Buyer · State DOT
? How to use this page
How to use a buyer page
- Who this buyer is, then who already holds positions here and what it is tendering.
- Click Watch and every change lands in your weekly digest.
- How to sell here — the route in, thresholds, portals and contacts — opens with this market's edition.
Arkansas Department of Transportation (Railroad Coordination)
Every fact on this page is free. Exact values, dates, award detail and the procurement route open in the United States edition — one edition is free with one email. Open your free edition · Open this record in the Atlas
- Type
- State DOT — State transportation department; its Project Coordination Section's Railroad Coordination unit runs the Section 130 crossing programme and the State Rail Plan
- Market · Region
- United States · Arkansas
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
Arkansas's highway department; writes the rail plan and runs crossing-safety money, with no rail funding or ownership.
About this buyer
Read more
Writes the State Rail Plan and administers the federal Railway-Highway Crossing Program. It does not finance, own, operate or maintain rail infrastructure, and Arkansas has no dedicated state rail funding.
- Type
- State DOT — State transportation department; its Project Coordination Section's Railroad Coordination unit runs the Section 130 crossing programme and the State Rail Plan
- Where
- Arkansas · Little Rock
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
Structure
- funded by USDOT — Federal Railway-Highway Crossing Program (Section 130) formula funds a year per the State Rail Plan (active)
- Contract detail and values (1)In the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (2)
- ● 2025 Arkansas State Rail Plan, executive summary · 25 freight railroads over 2,600 miles, about 60 percent owned by three Class I railroads; Texas Eagle ridership 28,000 in 2023 and 37,000 in 2024; Section 130 and 32 projects; ARDOT does not finance, own, operate or maintain rail infrastructure (published 2025-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● 2025 Arkansas State Rail Plan (full plan, August 2025) · Full plan: no dedicated state freight or passenger rail funding programme; Section 130 about $4 million a year; Little Rock Port Authority CRISI project; DeQueen and Eastern CRISI 2023; 91 LRITP rail projects of $1.72 billion with no funding; no Corridor ID applications from Arkansas (published 2025-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
Withheld in the free surface
- Procurement structure
- Award history (1)
- Entry path
- Portals (4)
- Published contacts (2)
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example
16 sources · all primary
- ● ARDOT Project Coordination (Railroad Coordination Section) · ARDOT page: the Railroad Coordination Section administers the Railway-Highway Crossing Program (Section 130) and coordinates highway work inside railroad right of way; lists the 2015 State Rail Plan and the 2020 Arkansas High Speed Passenger Rail Study (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● ARDOT news releases · ARDOT news index with a category for railroad crossing repair notices; the Watchtower press index for the state DOT (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● ARDOT Apparent Bid Results · ARDOT construction letting page: apparent bid results for each letting; procurement page for state highway and grade-separation contracts (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● ARDOT Currently Advertised Projects · ARDOT page of projects advertised for the next lettings; read on 8 October 2026 and no railroad overpass or rail job was listed (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● ARDOT Awards Lists · Index of ARDOT letting awards lists, one PDF per letting, 2013 to September 2026 (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● ARDOT contracts awarded, letting of 21 September 2022 (revised) · Awards list: job 100942, Hwy. 351 RR Overpass (Airport Rd.) (Jonesboro), Craighead County, Manhattan Road & Bridge Co. of Tulsa, $18,690,653.90 (published 2022-10-21 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● ARDOT contracts awarded, letting of 23 September 2026 (revised) · Awards list dated 1 October 2026: job 070458, UPRR Grade Separation (east of Lafayette Co. line), Route 82, Columbia County, District 7, Mobley Contractors, Inc., $27,033,828.20 (published 2026-10-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● 2025 Arkansas State Rail Plan, executive summary · 25 freight railroads over 2,600 miles, about 60 percent owned by three Class I railroads; Texas Eagle ridership 28,000 in 2023 and 37,000 in 2024; Section 130 and 32 projects; ARDOT does not finance, own, operate or maintain rail infrastructure (published 2025-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● 2025 Arkansas State Rail Plan (full plan, August 2025) · Full plan: no dedicated state freight or passenger rail funding programme; Section 130 about $4 million a year; Little Rock Port Authority CRISI project; DeQueen and Eastern CRISI 2023; 91 LRITP rail projects of $1.72 billion with no funding; no Corridor ID applications from Arkansas (published 2025-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: FHWA obligation 693JJ22230000Y236AR9227071 (ARDOT Hwy 351 RR overpass) · Federal record: Arkansas Department of Transportation, Hwy 351 RR Overpass (Airport Rd) (Jonesboro), new railroad overpass including a shared use path, period to 31 December 2028; one of several FHWA obligation lines for the project, not a contract value (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: FRA CRISI 69A36522403230CRSLA (Louisiana and North West) · Federal record: Louisiana and North West Railroad Company, federal $3,420,224, 2,100-foot interchange siding with the Union Pacific; place of performance Arkansas; below the floor (published 2022-03-03 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: FRA Railroad Crossing Elimination 69A36525420780RCEAR (Little Rock) · Federal record: City of Little Rock, federal $720,000, Fourche Dam Pike railroad crossing planning study; below the floor (published 2025-05-20 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: FRA-administered BUILD grant 69A36520401680TIIAR (Fort Smith) · Federal record: City of Fort Smith, federal $8,527,893, Securing Multimodal Freight Corridors in the Ozarks, period 1 August 2020 to 31 December 2024; ended and before the 2022 window (published 2020-08-04 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: FRA CRISI 69A36521402650CRSAR (Jonesboro Industrial Lead) · Federal record: City of Jonesboro, federal $2,254,511.63, Jonesboro Industrial Lead Project, started 1 March 2021; below the floor (published 2021-03-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: FHWA obligation 693JJ22640000Y616AR0014036 (ARDOT highway-rail grade separation) · Federal record under FHWA 20.205 highway funds for an ARDOT railroad grade separation; cited for the rule that highway-funded overpasses are not carried (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending: MARAD award 693JF72444071 (Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority) · Federal record: $15,096,000 Maritime Administration award for a slackwater harbor at Van Buren; port project, not rail (published 2026-03 · checked 2026-10-08)
Browse: the Atlas · United States · players · events
Compiled by Watchtower to editorial standards the Managing Partner sets and enforces. Public record only — every datum carries its source.