en.Wedoany.com Reported - BuildersFirst Source (BFS) has opened and begun operations at a newly constructed rail-served facility in the Rocky Mountain Rail Park east of Denver, with the first railcars arriving to supply raw materials for the plant's lumber, truss, and wall panel manufacturing, serving the Colorado Front Range market. BFS is one of the largest building products and construction services suppliers in the United States; the investment amount and facility size have not been disclosed.
The facility is a newly built rail-connected industrial site within the Rocky Mountain Rail Park, a Union Pacific Railroad property and one of 45 key sites designated for long-term industrial development. The park spans 620 acres, with on-site rail service provided by short-line operator Patriot Rail and direct access to the Union Pacific mainline. BFS's operations will utilize rail to receive logs and other building materials to supply its engineered wood product manufacturing. The number of new jobs created, projected annual carload volume, and total capital expenditure have not been made public.
Project participants include BuildersFirst Source, Union Pacific Railroad, and Patriot Rail. The facility is operational, though the specific start date has not been provided. The project is located in the Colorado Front Range region, connecting to the Union Pacific mainline via Patriot Rail.
According to data from the Association of American Railroads, driven by consumer freight demand and a modal shift from truck to rail, U.S. domestic intermodal volume grew by 1.5% in 2025, reaching the second-highest annual level on record. This trend is fueling demand for rail-served industrial parks like the Rocky Mountain Rail Park. Union Pacific's key site network now totals 45 locations, compared to BNSF Logistics Park Kansas City at approximately 3,000 acres and CSX's Carolina Connector terminal at 1,300 acres, making the 620-acre Denver-area park a mid-sized development. Building materials shippers are increasingly co-locating with rail infrastructure to circumvent truck capacity constraints and rising freight costs, a strategy echoed by recent transload and manufacturing rail parks in the Sun Belt and Mountain West. The specific construction cost and rail spur investment for the BFS facility remain undisclosed. (Sources: AAR, 2025; Company data, 2024)
Note: As of publication, BFS's projected railcar volume and total investment have not been independently verified.
