L.B. Foster supplies 1,553 tons of rail for Iowa Interstate RR
Written by jrood
L.B. Foster Company is supplying 1,553 tons of new rail to Iowa Interstate Railroad, LTD, for new track installation and spur improvements. A specially-equipped L.B. Foster work train will deliver approximately 80,000 linear feet of 115# standard continuous welded rail in May 2011 to an Iowa Interstate interchange. The rail is manufactured and welded in lengths up to 1,600 feet by Steel Dynamics, Inc., at their Rail Products facility in Columbia City, Ind. and shipped on L.B. Foster's company-owned weld train. SDI is a strategic partner of L.B. Foster and a supplier of quality welded cwr strings to the Pittsburgh-based rail products company. "Maintaining our own weld trains helps to expedite cwr shipments from our supplier plants and provides better coordination of delivery to staging areas nationwide," said Jay Roach, L.B. Foster sales manager.
