The proposed scranton to new york penn station corridor would connect scranton, PA, and new york, NY, with intermediate stops at stroudsburg and MT

This Cooperative Agreement award of $500,000.00 from the Federal Railroad Administration's Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail program (CFDA 20.326) supports the development of a Service Development Plan for the proposed Scranton to New York Penn Station rail corridor. Through this award, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the awardee, will complete critical planning tasks to advance the proposed corridor, including developing a project performance plan, documenting existing planning and development materials, drafting a statement of work, and creating an approved project schedule and budget. The outcome of this planning effort will be a comprehensive project description that can serve as the basis for subsequent steps in the Corridor Identification and Development (CID) process. This corridor aims to provide new intercity passenger rail service with three daily round trips between Scranton, PA, and New York, NY, with intermediate stops in eastern Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey.

Pocono, PA, and blairstown, dover, montclair, morristown, and newark, NJ. The proposed corridor would provide new service (three daily round trips) on a mostly existing alignment, plus abandoned track to be rebuilt. The entirety of the alignment for this corridor is under public ownership. Using the service development plan (SDP) SOW framework, the corridor sponsor will develop a project performance plan (task 1.1), existing planning and development materials (task 2.1), statement of work (task 2.2), approved project schedule (task 2.3), approved project budget (task 2.4). The outcome of this project will be the project description for CID step 2, to perform the necessary work to complete an SDP. The proposed corridor will serve scranton, new york s penn station, as well as communities in eastern pennsylvania and northern new jersey in between.