49 U.S.C. § 24909 — Authorization of appropriations

to improve the main line track between the Northeast Corridor main line and Atlantic City, New Jersey, to ensure that the track, consistent with a plan New Jersey developed in consultation with Amtrak to provide rail passenger transportation between the Northeast Corridor main line and Atlantic City, New Jersey, would be of sufficient quality to allow safe rail passenger transportation at a minimum of 79 miles an hour not later than September 30, 1985; and

to promote rail passenger use of the track.

develop Union Station in the District of Columbia;

install 189 track-miles, and renew 133 track-miles, of concrete ties with continuously welded rail between the District of Columbia and New York, New York;

install reverse signaling between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on numbers 2 and 3 track;

restore ditch drainage in concrete tie locations between the District of Columbia and New York, New York;

undercut 83 track-miles between the District of Columbia and New York, New York;

rehabilitate bridges between the District of Columbia and New York, New York (including Hi line);

develop a maintenance of way equipment repair facility between the District of Columbia and New York, New York, and build maintenance of way bases at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sunnyside, New York, and Cedar Hill, Connecticut;

stabilize the roadbed between the District of Columbia and New York, New York;

automate the Bush River Drawbridge at milepost 72.14;

improve the New York Service Facility to develop rolling stock repair capability;

install a rail car washer facility at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

restore storage tracks and buildings at the Washington Service Facility;

install centralized traffic control from Landlith, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

improve track, including high speed surfacing, ballast cleaning, and associated equipment repair and material distribution;

rehabilitate interlockings between the District of Columbia and New York, New York;

paint the Connecticut River, Groton, and Pelham Bay bridges;

provide additional catenary renewal and power supply upgrading between the District of Columbia and New York, New York;

rehabilitate structural, electrical, and mechanical systems at the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

install evacuation and fire protection facilities in tunnels in New York, New York;

improve the communication and signal systems between Wilmington, Delaware, and Boston, Massachusetts, on the Northeast Corridor main line, and between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the Harrisburg Line;

improve the electric traction systems between Wilmington, Delaware, and Newark, New Jersey;

install baggage rack restraints, seat back guards, and seat lock devices on 348 passenger cars operating in the Northeast Corridor;

install 44 event recorders and 10 electronic warning devices on locomotives operating within the Northeast Corridor; and

acquire cab signal test boxes and install 9 wayside loop code transmitters for use within the Northeast Corridor.