Category: Industry News

Colorado Midland & Pacific Railway Company’s (CMP) Commercial Agreement on the Tennessee Pass Line

December 31, 2020

Colorado Midland & Pacific Railway Company (CMP) has entered into a commercial agreement with Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for the majority of the Tennessee Pass rail line in Colorado owned by UP. CMP has filed for common-carrier authority to operate the Tennessee Pass Line with the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, the federal agency that regulates… Read more

Denton County Transportation Authority Announces a New A-Train Operations and Maintenance Contractor

November 02, 2020

On October 22, 2020 DCTA board approved the assignment of the contract for the management of its A-Train operations and maintenance to RGPC. RGPC will provide operations and maintenance of tracks, signaling, dispatching, and communications. RGPC has retained Stadler U.S. Inc. to maintain the rolling stock. DCTA’s A-train is a 21-mile commuter line linking Denton… Read more

Uinta Basin Railway Project to Advance

September 09, 2020

Drexel Hamilton Infrastructure Partners, LP (DHIP) and the state of Utah’s Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (Coalition) today executed an agreement to advance the Uinta Basin Railway, which will serve the mineral, agricultural, and construction industries of northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin. Under the agreement, DHIP will purchase the Coalition’s intellectual property funded by Utah’s Community Impact… Read more

Hemphill Heading Uinta Basin Railway Project

September 19, 2019

Rio Grande Pacific Corp. has named rail industry veteran Mark Hemphill to lead development and construction of the Uinta Basin Railway poject, a $1.5 billion new build that, when completed in late 2022 or early 2023, will serve northeastern Utah’s energy, mineral and agriculture industries.  The new railroad is being built through a DBFOM (design-build-finance-operate-maintain… Read more

Private partner to finance, build Uinta Basin Railway

May 05, 2019

The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition’s (SCIC) board voted to select Drexel Hamilton Infrastructure Partners LP for a public-private partnership to finance, develop and construct the proposed Uinta Basin Railway in Utah. The Uinta Basin Railway is a new freight-rail line proposed by SCIC to connect the Uinta Basin to the national rail network and make it possible to economically transport… Read more

Video: Rio Grande Pacific and Dell EMC modernize rail traffic

January 22, 2018

Rio Grande Pacific Corporation and Dell EMC work together to keep trains running across North America. Watch the video to learn more about our partnership.

Short-line tax credit bill reintroduced in Congress

February 01, 2017

Feb. 1, 2017 -A bill that would make permanent the short-line track maintenance tax credit known as 45G was introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) announced yesterday. The Building Rail Access for Customers and the Economy (BRACE) Act (H.R. 721) was introduced by… Read more