Completed Projects

The North-End Project Area begins where cargo trains emerge from the Mid-Corridor Trench at the Union Pacific J-Yard and Santa Fe Avenue in the City of Los Angeles near the border of City of Vernon, and continues eastward toward the transcontinental rail hubs (BNSF Hobart and UP East LA).

The centerpiece of the Alameda Corridor is the Mid-Corridor Trench, which is 10 miles long, 33 feet deep and 51 feet wide.  Traveling north from the Ports, cargo-laden trains descend into the trench north of State Route 91 in Compton and emerge at 25^th Street near the border of Vernon and Los Angeles.

The South-End Project Area stretches approximately seven miles from the ports to the SR-91 freeway crossing in Compton, where the Alameda Corridor descends into the 10-mile-long mid-corridor trench.

The Dolores Yard Connecting Track replaces the existing connection from the south end of UPRR Dolores Yard to the ACTA mainlines near Watson Crossing (adjacent to Lomita Boulevard). Eighty percent of all Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) trains are switched at Dolores Yard to serve on-dock rail facilities at the Ports. Previously, trains traveling between the Ports and Dolores Yard could not directly access the ACTA mainlines. Instead, they took a burdensome route from Dolores along the former SP San Pedro Branch, crossing the ACTA mainlines over diamonds, turning east across Alameda Street at-grade, crossing the ACTA mainlines again over diamonds, and finally joining the ACTA mainlines on the Long Beach Lead.