Freight Rail

When it comes to planning, designing, and constructing rail systems to move freight, Parsons applies the same comprehensive and fully integrated battery of services we apply to heavy and light rail, high-speed, and commuter projects. These include:

• Start-up/testing/inplant inspection
• Environmental studies and design
• Technology assessment
• Alignment, track, and right-of-way services
• Electrification and traction power design
• Bridge and tunnel design
• Intermodal and multimodal facilities design
• Train control engineering (wayside and on-board)
• Terminal, yard, and station design and access
• Communications engineering
• Vehicle specifications
• Maintenance facilities and systems
• Safety and systems assurance

Here, as in all aspects of rail and transit, Parsons offers customers an integrated single solution.

Our freight railroad experience includes more than 15 years of on-call engineering for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, the Alameda Corridor design/build railroad relocation, and preparation for the environmental impact statement for the $10 billion Conrail acquisition by CSX and Norfolk Southern.