Offering more than 50 years of combined experience working on nearly every class-1 railroad, Blackwood’s management team has a thorough understanding of the environmental and logistic challenges in performing tie recycling and disposal services.  Providing sustainable tie recycling and disposal services requires a robust equipment list and extensive knowledge of both landscape and RTDF (railroad-tie-derived fuel) markets.  Unprecedented closures of biomass plants throughout the United States have led to a volatile market for RTDF.  Blackwood is proud to differentiate itself from competitors by aggressively pursuing alternative solutions for crosstie recycling/disposal, while still offering practical solutions in the current market.  

 

Specific services that Blackwood is equipped to perform include:

• Hi-rail scrap tie pickup

• Hi-rail new tie distribution

• Hi-rail OTM and rail pickup

• Car loading services and unloading services

• Tie sorting and bundling services

• Landscape tie sales

• Over the road tie transport services

• Scrap tie railcar management

• Railroad tie derived fuel production and sales (RTDF)

• Crosstie shredding services

• Abandoned track removal