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Nebraska Department of Transportation, Rail Division
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- Type
- State DOT — State DOT; its Rail Division handles railroad agreements for state and some local projects, watches line abandonments, keeps the crossing inventory and acts as liaison to the state's railroads.
- Market · Region
- United States · Nebraska
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control
State rail office that oversees crossings and railroad agreements and applies for FRA crossing-elimination planning grants.
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Runs crossing safety and rail agreements for the state, keeps the crossing inventory, and applies for FRA crossing grants. It buys no passenger rail service: Amtrak's Zephyr is the only intercity train and no state-supported corridor exists.
- Type
- State DOT — State DOT; its Rail Division handles railroad agreements for state and some local projects, watches line abandonments, keeps the crossing inventory and acts as liaison to the state's railroads.
- Where
- Nebraska · Lincoln
- Programmes
- FRA Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements, IIJA / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control
Structure
- funded by FRA — Railroad Crossing Elimination planning grant for the Grand Island rail crossing study (signed 1 December 2025) (active)
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Sources for these relationships (1)
- ● USAspending award 69A36526421850RCENE · FRA Railroad Crossing Elimination planning grant to NDOT for the Grand Island rail crossing study; federal $600,000 with non-federal $150,000; signed 1 December 2025 (published 2025-12-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
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- Procurement structure
- Published contacts (3)
- Award history (2)
- Entry path
- Portals (3)
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the United States edition · See a fully open example
8 sources · 7 primary
- ● NDOT Rail Division page · NDOT's Rail Division page: mission, 12 freight operators, 3,375 miles of freight track, 3,002 public crossings, 702 with safety devices, and links to older Nebraska rail studies (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● NDOT Rail Funding Information page · NDOT's page on the two crossing-safety funding sources: the Grade Crossing Protection Fund ($30,000 a month from the Highway Trust Fund, state share 95 percent) and the federal Section 130 programme (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● NDOT Omaha to Lincoln Rail Crossing Safety Improvement Plan site · NDOT's study site: 142 crossings over 64.5 miles of BNSF corridor, FRA-funded, schedule from March 2026 to a final plan in early summer 2027 (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● NDOT Highway-Rail Grade Crossing State Action Plan page · NDOT's page for the state grade crossing action plan; timeline shown is October 2021 to January 2022 and the page has not been updated (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● NDOT Procurement page · NDOT's procurement unit page with links to current bids and RFPs; no rail solicitation was listed in the summary text read (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending award 69A36526421850RCENE · FRA Railroad Crossing Elimination planning grant to NDOT for the Grand Island rail crossing study; federal $600,000 with non-federal $150,000; signed 1 December 2025 (published 2025-12-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ US Senate office release on Nebraska Railroad Crossing Elimination awards (15 January 2025) · Release listing three FRA Railroad Crossing Elimination awards totalling about $67.9m: 33rd/Cornhusker Viaduct in Lincoln $66,706,880, and $600,000 each for the Grand Island and Omaha to Lincoln studies. Secondary: railroads.dot.gov returns 403 (published 2025-01-15 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● NDOT News and Media · NDOT's newsroom index, registered for the Watchtower (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
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