BNSF in 2025 is devoting nearly 75% of its $3.8 billion capital plan, or $2.84 billion, to maintenance, including 11,400 miles of track surfacing and/or undercutting work and the replacement of 410 ...

Work will continue through 2026. The project includes replacing 12,000 ties between Columbia Center Boulevard and Horn Rapids Road. A full mile of rail and track in the Wye will be replaced and ...

Workers unload old railroad ties from a box car at the Track Line operation in Newberry. (Courtesy of Suzette Cook) NEWBERRY – A fine, woody dust floated onto Jeremiah McIntosh’s property near ...

The track ballast is packed below, between, and around the railroad ties. The thickness of the track ballast is usually around 25 to 30 cm, sometimes more depending on the amount of traffic on the ...

rectangular slats that sit perpendicular under the rail on a railroad track, according to NNEPRA. The ties support the weight of trains over tracks and keep the rails upright. It's an important ...