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Volume 42 - Issue 46 - November 16, 2023

(Published in the Kansas Register November 16, 2023.)

Cimarron Valley Railroad

Notice of Letting

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) was awarded an $11 million Federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program (CRISI) grant in May 2022. In addition to this federal grant, KDOT has partnered financially with the Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR), resulting in a project budget of $14,991,971.

The project, Southwest Kansas Infrastructure Upgrade Project, will encompass the following project components on CVR infrastructure in southwest Kansas:

  • Replacing 50,904 crossties:
    • 700 crossties per mile (Dodge City, Kansas to Satanta, Kansas – 62 miles).
    • 350 crossties per mile (Satanta, Kansas to Hugoton, Kansas – 23 miles).
  • Performing 3,577 flash butt welds to rail (east of Ensign, Kansas to Sublette, Kansas – 13.2 miles).
  • Relaying 3.7 miles of rail in curves (spread throughout seven curves from Satanta, Kansas to just west of Hugoton, Kansas).
  • Applying new ballast to 67 miles of track (Dodge City, Kansas to Moscow, Kansas).
  • Surfacing 85 miles of track (Dodge City, Kansas to Hugoton, Kansas).

The project has been awarded to Vision Industrial Services, LLC as the lowest responsible bidder.

Anthony Cox
SVP Engineering
Jaguar Transport Holdings

Doc. No. 051652

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