NRC auction proves to be yet another success
Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
2016 Auction
NRC
The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association, Inc. (NRC) Annual Railroad Construction and Maintenance Equipment Auction was held April 14 at the Blackmon Auctions facility in Little Rock, Ark.
NRC says that Thomas Blackmon, Jr., of Blackmon Auctions and his team did an outstanding job of running the auction proceedings. The auction was a success with a total of 200 pieces of equipment sold for an NRC auction record $1.3 million to on-site and online bidders.
The 200 pieces of rail construction equipment ranged from hydraulic tools to grapple trucks, tie inserters to 6700 production tampers, anchor machines to equipment trailers and forklifts to pickup trucks.
“The auction was heavily attended, with participation from both old friends and new faces,” the NRC noted. “Equipment prices were varied, with the typical auction surprises on both the high and the low side, but overall were reasonable and reflected a healthy market for used and rehabilitated railroad construction and maintenance equipment.”
The auction committee included Danny Brown of V&H Trucks, Inc., Deric Berry of Herzog Contracting Corp., Mark Gaffney of Stacy & Witbeck, Jay Gowan of Harsco Rail, Paul Laurello of Delta Railroad Construction, Dean Mackey of Progress Rail Services, Dan Samford of Peak Performance Asset Services and Greg Spilker of Encore Rail Systems, Inc.
Along with consignments from dozens of contractors, suppliers and railroads, of which the NRC receives 3 percent of the value with the rest going to the seller, equipment donations to the NRC Auction this year included a trailer from Balfour Beatty Rail, wood tie plugging applicators from Encore Rail Systems, Inc., and a clip inserter and clippers from Railway Equipment Services. One hundred percent of the proceeds from these donations go to the NRC Safety & Education Training program, which will allow the NRC to continue to strengthen its efforts to ensure the safety of everyone in the rail industry, including the continued production the NRC Safety DVD series.
