CSX Transportation’s Expansion of the Locomotive Service Center and Wheel Truing Facility

Akel Logan Shafer provided architectural and engineering services for the expansion of CSX Transportation’s Locomotive Service Center and Wheel Truing Facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.  A 25,000sf addition to the existing 25,000sf facility included three locomotive service bays, a new parts-storage area, and a wheel truing station. The facility has three 7½-ton bridge cranes, a 17’-deep drop table system for service traction motors, and the wheel truing station. The bays have elevated tracks over a 4’-deep maintenance pit and elevated service platforms for access to all parts of the locomotives. Service engineering systems included compressed air, new and waste oil systems, hot and cold water, and journal oil for services the locomotive generators.  The project construction utilized the Design-Build delivery process.