New York: Amtrak Empire Corridor work on schedule

Amtrak will move the rehabilitated Spuyten Duyvil rail bridge on the Empire Corridor back in place during the week of July 30, the passenger rail company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer told reporters Friday.

In a conference call on improvements at Penn Station, Scot Naparstek said that rehabilitation of the bridge’s mechanical and electrical systems, damaged during Superstorm Sandy, was 60 percent complete. The bridge had been removed from its site and placed on a barge by the “Left Coast Lifter,” a massive crane that was also used in construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement.

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