Ties Monthly Update #8

22 August 2007

 

OVER 110,000 OF 185,000 TIES TO BE INSTALLED IN 2007 ARE ALREADY INSTALLED.   SEVEN OF THE ELEVEN MAJOR PROJECTS THAT HIGHLITE THE PRODUCTION YEAR ALREADY COMPLETED!

 

The two Company tie crews and one contractor crew have already installed over 110,000 ties on the two properties on their way to a total installation number of nearly 185,000 ties.  More details of all tie projects scheduled for 2007 are below:

         

 

¨       The first project on the two properties to be completed was one of nearly 12,000 ties on the IC&E’s Rockford subdivision.  This project began in mid April and was completed near the end of the month.  It covered the entire subdivision.  The LA Colo contracting group installed the ties under the supervision of EIC Dan Borgwardt.

 

¨       The second project on the two properties to be completed was one of 14,000 ties on the Upper Black Hills Subdivision and in the Rapid City yard limits on the DM&E.  These ties were installed by the DM&E tie gang under Foreman Wes Risseeuw’s guidance.  This project was completed mid May.

 

¨       The third project that was completed on the two properties was one of 20,000 ties on the Marquette Subdivision between Dubuque, Iowa and Guttenberg, Iowa.  These ties were installed between April and the first week in June by the IC&E crew under Foreman John Thulen. Following this first tie project, the crew then installed new curve rail in several curves and then went on to install ties in the Dubuque, Iowa and Green Island, Iowa sidings before moving forward with their next major tie project south of Nahant, Iowa.

 

¨       The next project on the two properties that was completed is one of 22,000 ties on the upper end of the Marquette Subdivision, between Lansing, Iowa and La Crescent, Minnesota.  This project was done the week of June 11th and completed the work this year for our tie contractor LA Colo.  John Jangula, who is Section Foreman in New Albin, Iowa, supervised this effort for the IC&E.

 

¨       From the Black Hills Subdivision the West DM&E tie gang traveled to Pierre, South Dakota where they began installing ties from Pierre, South Dakota headed west toward Midland, South Dakota.  This 20,000 tie project was completed the week of August 7th and the crew was loaded up to travel to the IC&E where they will install over 40,000 ties on the Jackson, Owatonna and Mason City subs. This work is scheduled to last for 10 to 12 weeks.

 

¨       When the ties on the upper end of the IC&E are installed, the DM&E crew will load up their equipment and head back to Rapid City to install 11,000 ties on the south end of the Black Hills sub between Hermosa and Smithwick. This project will complete the year for the DM&E crew.

 

¨       We are in the process of assembling a small tie crew to install 6,000 yard ties in the Waseca and Huron yards.  This project will extend from now until the end of the year.

 

¨       John Thulen’s IC&E crew completed two projects recently by installing 2,500 ties in the Nahant yard and 12,000 ties in the main line west of Nahant. These projects were completed in late July.

 

 

¨       After the Nahant projects were completed the IC&E crew proceeded to install CWR in several curves on the River sub and when this is completed the crew will complete their 2007 tie installation schedule by installing 22,000 ties between Chillicothe, Missouri and Polo, Missouri.  The IC&E tie crew is scheduled to complete all of their tie installation by mid-September and then will install curve rail for the remainder of the 2007 production year.