In today's changing world of globalization and increasing fuel costs, the rail map is changing. Railroads and industries are constantly looking at ways of reducing their transportation costs and maximizing the use of their assets. AllRail offers the necessary expertise that will help you better plan your capital projects while minimizing investment costs. Our Railroad Planning team works with you to help maximize the use of your existing infrastructure while minimizing your capital investment.

So whether you're a Class 1 Railroad, a mining operation, passenger rail service, or an industry, AllRail can help improve your rail operations.

Our services include:

• Operations review and efficiency improvements (optimization studies)
• Recommending best use of existing capacity including practical steps to increase capacity
• Plant expansions to handle more rail cars at your location
  • New or expanded rail facilities to handle increased storage, receiving or departing traffic
  • Interface between rail and truck for transloading
  • In-plant Rail optimization
• Yard/track layouts
• Computer simulations of your rail operation
• Accident/incident investigation with root cause analysis and recommended improvements
• Safety Audits where we'll review your operations and train handling, equipment, infrastructure to ensure safe operating practices and recommend changes to meet or exceed industry safety standards
• Transportation Economics - costing studies and rail evaluation enabling shippers and the serving railway to agree on an equitable shipping rate
• Expert witness for Rail related litigation - provide the necessary expertise be it for operations, mechanical or track engineering in litigation cases

With AllRail's comprehensive suite of services, we can take the project from conception to implementation be it an improved operating plan or a plant expansion.

AllRail offers the full range of Rail Engineering Services required to design, build, maintain and operate a railroad. Whether it's a straightforward track inspection or the construction of a rail yard, we provide our customers with creative, cost effective solutions.

Our Engineering services include:

• Track inspections and maintenance plans including report of defects requiring immediate and longer term remediation. Recommendations for a 3-5 year maintenance plan with a proposed annual investment plan
• Yard and track design including geotechnical engineering, infrastructure planning and environmental assessment leading to construction of regular and specialty track work for railways, commuter services or industrial clients
• Detailed engineering
• Preparation of tender documents and track construction supervision for industrial customers and others wishing to add trackage at their facility. AllRail will prepare the tender documents including technical specifications and can also provide track construction supervision and quality control during the construction phase
• Bridge design, inspection and ratings including bridge testing program with inspection of underside as well as rating of bridges for weight capacity
• Track maintenance standards and practices
• Project management and construction services

AllRail's rolling stock services include:

• Car Design and Modifications which can include designing a specialty rail car to meet customers' specifications or designing special modifications to an existing rail car.
• Mechanical Inspection and Maintenance where AllRail will provide the necessary expertise to inspect cars and locomotives and provide recommendations to increase their lifespan.
• Quality Control - provide quality control services to customers having their locomotives repaired to ensure the supplier is meeting the prescribed specifications.
• Preparation of Tender Documents for customers going out to bid for new cars or locomotives requiring detailed technical specifications.

AllRail's Comprehensive 3rd party Industrial Rail Switching

In providing Industrial Rail services to customers, AllRail's objective is to provide a worry free service to its customers and allow them to focus on their core business. Depending on the services required, we can provide a basic industrial rail service comprising of fully trained manpower and locomotives. Customers can also choose other services from our suite of products like car tracking software to better track the location of rail cars inside the plant and help reduce demurrage charges. We can also provide light track maintenance like adjusting and lubricating switches or light car maintenance. If the customer chooses services in addition to switching, employees would be cross trained to make better use of their time.

AllRail's suite of products for this service includes:

• Rail car switching
• Light track maintenance
• Light car maintenance
• In plant car tracking software
• Car loading/unloading
• Car cleaning

For greenfield sites or expansion of rail infrastructure, we can provide railway engineers to review the proposed operation, design a high level yard layout, followed by detailed engineering once the layout is approved by the customer. We can then work with the customer to finalize the tender documents and supervise the construction work to ensure it fully meets the customer's specifications and requirements.

AllRail's international capabilities includes management consulting services to assist clients in corporate reorganizations, operations management, marketing studies, business plans, fleet management and track maintenance practices in order to better utilize the clients' assets and run a more cost effective organization.

We can assist mining and petroleum companies in developing their rail projects from concept to implementation. We can then manage their rail operation. We can also assist in preparing operating plans, evaluating any capacity issues, and rate negotiations with the servicing railway, if this is the case.

AllRail is also capable of assembling the best management team to take over rail concessions including local and financial partners to make the necessary investments in infrastructure and rolling stock to ensure the success of these concessions.

AllRail's suite of International services covers the spectrum of taking a project from conception to implementation and includes:

• Management Consulting
• Operations Management
• Fleet Management
• Track Design and Maintenance Standards
• Operating Concessions