Welcome to Eagle Railcar Services - Elkhart, L.P.

Eagle Railcar Services, L.P. is located 10 miles south of Palestine, in Elkhart, Texas and is served by Union Pacic Railroad. The facility is comprised of 48 acres with over 22,800 feet of track. There are no dead end tracks and switching is performed by two track mobile Switchmasters. The main car repair center is over 45,000 square feet. This building utilizes four tracks and is covered with four 20-ton bridge cranes. Eagle Elkhart facility has an 1,100 square foot fully equipped fabrication department which includes a 10 foot shear, 135 ton break press, 55 ton iron worker, 10 foot Webb Plate Roller and numerous other equipment.

Eagle prides itself on providing outstanding service and value to our customers. We offer various general shop services such as field and in-house inspection, including NDT Level II Inspectors. Eagle is AAR Tank Car Certified (M-1002) as well as Quality Assurance Certified (M-1003). Eagle’s services are billed utilizing our electronic billing system.

Eagle provides running and interchange repairs, Rule 88 rebuild as well as service life extensions and wheel bearing replacement. Eagle is 9A Certified and provides Union Pacific delivery with no switching fees to our customers.

Eagle offers outstanding facilities for tank car cleaning. The railcar cleaning and testing facilities are equipped with flaring systems and are permitted for the flaring of various compressed gasses. Eagle also provides cleaning of hopper cars and PD car cleaning. Water blasting services are also available. Valve and tank testing is done at both the Elkhart and Roscoe facilities.

Eagle performs unsurpassed painting and lining services, in our 43,200 square foot building. Eagle performs grit blast/limited sand blasting and plural component paint application in a temperature controlled environment for superior results every time. Eagle also provides exterior painting services and decal stenciling. Eagle Elkhart has recently installed an internal/external automated blast system for high quality surface preparation.

Eagle can perform total wreck damage repair for railcars that have sustained various degrees of damage, this includes heavily damaged tank cars. Eagle ensures that cars are returned to the highest level of operation after receiving wreck repair services. Eagle will also perform JIC preparation if needed.

Eagle provides ultrasonic thickness and weld testing. Eagle can also inspect and repair safety valves, perform heater coil testing services, purging and nitrogen blanket services to clients.