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TGB Group Again Named a Top 10 Railroad Engineering Services Company

Honor given for second consecutive year by Commtrex, managers of a leading rail services company directory

Commtrex, creators of a popular online Rail Services Directory, has for the second year in a row named TGB Group as a top-10 railroad engineering services company. The announcement was formally made in September 2019 on Commtrex.com.

Our entire team is proud of this honor, because it tells us we’re doing things right and providing the quality railroad engineering services that help our clients meet and exceed their construction and expansion goals.

This year’s Top 10 Railroad Engineering Services Company award went to leading engineering firms across the USA in places like Matthews, N.C., Brentwood, Tenn., Louisville, Ken., Greely, Colo., and Beaumont and Houston, Texas.

We thought it was interesting that three Texas-based railroad engineering services companies made the list – the most from any state. But it’s not surprising: Texans have always been known for doing jobs right.

About Commtrex

Commtrex is the only open online marketplace serving the U.S. and Canadian rail industries. The company provides its extensive directory as well as a forum where rail cars can be bought, sold and leased.

The Commtrex directory is a central place where project managers and business developers throughout the country can search for just the right railroad engineering services company for their project.

Winning this award and being aligned with Commtrex will only be a step in the right direction for TGB Group as we continue to streamline our services and add to our expertise. Our listing on Commtrex.com notes our affiliation with BNSF and Union Pacific railroads and our expertise in engineering track design, track construction services and track design services. We consider that excellent publicity!

We’re proud to be a railroad engineering services company right here in Texas

As a Texas-based railroad engineering services company, we strive to bring positive benefits to all the neighboring communities where we work. We believe that positive business dealings and exceptional results can help communities grow and prosper. We’re committed to doing our part to serve the great state of Texas and other great states throughout the country.

September 25, 2019
TGB Group Awarded 2019 Best of Spring, TX

TGB Group, LLC Receives 2019 Best of Spring Award

We took top honors in the Civil Engineering and Consulting Company category

TGB Group, LLC has been selected to receive the 2019 Best of Spring Award in the “Civil Engineering and Consulting Company” category by the Spring Award Program.

The award is set up to honor the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Spring, Texas, area. The award recognizes companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value within a given market.

Contributions recognized by Best of Spring Award

The program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in the Spring community. The award organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Their mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

Each year, the Spring Award Program identifies companies it believes have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and their community. These exceptional companies help make the Spring area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2019 Spring Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners were determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Spring Award Program and data provided by third parties.

All of us here at TGB Group are honored to receive this award. It really validates all the hard work we do to help our overall community and everyone who lives in it.

It also validates our efforts within the local business community and our belief that true success is achievable only through a commitment to the highest level of customer service and integrity in all our dealings.

September 23, 2019
“Measure Twice, Cut Once”: A Critical Principle in Our Project Management Services
The importance of accurate measurement can’t be overemphasized

One of TGB Group’s signature project management services is construction staking. Accurate measurement in this discipline is the first step toward success, and the benefits of measuring twice and double-checking those measurements are huge. Correctly staking a project layout is a crucial activity that when done right prevents countless construction delays and mistakes that often can’t be undone and likely will cause more time and money to be spent than what was allocated in the budget.

Taking shortcuts to complete a project might seem tempting initially. A faster work process, quicker completion of various project management services phases, an easier time doing the mundane groundwork – one might think all this will lead to saving money at the end of the day. However, failure to double check a plan, its measurements and its requirements can be very costly.

Quality project management services includes best-fixes, not quick-fixes

Though we live in an age where impatience has become the norm and quick-fixes often take the place of best-fixes, TGB Group professionals are not in the practice of cutting corners and wasting valuable time and resources. Your project is unique to your business and important to us, so we take the time to “measure twice, cut once,” as the wise old adage goes.

We’re happy to spend time early in the project verifying results and laying the foundation for cost-effective success so we don’t have to waste time later re-calculating what should have been calculated correctly the first time. Undoing something and then redoing it does not make for happy engineers.

TGB Group’s highly skilled team provides exceptional consulting, design and project management services to our railroad, commercial, industrial and economic development clients. We can execute any size project, from a simple parking lot to a thousand-acre or larger multi-use industrial park. We design solutions to meet a project’s goals and constraints.

With more than 70 years’ combined experience, we are focused on client satisfaction and dedicated to delivering high-quality products to our clients and yours. When you work with us, you can be assured that impatience, shortcuts and mis-measuring will not wreak unexpected havoc with your budget!

Site development/project management services

For every phase of every project, we provide the professional project management services you need for an outstanding result:
- Conceptual layouts
- Master planning
- Platting and zoning
- Survey and design
- Permitting assistance
- Storm water management
- Bid administration
- Construction staking
- Construction management
To learn more about how our expert design and project management services will lead to better outcomes in your next project, please contact:

Mike Murphy, president, TGB Group: (866) 217-7794
July 27, 2019
Jindal Saw USA hires TGB Group for design and rail-consulting services
We’ll provide the design for 11,500+ feet of track and more for this major expansion project

Jindal Saw USA has contracted with TGB Group for rail-consulting services and other professional services for a new pipe mill at Jindal Saw’s pipe manufacturing and pipe coating facility in Baytown, Texas.

Expansion to the existing facility includes a new 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, new rail connections with Union Pacific Railroad at the north and south ends of the property, service roads, drainage and a new road crossing.

Our design and rail-consulting services will include:
- Design of over 11,500 feet of track that will include a new siding for the railroads to use
- Drop and pull tracks for Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
- Loading and unloading tracks that will enter the new building
- Drainage for the new rail
- A new road crossing for access to an additional piece of the property on the other side of the railroad’s main line.
When design work is completed and approved by the railroads, TGB will provide permitting assistance and construction oversight for the project.

TGB started the rail-consulting project in late June 2019 and is already well on the way to completing the first phase of the Union Pacific Industrial Development process.

Along with professional rail-consulting services, our team will provide preliminary conceptual designs and a proposed operating plan for the railroad’s review. Upon approval of preliminary drawings, we will continue with the engineering design documents and additional review procedures with Union Pacific and Chambers County to gain final approval for construction of the track portion of the project.

Construction of the project is expected to start in the middle of 2020 and last for about six months.

To learn more about our rail-consulting services and other design work for the Jindal Saw rail project, please contact:

Mike Murphy, president, TGB Group: (866) 217-7794
July 27, 2019
Railroad-Served Fertilizer Distribution center

Location: North Texas

TGB Group was hired by Crop Production Service, LLC (CPS) and Texas North Western Railway (TXNW) to provide the civil design for a new 27-acre industrial site for a fertilizer distribution center in the railway’s new Panhandle Logistics Park. The design would include a 17,500-square-foot dry fertilizer storage building, a 12,500-square-foot liquid/chemical storage building, and a 22,000-square-foot seed packaging warehouse building. Designs also were needed for an application building, a maintenance building and an office building.

Drainage, access and other project specs

The site called for a layout to connect to the Texas Northwestern Railway, a short line railroad located in the Texas Panhandle. The site design included grading and drainage for three storage tanks with capacities from 300,000 gallons to one million gallons and room for additional tanks. Also needed were two industrial entrances off a county road, a commercial truck scale and fencing for the entire property.

TGB’s duties included developing plans for site grading, stormwater detention and erosion control in accord with CPS and TXNW requirements and the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan. We also created designs for containment and more than 3,300 feet of railroad track for up to 12 cars at a time.

Special considerations had to be made for coordination with the short line railroad to ensure that the new spur met its standards. Railroad operations and proper drainage were maintained at all times throughout the project. To ensure that the work would be completed on-time and on-budget, our team coordinated site development activities with multiple contractors that provided various key services for the project.

Completion and approval

Our design was completed in the summer of 2017, after which the developer and short line railroad reviewed and approved our site plan. The project was designed to local standards; the rail design met American Railway Engineering & Maintenance-of-Way Association guidelines and standards. The developer required a fast-track design schedule for the project, and all timelines were met or exceeded in order to start construction that summer.

If you’d like to know more about TGB Group’s involvement in this project, please contact:

Mike Murphy, president, TGB Group: (832) 748-7603
Clayton Kendall, TNW Corporation, ckendall@tnw-rr.com

October 19, 2017