| The
Railcar Manufacturing Facility is located in Northern
Alabama just outside of Mussel Shoals. The facility
will manufacture railcars of all types once it
goes on line in 2009. One of the largest structures
that Southern Division has ever done, being 400'
to 600' wide and 4,800' Long. Total tonnage will
exceed 20,000 tons and will have over 2 million
square feet of roof deck and over 40,000 linear
feet of elevated crane rails and girders to support
overhead cranes in the facility. In addition to
the large size of the structure, the schedule
is extremely aggressive, calling for an erection
start mid February 2008 and having the three main
areas completely erected and turned three and
a hlf months later. To accomplish this very fast
track schedule, Southern Division sublet portions
of the work to our Mid South Facility in Mississippi
along with several other shops in order to get
enough fabricated to deliver 19,000 tons of steel
in a 17 week period, averaging over 60 truckloads
arriving per week at the jobsite and supporting
four different erection cranes and crews. |
