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Merrimac Bridge Phase III span replacement
Merrimac Bridge Phase III - replacing 13 spans and 1,400 feet of deck on the state-owned Reedsburg Subdivision operated by Wisconsin & Southern
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- Buyer
- Wisconsin Department of Transportation
- Where
- Wisconsin
- Segments
- Track, Civil works
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
- Status
- In execution — Michels Construction began Phase III in winter 2023; WisDOT's timeline schedules timber replacement, rails and walkway for 2025.
- Value band
- $5–25m
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Infra grant awarded August 2020 · Grant agreement executed January 2022 · Let July 2022 · Lowest bidder November 2022 · Construction start 2023
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Michels Construction began Phase III in winter 2023; WisDOT's timeline schedules timber replacement, rails and walkway for 2025. The page does not state a completion date. Phase III was let in July 2022 and Michels was lowest bidder in November 2022. The bridge will carry 286,000-pound railcars at 25 miles per hour on completion.
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- ● WisDOT · Merrimac Bridge Rehabilitation Project page: Reedsburg Subdivision owned by WisDOT and the Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission and operated by Wisconsin & Southern Railroad under an operating agreement with the Commission; Phase III INFRA grant $6,750,000; lowest bidder Michels Construction $21,695,000 in November 2022; Phase III total cost $22,169,000; funding split; timeline to 2025. Read 7 October 2026. (checked 2026-10-07)
- ● WisDOT · FRPP grant and FRIIP loan projects, 1985 to present (four-page table by programme year, 2015 to 2025: project ID, organisation, location, purpose, FRIIP loan, FRPP grant, federal grant, local funds, project total). Source of the Wisconsin & Southern, Port of Milwaukee and Janesville rows. (checked 2026-10-07)
- ● USAspending.gov (FRA award record) · INFRA award 69A36522403220INFWI to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for Merrimac Bridge Phase III: $6,750,000 federal, $6,750,000 non-federal, $13,500,000 total funding on the federal record; signed 25 January 2022; period 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2026. (published 2022-02-07 · checked 2026-10-08)
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