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Timeline
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| 2000 - Comstock wins the $6.5 million subcontract to install the signal system on St. Louis' 17-mile MetroLink light rail extension. |
St. Louis' MetroLink light rail system
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| 2000 - Comstock wins the $10.8 million contact award for New York City Transit Authority's 72nd Street Subway Station. The project requires electrical renovation and signal modification as well as power, lighting, fire/life safety, signal relocation and operating upgrades. |
72nd Street Station
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| 2000 - Comstock and RailWorks Track Services win the $100 million contract to perform the electrical and track work portion of the Hiawatha Light Rail Line in Minneapolis, Minn. The electrical portion includes site improvements, the traction power, centenary, and signal systems and grade crossing protection. |
Construction under way on Minneapolis' Hiawatha Light Rail System |
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2000 - Comstock wins the $89 million contract for White Plains-Phase II, a signal system rehabilitation project on New York City Transit's line in White Plains, New York. Comstock will install a modern, fixed-block signal system, which will upgrade signal safety standards and improve operational reliability.
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White Plains II Project Management Team
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| June 2001 - Comstock begins work on the five-year, $72 million AirTrain project in Queens, New York, to rebuild and modernize Jamaica station and construct the AirTrain Terminal. Comstock is to install all the lighting, public address, closed-circuit television, electrical service and distribution equipment systems, as well as lightning protection and mechanical system. This project is part of a $1.9 billion, light-rail system by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide ground transportation service to, from and around John F. Kennedy International Airport. |
AirTrain's Jamaica Station in Queens, NY
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| September 2001 - Parent company RailWorks Corporation and its subsidiaries file for bankruptcy protection. |
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| June 2002 -
Comstock wins the Bergen Street Project, a $25 million contract to pilot Solid State Interlocking (SSI) technology. The project will replace the existing relay-based Bergen Street interlocking with NYCT’s first microprocessor-based interlocking. This new technology will provide NYCT the capability to monitor system performance, increase interlocking operations reliability and make available real-time equipment information to signal maintainers. |
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| November 2002 - Comstock wins the $25 million Canarsie Yard project. The project includes furnishing and installing a new signal system to support a new relay room, including maintainers' panels, and a control and indication panel in the new yard tower. |
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| November 2002 -
RailWorks Corporation reorganizes and emerges from bankruptcy as a privately held company. |
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| April 2003 - Comstock wins the $97.7 million subcontract to rehabilitate signal and communications systems for the Grand Concourse subway line in the Bronx, New York, a key commuter artery linking the Bronx with Manhattan. The project will replace the existing electro-mechanical-based signal system (circa 1939) with conventional fixed-block technology. Comstock will construct and install signal equipment in a new master signal tower, five relay rooms, and a central instrument room and signal power room. |
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| July 2003 - RailWorks is named one of five prime contractors for St. Louis' light rail Cross County Extension project. Valued at $101 million, this project involves Comstock and RailWorks Track Services. The extension will add eight miles to St. Louis ' existing 34.4-mile light rail system called MetroLink, which services the metro region in Missouri and Illinois. |
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| May 2004 -
Ray List is named president and CEO of parent company RailWorks Corporation and shortly later named president of L.K. Comstock & Company, Inc. |
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| July 2004 - Comstock wins the $48 million contract to rehabilitate the signal system on phase II of the Flushing Line, part of New York City Transit's subway system. NYCT awarded the contract to modernize the signal system and interlockings by installing new fixed-block signal equipment. Comstock also will construct two new relay rooms and renovate the existing workshop, master tower and relay room to accommodate the communication and fiber optic technology. |
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| August 2004 - Comstock and sister company RailWorks Track Systems are selected as the primary subcontractor to install the automated people mover (APM) system at Washington Dulles International Airport. Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA), the project prime contractor, awarded the $62.7 million subcontract for the six-year project. |
APM at Dulles International Airport
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| August 2004 - Comstock wins the $14.87 million subcontract to install the signal system on Sound Transit's new 14.5-mile rail line linking downtown Seattle with the Sea-Tac Airport. |
Seattle's Sound Transit System
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| October 2004 - In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the first ride on the New York City subway, RailWorks and Comstock ran this ad in New York Construction News to honor the MTA and New York City Transit. Both the subway system and Comstock celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2004. |
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