BNSF Railway Co. announced last week that it will invest approximately $405 million in Texas for capital expenditures and maintenance.
The investment is part of the company’s $3.57 billion network-wide 2019 capital expenditure program.
“We operate on nearly 5,000 miles of track in Texas,” Janssen Thompson, general manager of operations for the Red River Division, said. “Our continued capital investments in this state reflect our continued commitment to enhancing the safety, capacity and fluidity of our railroad and enable us to meet our customers’ freight transportation needs.”
The bulk of the funds will be used for expansion projects aimed at enhancing capacity and fluidity. Capital expansion projects include new staging tracks at the Eagle Pass Border Gateway, installing centralized traffic control along a stretch of the Madill Subdivision, beginning two siding projects on the Madill Subdivision, beginning a double-track project between the Alliance Intermodal Facility in Fort Worth and Cleburne, and expanding the Alliance Intermodal Facility.
The facility’s expansion is a multiyear project.
Maintenance projects include replacing nearly 30 miles of rail and close to 210,000 ties along with approximately 680 miles of track surfacing and/or undercutting work.
BNSF has invested more than $1.8 billion in Texas over the past five years.