Virginia

The Virginia Railway Express and the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 1 to celebrate the completion of a $27.5 million improvement project at the Quantico train station. The project is designed to improve safety, service, and rail capacity on VPRA’s Amtrak Virginia state-supported service and VRE’s Fredericksburg Line. The project includes the construction of a pedestrian bridge, which replaces an at-grade crossing, a center platform, and an extension of an existing platform. Amtrak also serves the station, which now has three boardable platform edges. The rehabilitation of the 1953 station house includes fresh paint, modern