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Rail development

Rail-Served Sites Built for Your Growth

Get the full benefits of rail with strategically placed facilities and rail-served sites.

Ready-to-go facility and project solutions

Expand your footprint with BNSF Intermodal hubs, multi-customer logistic centers and certified sites.

Logistics Parks

For intermodal shippers looking for warehouse and distribution space in key strategic markets and centralized access to the BNSF network.

  • Anchored by an intermodal hub in key markets
  • Brings your warehouses and distribution centers closer to the BNSF network
  • More efficient and streamlined logistics
  • Lowered transportation and fuel costs and carbon emissions
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Logistics Centers

For carload customers seeking development-ready sites in BNSF-owned, multi-customer inds

  • BNSF-owned, multi-customer industrial parks
  • Rail infrastructure built and ready for service
  • Shovel-ready sites with faster development timelines
  • Access to strategic markets across the BNSF network
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Certified Sites

For carload customers seeking to develop a rail-served facility on a site verified through BNSF's rigorous 10-step certification process.

  • Independently verified site readiness
  • Documented utility, zoning and access due diligence
  • Reduced project risk before significant investment
  • Faster path from site selection to construction
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What ships in Intermodal containers:
  • Consumer goods
  • Food and beverages
  • Auto parts
What ships in individual railcars:
  • Industrial products
  • Bulk products
  • Agriculture

Faster development with hands-on support

Our Economic Development team makes rail and logistics projects easier from day one. We take a hands-on approach to help you:

  • Select a new site or expand an existing facility
  • Coordinate permits, contractors and project details
  • Evaluate transportation options
  • Establish rail service
  • Navigate the development process with confidence

Talk with our economic development team

Our Economic Development team helps you find a site, plan your project and start rail service. We will walk you through site selection, permitting and rail service setup.

Start a site conversation

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Bringing BNSF to You

For shippers who are not yet ready to develop rail-served facilities or need flexible, scalable options, we can still connect you to our network with solutions that incorporate over-the-road carriers, transload and shortline railroad partners.