Volume 41 - Issue 5 - February 3, 2022

(Published in the Kansas Register February 3, 2022.)

V&S Railway, LLC

Request for Proposals

V&S Railway, LLC (VSR) is requesting proposals from railroad track contractors for the labor, equipment, fuel, and incidental materials required to rehabilitate the Medicine Lodge Rail Yard, KDOT Project No. 4 RA-5716-21.

The replacement rail, cross ties, spikes, tie plugs and casualty rail, and OTM will be furnished by VSR. The VSR rail yard with eight tracks is predominately 90 lb/yd jointed rail with one yard track being 85 lb/yd jointed rail. The project will encompass renewal of cross ties in all yard tracks, replacement of defective switch ties, defective tie plates, the relay of approximately 300 track feet of 90 lb/yard of the main line at the east end of the yard with 112 lb/yd rail, the complete replacement of two No. 10–112 lb/yd switches (connecting rail and switch ties), the relay of two 90 lb/yd yard tracks and additional miscellaneous track work.

Copies of the Request for Proposals (RFP) may be obtained by contacting Ed Landreth, a contractor to the VSR and the designated VSR project manager for this project by phone at 505-239-9915 or via email at EWLandreth@aol.com. Proposals are due March 14, 2022.

V&S Railway, LLC reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive technicalities.

Ed Landreth
Project Manager

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