges in Madison and North Vernon, Ind.
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Mount Hood Railroad
2005 and 2004 MOW budget: $0
Reason: Spent $750,000 from RRIF loan on MOW projects in 2003; satisfied capital investment needs for about three years
Ties: Replace or install 100 wood
Ballast: Install 10 tons
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North Shore Railroad Co.
Ties: Replace or install 13,500 wood
Ballast: Install 8,000 tons
