{"id":97265,"date":"2026-01-26T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:35:11","slug":"pennsylvania-commits-53m-to-rail-freight-improvements-with-8-projects-in-southwestern-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97265\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania commits $53M to rail freight improvements with 8 projects in southwestern Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/15c7cf2204cf4a7f65b41238c6c0bb28.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that it will invest close to $53 million in 30 rail freight improvement projects to enhance freight mobility across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PennDOT said the funding will create and sustain about 450 jobs across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investments are funded through the Rail Transportation Assistance Program (RTAP) and the Rail Freight Assistance Program (RFAP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/21\/penndot-rail-freight-yard-funding.html?ana=wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that it will invest close to $53 million in 30 rail freight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47726,3431,28,30,29,47725,47727],"class_list":["post-97265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-freight-mobility","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-rail-freight","tag-rail-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97265","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=97265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}