I want to ship freight by rail.
Explore how direct carload service can support repeat industrial lanes, bulk materials, packaged products, inbound ingredients, and outbound finished goods.
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Freight Rail Services
Start with your freight need.
Whether you are moving freight, evaluating a transload location, storing railcars, or planning a rail-served expansion, the B&H team can help identify a practical path forward.
Find the Right Starting Point
Rail service should be built around the operation.
Every freight project is different. Some customers already have rail at their facility. Others need a transload option, additional railcar storage, a new siding, or a site that can support future growth.
B&H works with manufacturers, processors, distributors, developers, and site selectors to evaluate the freight, location, infrastructure, and service requirements behind each opportunity.
Choose Your Need
What are you trying to accomplish?
Use these paths to reach the information, locations, and people most relevant to your project.
My facility does not have rail access.
Evaluate Coopers Plains and other family transload options where freight can transfer between rail and truck.
View Transload Options →I need railcar storage.
Review options for loaded or empty cars and discuss commodity, timing, placement, switching, sequencing, and access requirements.
Explore Railcar Storage →I am expanding or evaluating a site.
Explore support for site selection, rail access, track concepts, utilities, industrial properties, and project coordination.
Explore Development →I need tariffs or customer resources.
Access tariff documents, fuel surcharge information, customer contacts, equipment-planning tools, and operating resources.
View Tariff Information →
A Practical Evaluation
Not sure which service fits?
Begin with the freight and operating need. The team can help evaluate whether direct rail, transload, storage, or site development deserves a closer look.
Share the freight profile.
Tell us what is moving, where it originates, where it is going, expected annual volume, and when service may begin.
Review the operating fit.
B&H evaluates rail access, routes, interchange, railcar type, handling, storage, site requirements, and service considerations.
Identify the path forward.
The next step may be a rate review, transload comparison, site visit, track concept, storage plan, or development discussion.
Prepare for the Conversation
What helps us evaluate a freight opportunity?
You do not need to have every answer before contacting us. These details help the team identify the most useful next questions.
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CommodityWhat product or material is moving?
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Origin and destinationWhere will the shipment begin and end?
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Annual volumeEstimated tons, railcars, or truckloads per year.
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Railcar typeKnown equipment or handling requirements.
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Facility accessExisting siding, nearby track, or transload need.
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TimingExpected startup and development schedule.
Rail Access Without a Private Siding
Coopers Plains extends rail service beyond the track.
The B&H transload and warehouse facility at Coopers Plains gives non-rail-served businesses a practical way to use rail while retaining local truck pickup or delivery.
40,000-square-foot building
Four dry-storage bays and indoor product-handling space.
Two rail spurs
Rail access supporting transload and warehouse activity.
Certified truck scale
On-site weighing and multiple mobile conveyor options.
Hazmat capability
Acceptance remains subject to commodity and railroad review.
Customer Support
Tools and information for current and future rail customers.
Access tariff information, equipment-planning resources, storage guidance, and business-development support from B&H and the LA&L railroad family.
01 / Rates & Rules
Tariffs & Fuel Surcharge
Current public tariff, common charges, archived documents, and live fuel-surcharge information.
View Tariffs → 02 / Equipment PlanningRailcar Specification Tool
Compare common railcar types and translate truck volume into an early planning estimate.
Open Central Tool ↗ 03 / Fleet SupportRailcar Storage
Review approximate capacity, commodity status, quote details, switching, and access considerations.
View Storage → 04 / Customer AssistanceContact the B&H Team
Discuss freight, routing, equipment, service, transload, storage, or development needs.
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Start the Conversation
Have a freight move, facility, or development project to evaluate?
Contact the B&H business development team to discuss the commodity, origin, destination, annual volume, rail access, handling needs, storage requirements, and project timing.