69A36525421080FSPNY↗
Metropolitan Transportation Authority received this grant or assistance award from Federal Railroad Administration: $1.64B obligated so far for federal-state partnership for intercity passenger rail. Its latest action was on 2026-09-10.
Key facts · data as of Oct 21, 2026
- Recipient
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Awarding agency
- Federal Railroad Administration (Department of Transportation)
- Obligated to date
- $1.64B
Source: USAspending.gov prime award records (obligations: money committed, not outlays), data as of Oct 21, 2026.
Cite this page: SpendQuery, Award 69A36525421080FSPNY, data as of Oct 21, 2026, https://spendquery.com/award?id=ASST_NON_69A36525421080FSPNY_069
Metropolitan Transportation Authority: all federal awards · Department of Transportation: spending
THE PROJECT INCLUDES FINAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TO COMPREHENSIVELY REHABILITATE 19 MILES OF THE AMTRAK-OWNED HELL GATE LINE CONNECTING NEW YORK PENN STATION AND NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK. BENEFITS TO AMTRAKS INTERCITY SERVICES FROM THE PROJECT INCLUDE UPGRADED SIGNAL SYSTEMS, REHABILITATION OF FOUR BRIDGES, CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR NEW INTERLOCKINGS AND FIVE NEW POWER SUBSTATIONS, AND UPGRADES TO TWO EXISTING SUBSTATIONS, AND TRACK REHABILITATION. ADDITIONAL PROJECT COMPONENTS INCLUDE AN EXPANSION TO THE NEW ROCHELLE YARD. THE PROJECT WILL RESTORE THE HELL GATE LINE TO A STATE OF GOOD REPAIR AND ALLOW THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW METRO-NORTH RAILROAD (MNR) COMMUTER RAIL SERVICE OVER THE HELL GATE LINE CONNECTING TO PENN STATION NEW YORK. THE REHABILITATION AND REPLACEMENT OF ASSETS ON THE HELL GATE LINE WILL REVERSE DECADES-LONG UNDERINVESTMENT IN INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE. THE PROJECT WILL INSTALL A MODERN SIGNAL SYSTEM, REHABILITATE BRIDGES, INCREASE POWER, AND UPGRADE SIX MILES OF THE LINE INTO A FOUR-TRACK RAILROAD, IMPROVING OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY AS WELL AS ON-TIME PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY FOR 40,000 INTERCITY RAIL PASSENGERS THAT RELY ON THE LINE TODAY WHILE ALSO PREPARING THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR (NEC) FOR INCREASED SERVICE LEVELS AND HIGH-SPEED RAIL SERVICE.
What it is
- Program
- Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail (Assistance Listing 20.326)
- Funding law
- Infrastructure law (IIJA)
Obligations by fiscal year
SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.
Subrecipients: where the money went next
No subawards reported for this award. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; many awards have none.
Every action
2 actions since 2024-12-10. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.
| Date | Amendment | Kind | Amount | What the agency wrote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-10 | 01 | Revision | $228.45M | THE PROJECT INCLUDES FINAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TO COMPREHENSIVELY REHABILITATE 19 MILES OF THE AMTRAK-OWNED HELL GATE LINE CONNECTING NEW YORK PENN STATION AND NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK. BENEFITS TO AMTRAKS INTERCITY SERVICES FROM THE PROJECT INCLUDE… |
| 2024-12-10 | 0 | New award | $1.42B | THE PROJECT INCLUDES FINAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TO COMPREHENSIVELY REHABILITATE 19 MILES OF THE AMTRAK-OWNED HELL GATE LINE CONNECTING NEW YORK PENN STATION AND NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK. BENEFITS TO AMTRAKS INTERCITY SERVICES FROM THE PROJECT INCLUDE… |
Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-10-21). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗