{"id":262656,"date":"2026-08-10T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262656\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:08:10","slug":"rail-news-pennsylvania-advances-new-funding-program-seeks-applicants-for-freight-rail-grants-for-railroad-career-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262656\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail News &#8211; Pennsylvania advances new funding program, seeks applicants for freight-rail grants. For Railroad Career Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/news\/\" class=\"catBack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rail News Home<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"catBack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/rail_industry_trends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rail Industry Trends<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"viewRt\" style=\"float: right;\">8\/10\/2026<\/p>\n<p>Rail News: Rail Industry Trends&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>         span {<br \/>\n                min-width: 0 !important<br \/>\n            }<br \/>\n        ]]]]>]]><\/p>\n<p>        <br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PennDOT-sized.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"articleImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">Late\u00a0last week, Pennsylvania&#8217;s transportation commission adopted a\u00a0new\u00a012-year program that\u00a0calls for\u00a0providing\u00a0more than\u00a0$90 billion\u00a0for\u00a0improvements to\u00a0railroads, transit systems,\u00a0roads, bridges,\u00a0airports\u00a0and other transportation systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">The allocation in the new\u00a012-year\u00a0program\u00a0represents\u00a0an increase of more than 3% from the\u00a0previous\u00a0program that was adopted in 2025, commission officials said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">In the first four years of the new program, which begins Oct. 1, 2026,\u00a0improvements involving\u00a0public transit and\u00a0freight\u00a0rail\u00a0would\u00a0receive\u00a0$12.9 billion\u00a0and\u00a0$240 million, respectively.\u00a0State highway and bridge projects would\u00a0receive\u00a0$16.9 billion, multimodal projects would\u00a0obtain $367\u00a0million\u00a0and aviation projects would\u00a0be\u00a0allocated\u00a0$154 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">\u201cThis plan was developed through significant collaboration with Pennsylvania communities to enhance safety and\u00a0modernize our system,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/penndot#sortCriteria=%40copapwpeffectivedate%20descending\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Department of Transportation<\/a> (PennDOT) Secretary Mike Carroll.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">Meanwhile, PennDOT recently\u00a0opened\u00a0the application period for grants under the state&#8217;s Rail Transportation Assistance\u00a0and Rail Freight Assistance\u00a0programs.\u00a0Applications are due Aug. 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">Sixty-five railroads\u00a0operate\u00a0in Pennsylvania, more than any other state, PennDOT officials said. The department is committed to working with railroads and businesses to construct new rail lines and\u00a0maintain\/improve more than\u00a05,500 miles\u00a0of rail lines in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW125852916 BCX8\">\u201cPennsylvania has a robust\u00a0freight-rail network and the Commonwealth values and invests in this critical transportation mode that businesses rely on,\u201d said Carroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail News Home Rail Industry Trends 8\/10\/2026 Rail News: Rail Industry Trends&#13; span { min-width: 0 !important }&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-262656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}