The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority has awarded Long Bridge Rail Partners the design-build construction partner contract for the Long Bridge Project-South Package, according to a Jan. 16 news release.
Long Bridge Rail Partners is a joint venture made up of Pittsburgh-based Trumbull, S&B Construction and Fay, as well as York, Pennsylvania-headquartered Wagman Heavy Civil. The lead designer on the South Package is New York City-based engineering firm STV.
The entire $2.3 billion project will enable separation of passenger and freight rail traffic on the 1.8-mile railroad corridor between Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Virginia, and relieve one of the largest rail traffic bottlenecks on the East Coast. It represents the largest of the commonwealth’s Transforming Rail in Virginia efforts, and is a key milestone to its second wave of Virginia Railway Express expansion.
VPRA split the main Long Bridge project work into north and south packages. It awarded the North Package to a Skanska/Flatiron joint venture in December 2023. The agency also picked a Flatiron and Herzog team to build the Franconia-Springfield Bypass.
“The selection of Long Bridge Rail Partners completes the team that will build the largest of our Transforming Rail in Virginia projects, which will significantly change the way Virginians travel,” said DJ Stadtler, executive director of VPRA, in the release.
South Package work entails construction of a new two-track railroad bridge and an adjacent bicycle-pedestrian bridge over the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Potomac River, according to a news release from Wagman. The team will also build new retaining walls and embankments for the Parkway, as well as a new fender system within the Potomac River Navigational Channel.
The Long Bridge Rail Partners team will take the project through the final design phase and incorporate “innovative alternative technical concepts,” per VPRA’s release. Heavy construction on the South Package is expected to begin in the fall of 2026 and is slated to be substantially complete in 2030.
