Hulcher's crews perform a wide range of important projects that fall under the heading of Maintenance Services
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Maintenance Services
As a leading contractor for railroads, industry, grain, coal, trucking / intermodal, environmental consultants and the government, Hulcher Services performs a broad spectrum of support services. Most of the services Hulcher performs fall into one of our primary categories or service lines. However, some services we provide fall outside of those categories and are listed in the general heading of Maintenance Services.
If you operate a rail yard, industrial facility, grain storage facility or trucking operation, you know the to-do list of tasks needed to maintain those properties is endless. Cleaning, repairing and rebuilding, painting . . . every time you complete one job, two more need to be done.
Hulcher's crews have responded to perform an endless list maintenance tasks for railroads and industry. Our laborers have been background checked, trained and certified to work for all Class I Railroads so they are safe and qualified to work at rail yards.
So just what kinds of maintenance services do we provide? In recent history a partial list of tasks we have performed includes:
Asphalt work
- Repaving parking lots
- Patching pot holes
- Resurfacing ramps
- Grading and building walkways and storage pads
- Railroad crossing demolition and construction
- Construction, maintenance and manual labor
- Paint pipes and safety poles in the yard
- Set up a modular building
- Replace steel siding on a car shop
- Hang chicken wire
- Build a chain link fence and sound barrier wall
- Repair hand rail on rail car
- Paint stencils on rail cars
- Trash pickup
- Put down straw wattle for erosion control
- Water roads for dust control
- Clean up a rock and dirt pile following excavation
- Street sweep roads in rail yards
Demolition
- Grain silo demolition
- Signal tower demolition
- Building demolition
- Asphalt demolition
- Utility pole removal
- Move, demolish and dispose of concrete parking blocks
- Hauling and transportation
- Transport equipment, wheels and vehicles
- Move office furniture and supplies
- Haul water bottles for rail crews
- Deliver portable generators to crews
- Haul concrete to support railroad workers
- Relocate 170-ton industrial dredge to new sand pit
- Remove dead animals from track and haul to landfill
Vegetation control
- weed eating and vegetation control at rail yard
- Tree canopy control over right-of-way
- Vegetation control along tracks
- Snow removal
- Clean snow from parking lots at rail yard
- Spread salt following a snow storm
Since 1963 railroads, government and industry have placed their confidence in Hulcher for a wide range of services. With 35 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, Hulcher has hundreds of qualified workers and all the right equipment close by to perform your maintenance tasks as independent services or within the context of larger projects in other service lines.
Call Hulcher today at 800-637-5471 to learn more about our maintenance services and discover how Hulcher can extend your facilities maintenance resources to complete all the tasks on your to-do list.
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Maintenance Services Overview
Overview of Maintenance services available through Hulcher Services.
Asphalt Services
Asphalt projects can be as simple as patching a pothole in a parking lot or as complicated as resurfacing a stretch of road or building a large storage area with asphalt pads and walkways
Railroad Crossing Construction
Hulcher has decades of experience with demolishing and installing railroad crossings at rail yards and on the right-of-way.
Construction, Maintenance & Manual Labor
Hulcher offers a full range of construction, maintenance and manual labor services, ranging from litter clean-up to water trucks to road construction and building fences or modular buildings.
Demolition
Hulcher performs snow removal projects ranging from cleaning a parking lot to clearing an avalanche from the tracks.
Transportation / Relocation
Hulcher's transportation projects range from hauling water bottles to moving damaged railcars to relocating a 170-ton industrial dredge
Vegetation Control
Hulcher performs snow removal projects ranging from cleaning a parking lot to clearing an avalanche from the tracks.
FEATURED MAINTENANCE SERVICES PROJECTS
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Case Study - Forklift Ramp and Parking Lot Asphalt The diesel shop’s loading dock allowed forklifts to bring in palletized shipments of heavy cargo such as traction motors from semi trailers to the storage sheds. Unfortunately, the shop’s dock ramp had a rough, uneven surface that added to wear and tear on forklifts and increased the risk for mishaps during transport. Additionally, the surrounding parking lots had several cracks and potholes that needed attention. |
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Project Snapshot - Hulcher Crew Performs Asphalt Work at Rail Yard A 40-foot stretch of road between the tracks and the trim tower at a rail yard was badly pitted with potholes, and needed repair. The railroad needed a qualified railroad contractor to perform the asphalt road repair close to the tracks. |
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Case Study - Railroad Crossing Construction
A chronic problem for one Midwestern community was the old and worn-out railroad crossing in the center of town. The ride over the tracks was always a bumpy one and extremely hard on the vehicles that crossed it on a daily basis. The railroad was adding a siding nearby and decided they would renovate the railroad crossing at the same time. Following a bidding process, Hulcher Services Inc. was chosen to lead the railroad crossing construction project, which included removing existing crossing, grading, installing new track panel and laying asphalt. |
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Case Study - Hulcher Completes Demolition of Sand Tower and Oil Filling Station
The railroad’s sand tower and adjacent oil filling station were no longer being used and had become an “eye sore” for the local residents. Rather than incurring the expense to maintain the building and tower, the railroad decided the best option was to demolish them. After a competitive bidding process, Hulcher Services was chosen for this project. |
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Case Study - Hulcher Services Grades Five-Acre Lot and Creates Asphalt Pads, Roads and Pathways at Rail Yard The railroad tore down an old building at their yard, opening up a large area to use for outdoor storage. With the demolition completed, the railroad needed a contractor to grade and prepare the space and put in asphalt roads, pads and paths for their Materials Department to use. |
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Project Snapshot - Grapple Truck and Backhoe Break Down Track Panels The railroad had more than 30 damaged track panels that needed to be demolished. Hulcher deployed a grapple truck and backhoe to break down the track panels and separate out the materials for recycling or reuse. |
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Case Study - Hulcher Sidebooms, Track Loaders Moves 170 Ton Industrial Dredge With Precision An aggregate company was ending its lease of a sand pit and needed to relocate its large industrial dredge to another pit approximately one mile away. They needed a company with the hardware capable of safely moving this 340,000 lb., 90’ x 20’ piece of equipment over land. |
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Project Snapshot - Hulcher Dozer Clears Right of Way Vegetation Grass and tall brush were encroaching on a mile-long stretch of track. The railroad needed a contractor that was certified to work on their right-of-way to perform vegetation control. Hulcher responded with a Caterpillar® D5N dozer. |
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Project Snapshot - Hulcher Excavator Performs Vegetation Control On Tree Branch Canopy Over Right-Of-Way A canopy of tree limbs 35 feet over the right-of-way was interfering with double-stack rail cars and ground brush had grown close to the tracks. |
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