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Tri-Rail Double Corridor

Tri County Rail Seg

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

This job was awarded by Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority to Tri-County Rail Constructors which was a joint venture of Granite Construction, Washington Group International and Herzog Contracting Corp for reconstruction of a commuter rail line in south Florida. Scope of work included upgrading from single lane track to double track on an existing commuter rail line for a total of 46 miles from Palm Beach County, through Broward County and into Dade County along the southeastern Florida coast.

Work included a total of 26 bridges, new, replacements and rehabilitations; build new stations in Boca Raton at Congress Avenue and Glades Road and remodel nine other stations; and 72 road crossings and signals.

Work Details:

  • 1 million cubic yards excavation and fill
  • 350,000 tons railroad stone ballast
  • 42 major railroad switches
  • 13 miles siding track removed and relocated
  • 46.6 miles of rail line
  • 26 bridges (12 new, 6 replace, 8 rehabilitation)
  • 10 stations (1 new, 9 modifications)
  • 72 road crossings and signals.

My responsibilities at this joint venture included supervising work crews. Erected the trirail train stations from ground preparations, footings, retaining walls, to the actual erection of the precast panels.

What made the erection somewhat challenging was that there were 26 precast pieces per tower and no two were alike. There are two towers per station and we completed six stations.

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