December 18, 2025
From Demolition to Renewal: East River Tunnel Rehab Continues to Progress
The project remains on schedule for train service to resume in the fully rehabilitated Line 2 tunnel in July 2026.
We achieved back-to-back all-time records in ridership and revenue all while making historic levels of investments to upgrade America’s trains, bridges, tunnels, tracks, signals and electric systems- bolstering America’s growing rail supply chain.
December 18, 2025
The project remains on schedule for train service to resume in the fully rehabilitated Line 2 tunnel in July 2026.
October 15, 2025
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September 16, 2025
The project remains on schedule for train service to resume in the fully rehabilitated Line 2 tunnel in July 2026.
August 27, 2025
Completely rehabilitating a 115-year-old tunnel is a massive undertaking. During the decommissioning phase earlier this summer, we removed approximately 24,000…
August 21, 2025
With “America250” fast approaching – a celebration of 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence – this…
August 13, 2025
August brought significant momentum to the East River Tunnel Rehab project with the start of major bench wall demolition. Originally…
July 29, 2025
Since our last update earlier this month, the project team has continued to remove ballast from the tunnel and conduct…
July 24, 2025
This week, we shared a look at the first new Amtrak Airo trainset to ship from Siemens' Sacramento facility to…
July 17, 2025
Since the start of the long-term outage on May 23, the East River Tunnel Rehab Project has been steadily advancing…
July 11, 2025
Work recently wrapped up to decommission existing tunnel systems (i.e. power and signaling) and install temporary systems (i.e. power, lighting,…
June 27, 2025
This week marks one month since the long-term outage began for the East River Tunnel Rehab Project. The project is…
June 17, 2025
Amtrak Acting Senior Vice President of Capital Delivery Jim Short recently visited the East River Tunnel Rehab Project site for…
June 10, 2025
“Decommission” is now the word of the week. Before demolishing the existing tunnel systems in the 1st tunnel (Line 2)…
June 6, 2025
On Thursday, May 29, Amtrak joined Baltimore City Councilman John T. Bullock, community members from the Greater Rosemont and Midtown…
June 3, 2025
On Monday, the project team successfully transitioned work into Line 2, right on schedule.
May 27, 2025
Over the weekend, Amtrak crews kicked off the first long-term track outage in support of the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation…