Texas’s Top Projects - 37

Calaveras Site Railroad Siding and Entrance Road Project

PROJECT COST: $46,823,205

The Calaveras Lake Project is actually two projects rolled into one. Included in the project are a roadway portion and a railroad portion.

The roadway portion is approximately 2.5 mi of concrete-paved roadway, a small interchange at the U.S. 181 intersection and the new proposed entrance road. The roadway portion also includes two bridges over Calaveras Lake that are a combined .75-mi long.

The project’s railroad component includes 20,000 linear ft of new track construction, as well as a 957,000-lb. structural steel bridge to be constructed over U.S. 181. This portion also includes a bridge inside the power plant that will bypass vehicle traffic over the railroad tracks. Also included in this portion is 18,000 linear ft of under-drains and numerous storm systems and cross drains.

Key Facts

Location: San Antonio
Start/completion dates: October 2008/ May 2010
Owner: CPS Energy, San Antonio
General contractor: Austin Bridge & Road LP, Irving, Texas
Structural and civil engineers: Pape-Dawson Engineers, San Antonio; Burns & McDonald, Kansas City, Mo.
Major subcontractors: VK Knowlton Construction & Utilities Co., San Antonio; A.H. Beck Foundation Co., San Antonio; Trac-Work Inc., San Antonio