Role: Railroad Engineering Expertise

Project Description: Railroad engineering support expertise in the development of updated railroad design criteria, standard plans, and maintenance maps. The effort incorporated new American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) guidelines and recent best practices to establish a consistent approach to railroad design across POLA projects. New railroad standard plans were developed to provide guidance and details that can be referenced on future POLA projects. Plan details included typical cross sections, ties and transitions, underdrains, utility casings, special trackwork, crossing modules, derails, striping, and compressed air. New railroad asset maintenance responsibility and quality maps provide POLA with a graphical representation of various railroad asset maintenance responsibilities along with identification of the various classes of track to ensure upkeep matches intended operations. PDP performed this work as sub-consultants to Wood Group.