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Rio Metro Regional Transit District

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Type
Transit authority — Regional transit district for the Albuquerque area, formed in 2005; NMDOT's managing agency for the Rail Runner Express. Staffed through the Mid-Region Council of Governments, which posts its bids.
Market · Region
United States · New Mexico
Open tenders
0
Technology areas
Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Rolling-stock hardware

Manages the Rail Runner for NMDOT and is procuring a new maintenance facility in Albuquerque.

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Sets Rail Runner schedules and fares, dispatches trains and maintains NMDOT's railroad, contracting Herzog Transit Services for operations and maintenance. The fleet is nine MP36PH-3C locomotives, nine cab cars and 13 coaches. Its Budget and Capital Plan, adopted on 15 May 2026, centres on a new operations and maintenance facility in Albuquerque, now in design-build qualifications, with completed signalling and siding work and a list of unfunded sidings, rolling stock and bridge projects behind it. It also runs bus and dial-a-ride services and pays the Rail Runner's state infrastructure bank loan for positive train control.

Type
Transit authority — Regional transit district for the Albuquerque area, formed in 2005; NMDOT's managing agency for the Rail Runner Express. Staffed through the Mid-Region Council of Governments, which posts its bids.
Where
New Mexico · Albuquerque
Programmes
FRA Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements
Technology areas
Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Rolling-stock hardware

Structure

  • operates for NMDOT — Managing agency for Rail Runner and NMDOT's railroad operations and maintenance; sets schedules and fares and dispatches trains (active)
  • funded by FTA — Grant NM-2026-037, FY2025 BUILD grant for the Rail Runner operations and maintenance facility (22 September 2026 to 30 September 2033) (active)
  • funded by FTA — Grant NM-2026-038, formula funds for construction of the first phase of the operations and maintenance facility (24 September 2026 to 30 September 2033) (active)
  • funded by FTA — Grant NM-2026-019, centralised traffic control and positive train control near downtown Albuquerque (14 July 2026 to 1 October 2027) (active)
  • funded by FTA — Grants NM-2025-020 (Section 5337 state of good repair) and NM-2025-021 (Section 5307), both signed 25 September 2025, for Rail Runner equipment and track maintenance (active)
  • funded by FTA — Grant NM-2019-013, CRISI railroad safety technology grant for Rail Runner positive train control (12 April 2019 to 31 March 2020) (ended)

Who holds what here

  • awarded Herzog — Rail Runner operations and maintenance, including track, signal and equipment maintenance (Herzog Transit Services) (active)
Sources for these relationships (8)
  • ● New Mexico State Rail Plan, February 2026 · NMDOT State Rail Plan prepared by Huitt-Zollars; read page by page: ownership and operation of Rail Runner (pp. 30-40), funding programmes (pp. 91-96), short-range investment programme (pp. 115-119), long-range programme (p. 127-128) (published 2026-02-13 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● USAspending.gov - FTA grant NM-2025-021, Rio Metro Regional Transit District · Federal award record: $25,817,101, Federal Transit Formula Grants (Section 5307 large urban), signed 25 September 2025, period to 1 July 2027; maintenance of equipment and way for the Rail Runner (published 2025-09-25 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● USAspending.gov - FTA award NM-2026-037, Rio Metro Regional Transit District · Federal award record: $22,477,133, National Infrastructure Investments (FY2025 BUILD grant), signed 22 September 2026, period to 30 September 2033; construction of the Rail Runner operations and maintenance facility (maintenance shop for four locomotives or cars, service station, new and relocated track) (published 2026-09-22 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● USAspending.gov - FTA grant NM-2026-019, Rio Metro Regional Transit District · Federal award record: $8,290,500, Federal Transit Formula Grants, signed 14 July 2026, period to 1 October 2027; centralised traffic control and positive train control on a 4.7-mile double-track segment near downtown Albuquerque (control points Hahn, Abajo, Marquette, Maine) (published 2026-07-14 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● USAspending.gov - FTA grant NM-2026-038, Rio Metro Regional Transit District · Federal award record: $17,249,999, Federal Transit Formula Grants, signed 24 September 2026, period to 30 September 2033; first phase of the Rail Runner operations and maintenance facility (two-track shop, crane, service station, yard track, drainage) (published 2026-09-24 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● USAspending.gov - award NM-2019-013, Rio Metro Regional Transit District · Federal award record: $29,359,208, Railroad Safety Technology Grants (CRISI), signed 12 April 2019, period ended 31 March 2020, awarding sub-agency shown as the Federal Transit Administration; Rio Metro NMRX positive train control implementation project (published 2019-04-12 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● USAspending.gov - FTA grant NM-2025-020, Rio Metro Regional Transit District · Federal award record: $27,195,676, State of Good Repair Grants Program, signed 25 September 2025, period to 1 July 2028; maintenance of equipment and way for the Rail Runner (9 locomotives, 9 cab cars, 13 coach cars, about 96.5 miles of right-of-way) (published 2025-09-25 · checked 2026-10-08)
  • ● Rio Metro Regional Transit District Budget and Capital Plan FY2027-FY2031 · Adopted 15 May 2026; Rail Runner budget (Tables 1-1, 1-2), capital maintenance programme, funded and unfunded capital projects (Tables 2-2, 2-3), partner pass-through projects (Table 2-4) (published 2026-05-15 · checked 2026-10-08)

Tenders

TenderStatusValue bandNext key date
Rail Runner maintenance facility design-buildBids closed$25–100m
Rail Runner Alameda sidingIn execution$5–25m
Downtown Albuquerque centralised traffic controlIn execution$5–25m
Sidings and platforms for reliabilityPlanned$25–100m
Sidings and platforms for hourly servicePlanned$25–100m
Belen CP Ross extensionPlanned$5–25m
Madrid to Lamy positive train controlPlanned$5–25m
Los Lunas sidingPlanned$5–25m
Rail Runner maintenance facility phase 2Planned$5–25m
Two additional Rail Runner locomotivesPlanned$5–25m

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