Fort Worth, TXGE Locomotive Manufacturing
GE built a new locomotive manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas in 2007. American Track took over the design and construction of the rail portion of the project. One of the key concerns of this project was the relatively limited property on which to construct everything the customer wanted. Extremely tight curves and custom diamond crossing frogs were designed in order to meet the customers needs.
- Design
- 11,103 Total Feet of Track
- 9,552 Total feet of track in direct fixation or embedded in concrete.
- Two custom designed crossing diamonds
- Ten fully embedded turnouts with integrated drainage
- Crain Rail installed for two Transfer Table
- Fabrication of Transfer Tables
Project Stats:
Start: January, 2012
End: November, 2012
Cost: $3.5 Million
American Track Location:
North Texas
Project Services:
New Construction
We are a railroad construction company that can meet any of your track needs whether it’s a few hundred feet or miles of track construction.
Engineering Design/Build
Our in-house engineers have vast field experience allowing them to optimize designs for both functionality and constructibility.
Special Trackwork
Our vast experience as a full-service railroad construction company in the industry allows us to offer many services that our competitors do not. Some of these services include Design/Build, Track Scales, Rail Bridges, Unloading Pits, Embedded Track, Direct Fixation, Insulated joints, Crossings, Circle Track and Crane Rail.
