Railcar Dismantling
Repurpose your end-of-life rail assets into real returns with our end-to-end metal recovery and value-driven dismantling services.
Our competitively priced service ensures safe, compliant teardown of locomotives, freight cars, and specialty units—designed to recover maximum usable material while minimizing downtime.
Across our five railcar dismantling locations we offer several service options including:
- Dismantling: The systematic disassembly of railcars.
- Clean to cut: We’ve partnered with Tactical Cleaning to provide extensive railcar cleaning.
- Core parts recovery: Identifying components that can be salvaged and provided to qualifying reconditioning facilities
for refurbishment and supply back to the market.
Precision Parts Recovery
We don’t just dismantle—we deliver return on materials, operational efficiency, and measurable financial impact.
The following locations offer railcar dismantling:
27063 State Route 281 East, Defiance, OH 43512
Phone: +1 419 782 7791
- CSX Served
- Large capacity yard
- On-site clean-to-cut service*
- Non-ferrous railcar processing
- Accepts railcars delivered on flat-decks
300 Steel Road South, Morrisville, PA 19067
Phone: +1 215-850-4176
- Conrail Served (NS/CSX)
- Car length limited to 75’ due to delivering road curve**
- Non-ferrous railcar processing
- Accepts railcars delivered on flat-decks
- Medium capacity yard
425 West 152nd Street, East Chicago, IN 46312
Phone: +1 219-378-7426
- IHB served (16 railroad interchanges including ALL class I railroads)
- Non-ferrous railcar processing***
- Medium capacity yard
21 Japhet Street, Houston, TX 77020
Phone: +1 713-671-2900
- UP served
- Medium to large capacity yard
- Non-ferrous railcar processing
- Accepts railcars delivered on flat-decks
600 South 4th Street, Richmond, CA 94804
Phone: +1 510-412-5300
- RPRC served (UP/BN interchange)
- Small capacity yard
- Non-ferrous railcar processing
Restrictions:
*Commodities for cleaning specified by partner (Tactical Cleaning Services)
**75’ length limit for Fairless (serving road has a curve restriction)
*** Cushioned cars not permitted in East Chicago
Safety Information
Health and safety are our utmost priorities – this is non-negotiable and there
are no exceptions.
The safety and well-being of our staff, contractors and visitors is paramount. To ensure that we meet our high health and safety standards,
we have a comprehensive and exhaustive health and safety policy endorsed by our Board of Directors.
Each operating division has its own committee, which monitors incidents, provides direction and works in conjunction with OH&S
professionals. Every health and safety incident, no matter how large or small, is recorded within our comprehensive safety system. This
allows us to analyze the possible causes of incidents and implement mitigation strategies to ensure that they are not repeated.
Health and safety is everybody’s business at Sims Metal – it is a shared responsibility. Initiatives undertaken include peer-to-peer
observational behavior audits, continuous risk assessments, initial staff induction and ongoing Health and Safety training. We have also
recently engaged DuPont Safety Resources to conduct an extensive review of our OH&S practices.
Our Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate – which is the number of lost time injuries recorded multiplied by one million and divided by the number
of hours worked – for the Group dropped to 0.11 in fiscal year 2025, a 52% decrease from 0.23, making fiscal year 2025 our safest year ever.
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