NRC names two to board; announces safety award winners
Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association, Inc. (NRC), elected two new members to its board of directors and released the winners of the 2015 NRC/RT&S Contractor and Safety Awards.
Bill Reimer, owner and chief executive officer, R&R Contracting, Inc., and Wiggie Shell, president and chief executive officer, Georgetown Rail Equipment Company (GREX) were elected to the board.
Reimer began his career in the railroad industry working for Burlington Northern and held various positions from laborer to operator to superintendent. He began R&R Contracting in 1988. During the past 27 years, the company has grown, performing design, construction, inspection and maintenance for customers in agriculture, energy, transit, shortline and Class 1 railroads.
Shell brings more than 38 years of rail industry experience to the NRC board. He began his career in 1977 with the Georgetown Railroad Company where he held various positions for more than 21 years. He joined GREX in 1998 as director of mechanical safety. In 2001, he was promoted to vice president of operations. In 2009, he became president and CEO.
The NRC also announced the 2015 Safety Award winners, who will be recognized at the 2016 NRC Conference in San Diego, Calif.
Underwritten by Commercial Insurance Associates, these awards seek to recognize those NRC contractor members with strong workplace safety programs. Participation in the contest increased this year, with 51 rail contracting companies preparing entries.
The NRC notes each of these companies should be commended for their extensive efforts to promote and improve safety in the rail contracting industry and for subjecting their full safety program and range of practices to an exhaustive outside review.
“These companies represent the very best of the NRC and the entire railroad construction and maintenance industry,” stated the association.
In each company size category, there were multiple contestants with perfect scores. NRC says this reflects very well on the participating contractors and speaks to the fact that the railroad contracting industry is safe and getting safer.
The winners are listed as follows:
Platinum Winners – Score of 100 out of 100 points
American Track Generations
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc.
Delta Railroad Construction
Fay, and I+IconUSA Company
Fritz-Rumer-Cooke
Georgetown Rail Equipment Co.
HD Machines, LLC
Herzog Contracting Corp
Herzog Services Inc.
K.W. Reese Inc.
Kenny Construction Company
Kraemer North American, LLC
L.K. Comstock National Transit Inc.
Lone Star Railroad Contractors
MEC – Mass. Electric Construction Company
Musselman & Hall Contractors, LLC
PNR RailWorks
Railroad Constructors Inc.
RailWorks Track Services
RailWorks Track Systems Inc
Rhinehart Railroad Construction Inc.
Stacy and Witbeck, Inc.
TRAM Construction
US Trackworks LLC
Gold Winners – Score of 80-99 points
American Rail Marketing LLC
Capital Railroad Contracting Inc.
Clayton Railroad Construction, LLC
CR Construction Company
Crafton Railroad Company Inc.
East Coast Railroad Services
GW Peoples Contracting
Herzog Railroad Services Inc.
Holland Company
J-Track LLC
Kelly-Hill Company
Loram Maintenance of Way
Moran Environmental
Ragnar Benson
Railroad Construction Co. of South Jersey
Railroad Construction Company Inc.
Railroad Controls Limited
Sharp and Fellows
Tranco Industrial Services, Inc.
Trans-Global Solutions, Inc.
Trumbull
Silver Winners – Score of 70-79 points
Armond Cassil Railroad Constructors
Coleman Industrial Construction
Frontier Railroad Services
Omega Rail Services, Inc.
Queen City Railroad
Universal Rail Systems
