Okay for those who aren't aware of how this program works, here is a breakdown of what's being handed out and a very brief summary of the programs.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 creates two very broad categories for train development.

• The Federal-State Partnership Grant Program, AKA the "Fed-State National" (The actual building of new stuff)
• The Federal Corridor Identification and Development Program, AKA the "Corridor ID" (The looking at maybe building stuff)

The Fed-State National is getting the most money because obviously it's going to be building new things and repairing old things. The Corridor ID won't be building anything, per se, but will be helping the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and "others" to identify locations that could join the current network of passenger rail. The Corridor ID is only handing out $500,000 per selection so I won't be giving amounts there.

Fed-State National

• Alaska — ARRC Milepost 190.5 Bridge Replacement Project (Awarded $8,200,558)/~$10.3M(2026)
• California — California Inaugural High-Speed Rail Service Project (Awarded $3,073,600,000)/~$33B(2029)
• Illinois — Chicago Union Station Mail Platform Reactivation Project (Awarded $49,600,000)/~$62M(TBD)
• Illinois — Chicago Union Station Platform Capacity Expansion & Train-shed Ventilation Improvements Project (Awarded $44,000,000)/~$55M(TBD)
• Maine — Downeaster Corridor Track Improvement Project (Awarded $27,492,000)/~$34.3M(2025)
• Montana — Malta, MT, Corridor Operational Enhancement Project (Awarded $14,900,000)/~$18.6M(2026)
• Nevada — Brightline West High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail System Project (Awarded $3,000,000,000)/~$10.4B+(2028)
• North Carolina — Raleigh to Richmond (R2R) Innovating Rail Program Phase IA and II (Awarded $1,095,576,000)/~$1.4B(2033)
• Pennsylvania — Pennsylvanian Rail Modernization Project (Awarded $143,629,028)/~$180M(2030)
• Virginia — Transforming Rail in Virginia Phase 2 Project (Awarded $729,000,000)/~$2.6B(2029)

Total award: $8,185,997,586

Do note that for pretty much all of these projects, the awarded amount is NOT the total cost of the project. After each awarded amount, I have put / and then the current estimate for completion of the project. As example, the California high speed rail is currently estimated to cost $33 Billion. The year of TBD in parenthesis is the latest year the project is expected to be completed. The Nevada high speed rail project has a + on it's cost because that $10.4 Billion is an initial estimate that was put into the program before the close date, the cost has increased since then.

The Corridor ID program can be divided into four sub-programs.

• Purpose a new high-speed rail - brand new, solely dedicated to this purpose.
• Purpose a new conventional rail - brand new to passengers, may share with freight
• Use an existing route with upgrades/extensions - already serves passengers, shares with freight, some new rail
• Use existing route - simple improvements to frequency, trip times, stations, or other simple characteristics

Remember that each of these is awarded $500,000 to do detail study in how to implement the program they've been slotted into:

New high-speed rail

• Amtrak - Texas High-Speed Rail Corridor
• NV DOT - Brightline "West" High-Speed Corridor
• CHSRA - California High-Speed Rail Phase 1 Corridor
• WA DOT - Cascadia High-Speed Ground Transportation
• NC DOT - Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, Corridor
• North Central Texas Council of Government - Fort Worth to Houston High-Speed Rail Corridor
• Antelope VTA - High Desert Intercity High-Speed Rail Corridor

New conventional rail

• NC DOT - Asheville to Salisbury, North Carolina, Corridor
• GA DOT - Atlanta to Savannah Corridor
• City of Chattanooga, TN - Atlanta-Chattanooga-Nashville-Memphis Corridor
• LA DOT - Baton Rouge-New Orleans Corridor
• MA DOT - Boston and Albany Corridor
• CA DOT - Central Coast Corridor
• NC DOT - Charlotte to Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Corridor
• IL DOT - Chicago to Quad Cities Service Extension Program
• City of Fort Wayne, IN - Chicago, Fort Wayne, Columbus, and Pittsburgh
• OH Rail Dev Commission - Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati (3C&D) Corridor
• OH Rail Dev Commission - Cleveland-Toledo-Detroit Corridor
• CA DOT - Coachella Valley Rail Corridor
• Front Range Passenger Rail District - Colorado Front Range Corridor
• VA DOT - Commonwealth Corridor
• DE Transit Co. - Diamond State Line
• Eau Claire County, MN - Eau Claire-Twin Cities Corridor
• NC DOT - Fayetteville to Raleigh, North Carolina, Corridor
• Southern Rail Commission - Gulf Coast Passenger Rail Service
• TX DOT - Houston to San Antonio Corridor
• Southern Rail Commission - I-20 Corridor Intercity Passenger Rail Service

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