The U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Rail Line Relocation and Improvement (RLR) Grant Program will fund projects including the Port of San Francisco, Calif., to improve an approximately one mile-long spur connecting a Caltrain mainline track to the San Francisco Rail Yard; and Sprague, Ct., to upgrade track on the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company’s Willimantic Branch, allowing freight operations to increase speed from 10 mph to 40 mph. Located in a rural section of east central Connecticut, the Willimantic Branch serves local shippers, and improvements will provide for more efficient movement of freight shipments originating from or destined to customers across the nation or overseas.