Platinum
► CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is a transportation company providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. Our transportation network connects customers to ports, production and distribution centers and markets across the eastern United States.
CSX Transportation, Inc.: A principal operating company of CSX Corporation, CSX Transportation (CSX), provides a crucial link to the transportation supply chain through its approximately 21,000 route mile rail network, which serves every major population center in 23 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It serves 70 ocean, river and lake ports along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. CSX also serves thousands of production and distribution facilities through track connections to more than 230 short-line and regional railroads.
CSX Real Property, Inc.: CSX Real Property is the real estate subsidiary of CSX Corporation that is responsible for sales, leasing and development of properties. It serves customers through sale of land for industrial development as well as rail corridor use for utilities, pipelines or telecommunication transmission lines. Headquarters are located in Jacksonville, Fla.
► Norfolk Southern Corporation is a Norfolk, Va-based company that controls a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company. The railway operates approximately 21,300 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and Ontario, Canada, serves all major eastern ports and connects with rail partners in the West and Canada, linking customers to markets around the world. Norfolk Southern provides comprehensive logistics services and offers the most extensive intermodal network in the East.
Gold
► For more than three decades, AECOM has played a vital role in helping clients keep their promises related to effective water management, improved air and land quality, safer and more efficient facilities, and transportation systems that meet today's demands and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
► A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, BNSF Railway operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The railway is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulphur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States.
► HDR is an employee-owned architectural, engineering and consulting firm with more than 7,000 professionals in 150 locations worldwide. All of them are committed to helping clients manage complex projects and make sound decisions. HDR is ranked No. 19 overall in the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms for 2007, and No. 9 in both transportation and water supply. In 2008 HDR acquired PHAROS Corporation, a real estate and right-of-way consulting firm providing a full range of real estate services to railroads, government, public agencies, and utility companies. By combining forces, the HDR/PHAROS team of real estate professionals is available nationwide to address all right-of-way and project management needs. HDR is now one of the leading providers of engineering, environmental and real estate services to the North American rail industry.
Silver
► At Bartlett & West, we take a more-rounded view in creating value for our clients. With a portfolio of professional solutions—from engineering to landscape architecture, from GIS to information management, from field services to sustainable development—our people bring a 360 degree perspective to our clients' challenges.
► Clear Channel Outdoor, (NYSE:CCO) is the world’s largest outdoor advertising company with close to one million displays in over 50 countries across 5 continents. In the United States, the company operates over 200,000 advertising displays and has a presence in 48 of the top 50 Designated Market Areas. It also operates airport, rail, and mall advertising businesses worldwide. Its Spectacolor (U.S.) and DEFI (international) divisions are the global market leaders in spectacular sign displays, including in New York’s Times Square. Clear Channel Adshelis the company's international street furniture division, which operates over 3,500 municipal advertising contracts worldwide. Clear Channel Outdoor also operates digital displays and networks in most of its divisions.
► Herzog Contracting Corp. began operations as heavy/highway contractors, incorporating in Missouri in 1969, and is a national leader in transit and railroad construction and maintenance, maintaining major offices and equipment fleets in Dallas, Texas, Long Beach, California, and St. Joseph, Missouri, and with over 1,200 employees. Herzog has completed numerous projects in the transit industry and for Class 1 Railroads since beginning operations in 1969. Herzog has played a key role in the construction and upgrading of many rail and transit systems. This would include light rail and other transit projects with extensive street crossings, bridges, tunnel, aerial and at grade track in Portland, Sacramento, San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Buffalo to name a few. Additionally constructed were new track construction and double track improvements on commuter rail or Class 1 Rail lines in Washington State, South Florida, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles and throughout the Country.
Herzog also held on-going contracts for commuter railroad maintenance in California. These ROW maintenance contracts for the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA) provided for maintenance for over 450 track miles of this mixed use system (commuter passenger and Class 1 rail freight), including track inspection to FRA standards.
Through Herzog Transit Services, Inc., Herzog is the only private contractor operating and maintaining Inter-City Commuter Rail service in the United States (Tri-Rail System, Miami, FL; Trinity Rail Express, Dallas, TX; Altamont Commuter Express, Stockton, CA).
Herzog’s commuter rail operations, rolling stock maintenance and trackwork inspection/maintenance to FRA standards provides a unique experience enabling Herzog to apply these skills to any rail transportation project from design to a fully constructed project. Throughout Herzog’s history, they have continually demonstrated the ability to bring innovative solutions to rail transportation issues.
► Strong Capital is an institutional fund manager that specializes in acquiring non-core railroad assets. To date, Strong Capital has acquired close to 14,000 assets in the United States and Canada.
Bronze
► We have the team, the ingenuity and the expertise to get it there. At Canadian Pacific, customers are the core of our business. Every year we move hundreds of thousands of tons of goods coast-to-coast safely and efficiently. But at Canadian Pacific, we're more than tracks and trains.