Frontier Railroad Services

Frontier Railroad Services is a New Stanton, Pa., railroad contractor that builds and maintains track for freight and industrial customers. On the Worcester Clearance Improvement Project in Massachusetts, it was prime contractor at an overhead bridge where the fix was to lower the track rather than raise the structure. That work, along with RailWorks’ milled tunnel floor, cleared two choke points on Providence and Worcester Railroad track for Norfolk Southern’s East Edge double-stack corridor into Ayer, and ENR East named the job a Best Project on Nov. 5. Track lowering sounds simple. Under a live bridge with drainage and clearance limits, it isn’t, and that’s where a specialty rail crew earns its fee.