Tuttle Construction Services

R.D. Jones & Tuttle Form Joint Venture for the New Vine Street Rail Separation Project

Tuttle Construction, Inc. of Lima and R. D. Jones of Harrod, Ohio have formed a Joint Venture to provide general construction and sitework services on the new Vine Street Rail Separation project in Lima. The railroad grade underpass in the city of Lima’s south side will be located on Vine St. between Main St. and Central Ave. The new grade separation will prevent trains from blocking access to the city’s south side, which currently occurs at least twice a day for 20 minutes. The railroad underpass will be a three-lane roadway section, offering enough clearance for safe, continued traffic. It will provide a safer multiple-rail crossing for motorists and pedestrians, eliminate congestion and delay, and reduce motorist traffic bypassing the affected crossings by using residential streets. The underpass will include features such as renderings of locomotives built in Lima, attractive lighting, fencing and landscaping.

This is the first RD Jones/Tuttle Joint Venture project and the team will be working with many different entities including The City of Lima, Norfolk Southern Railroad, CSX Railroad, URS, Jacobs Engineering, Poggemeyer Design Group, ODOT, and American Structurepoint. Tuttle Senior Project Manager, Rob Brown stated, “The Tuttle and R.D. Jones team is very excited to be involved in this local project, which is partially funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and we are ready to hit the ground running.”

Construction of the new project is scheduled to start the beginning of May 2010 and is expected to be completed by February 2012.