Snohomish County gets funding boost for $35M rail project

EVERETT — Snohomish County secured grant funds in a federal spending bill that will bring a financial boost to a planned rail improvement in north Everett.

The $2 million in transportation dollars, received by the county as part of a federal grant package, will go toward designing upgrades at the Delta rail yard, located along the Snohomish River in northeast Everett. The yard, owned by freight rail giant BNSF, is also used by the county for transporting solid waste, and used by Amtrak for passenger rail service.

Those improvements are part three of a three-phase plan the county is undertaking to prevent rail bottlenecks and increase capacity at both the Delta Yard and the nearby Snohomish County Intermodal Yard to manage the increased need for solid waste services.

Phases one and two of the project will upgrade the Snohomish County Intermodal Yard. The upgrades will add a new rail to increase track capacity on the county property and created more on-site storage for containers, according to a county document. Those upgrades have already been funded by the county — at a cost of about $13.5 million — and are expected to be completed by summer 2027.

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