project Archives - Kelly Hill Company

Kelly-Hill Company recently performed inspection and maintenance services for Golden Triangle Energy after a partial derail incident. Charlie Martin of Golden Triangle Energy was kind enough to provide client testimonial of our services.

“After a recent snow/ice storm at GTE we had a loaded car partially derail during a tank car move across a switch. We hired Cranemaster to lift the car back into position.

As a precaution, we notified Neal Houser, Paul Matney and Bill Broekemeier, at Kelly-Hill Company of the derailment and concern over the cause.

Neal Houser arrived very shortly thereafter, (before the crane).

With his experience he identified the problem causing the derail and explained the problem to our crew, stressing the need to clean the snow/ice from the switching/moveable rail components.

He saw that no damage was done and recommended we let some of his crew adjust the switches and rails the next day (Saturday) and we agreed.

The two man crew showed up Saturday and adjusted all of our switches and reported them ready to go after the work was completed.

GTE was very happy with the prompt and knowledgeable response to our derailment incident.

Kelly-Hill Company folks solved a big problem for us and potentially helped us save time/money in the future.”

– Charlie Martin, Golden Triangle Energy

Back in January, Kelly-Hill Company completed construction of a 13,854 track foot loop track for the American Silica production facility in Black Rock, Arkansas. We have started construction on the facility’s second loop track. We will be constructing approximately 8,600 track feet with six No. 11 turnouts, relocating one existing turnout and 400 track feet of bad order track. Construction is scheduled for completion by December 2017.

Kelly-Hill Company attended an open house for the rail shuttle facility at Midwest Farmers Coop’s facility in Syracuse, NE last week. The facility is highly automated (one of only two in Nebraska) and is able to load rail cars at 60,000 to 80,000 bushels of corn per hour. Kelly-Hill Company constructed the 11,550 feet of track back in 2016. Fun facts: the average train length is more than 100 cars and an individual car can be loaded in under four minutes.

On June 13, 2017, the Farmers Cooperative dedicated the new Frankfort, KS Shuttle Facility. Kelly-Hill Company constructed 11,300 track feet of rail with four No. 11 switches at this facility, which is served by Union Pacific Railroad. Congratulations to the members of the Farmers Cooperative who have more access to rail in the Frankfort, KS area.

It’s always great when the weather is wonderful on the railroad. Kelly-Hill Company was hard at work today wrapping up 4,400 track foot rip out and replacement.

Kelly-Hill Company completed some rehabilitation work on the Kansas City Zoo train tracks, which carries patrons on a train throughout the Zoo property. The project included removing and replacing approximately 330 linear feet of 20# curve rail on the high side of the track. We manually lined and leveled the tracks in this area and on 520 track feet at a secondary location. Lining and leveling ensures a safe and smooth ride.