Each 40 new manufacturing jobs creates 25 additional support jobs within a community. Expansion plans call for the facility to grow to 125,000 square feet. Gorden Deisch of Regency Construction and Noel Griffith of Noel Griffith Architects were awarded the bid. The manufacturing facility in Cheyenne serves railroads like Union Pacific and Southern Pacific with trackwork products. Trackwork manufacturing involves machining of castings, steel rails and steel flat bar.
Employees then fit the components with bolts and fasteners into assemblies.
The operation is similar to a heavy fabrication or machining shop. The raw materials are both heavy and long. Rails weigh between 30 and 50 pounds per foot and pieces manufactured frequently are up to 130 feet long. Nortrak ships the manufactured product out normally by railcar, or in some cases, by truck. The Cheyenne facility focuses on assembly and machining of rails.