Track Design Information

Our purpose is to facilitate the site location process and the initiation of rail service.

The following topics are available for your review and information at your convenience:

Our Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Privately Owned Industrial Tracks
(These files are in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format which can be downloaded free here.)

1. Preface, Table of Contents and Introduction
2. Definitions
3. Track Design
4. Clearing, Grubbing, Grading and Seeding
5. Drainage
6. Materials
7. General Construction
8. Crossings (crossings of our tracks by roads, pipelines, wirelines, etc)
9. Bridges, Trestles, Box Culverts, and Unloading Pits
10. Scales
11. Hazardous Commodities
12. Attachments
    1. Oil siding protection from stray electric currents
    2. Application for Pipeline agreement
       • Application for Pipe or Wire Occupancy
       • p. 4 - Sample Diagram of Pipeline agreement drawing
    3. Application for cable and/or wire line agreement
       • p. 2 - Application for cable and/or wire line agreement (cont)
    4. Clearance requirements for cable and wire crossings
    5. Standard track roadbed cross section (heavy tonnage track)
    6. Standard track roadbed cross section (industrial tracks)
    7. Number 8 turnout
    8. Number 10 turnout w/ solid manganese self-guarded frogs
    9. Number 10 turnout w/rail bound manganese frogs
    10. Data on turnouts and crossovers
    11. Clearance diagram for tracks serving industries
    12. Derails
    13. Highway grade crossing - asphalt paving
    14. Highway grade crossing - treated timber
    15. Spikes
    16. Track spiking pattern
    17. Temporary sheeting or bulkheads
    18. Installation instruction for corrugated metal pipe culverts
    19. Corrugated metal culvert gage selection and installation
    20. Bow handled throwing lever
    21. Turnout design schematic
    22. Close clearance sign
    23. Earth mound