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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
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Railcar Unloading Facilities in Gonzales, Texas

TGB Group providing consulting and design services

TGB Group was selected to design railcar unloading facilities including a track and an unloading pit for a national feed company. The firm is locating a new production and distribution center in Gonzales, Texas, about 125 miles west of Houston.

Railcar unloading facilities to handle cattle feed components

Our team provided conceptual design drawings for the Texas, Gonzales and Northern Railway that helped to bring this customer to Gonzales. Now we’re in the process of providing consulting and design services for their track, drainage system and unloading pit. As part of the railcar unloading facilities, these areas will be used to bring in cattle feed components by railcar and trucks for blending, packaging and distribution in the region.

We are also assisting this client with site-development services that include drainage plans to keep stormwater away from buildings and roadways at the site. We’re using AutoTurn software to develop routes though out the property that allow trucks to efficiently enter, load/unload and exit. When completed, the railcar unloading facilities will allow the client to increase operational efficiency and revenue.

A little history of Gonzales, Texas, from Wikipedia.

Gonzales was the site of the first skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In 1831, the Mexican Government gave the town a small cannon for protection against Indian attacks. At the outbreak of disputes between the Anglo settlers and the Mexican authorities in 1835, a contingent of more than 100 Mexican soldiers was sent from San Antonio to retrieve the cannon.

When the soldiers arrived, there were only 18 men in Gonzales, but they refused to return the cannon, and soon men from the surrounding area joined them. Texians, as they were known, under the command of John Henry Moore confronted them. Sarah DeWitt and her daughter sewed a flag bearing the likeness of the cannon and the words “Come and Take It,” which was flown when the first shots of Texan independence were fired on October 2, 1835. The Texians successfully resisted the Mexican troops in what became known as the Battle of Gonzales. (From Wikipedia.)

To learn more about this railcar unloading facilities project in Gonzales, Texas, please contact:

Mike Murphy, president, TGB Group: (832) 748-7603

The replica “Come And Take It” flag hanging in the Texas State Capitol.

December 28, 2018
Industrial Park Expansion Makes News in Big Spring

TGB Group provided engineering design and construction management for the project

TGB Group is in the news again – this time in Big Spring, Texas, where the company is providing design and construction management services for a major rail industrial park expansion.

The project, launched by the Big Spring Economic Development Corporation (BSEDC), is big news in this city of approximately 27,000. A July 9, 2018 article on NewsWest9.com based in Midland, Texas, pointed out that the “[railroad] track is the road to expansion for the City of Big Spring.”

The McMahon-Wrinkle Air and Industrial Park expansion will involve laying an additional 8,000 feet of track and extending the main line track to allow access to properties near the park.

In a video and accompanying news article, BSEDC Executive Director Terry Wegman said, “This is a continuation of almost six miles of track that we’ve done over the last several years to accommodate existing business and help attract new business to the airport.”

Services TGB has been responsible for during the expansion at the former WWII airfield include topographic survey and construction staking; complete engineering design; preparation of necessary forms to obtain FAA, air park and railroad approvals; and construction administration. You can read more about this project in an article we wrote in October of last year.

TGB President Mike Murphy, who is overseeing his company’s work on the project, told NewsWest9, “The idea is to bring more customers to Big Spring and make them feel comfortable that we have everybody in the room they need to build their project.”

This is just one of many TGB projects focused on enhancing the economic climate in cities throughout Texas and in nearby states.

July 26, 2018
News on Our Big Spring McMahon Industrial Park Transload Yard Project

Where we are in this multifaceted project

TGB Group has completed surveying and engineering work for the Big Spring Mahon-Wrinkle Industrial Park Transload Yard, a project that began earlier in the year.

We are currently working on the construction of the transload yard with Big Spring Economic Development Corporation. Railworks Track Systems and DIFFCO, LLC were the selected rail and civil contractors for the project for which TGB Group is providing construction management services. So far, we have completed the ditching and surfacing and are beginning to fill the ditches with riprap. TGB team member Logan Ortiz P.E. is performing construction observation duties for the project. He is on-site at the industrial park every week, ensuring that the contractors build everything according to client-approved engineering documents.

Riprap

Riprap is essentially chunks of rock approximately one to two feet in diameter that are used to prevent erosion. Rocks typically used as riprap include granite, limestone and sometimes concrete. Riprap is particularly important to fill ditches near railroad yards to prevent water from eventually eroding the dirt beneath the track. If erosion is allowed to happen, a void will develop within the dirt under the track. As trains pass over this void, the railroad track will bend and “pump” into the dirt. The only way to fix this void is to have a railroad contractor come and fill in the void, which is an expensive and time-consuming process.

Drone Footage

Jake Cooper, TGB’s business development manager, took some drone footage of the construction in the transload yard. The first video is footage for the entire project from the south end, to the north end.

This second video is closer footage from about the middle, to the north end.

To learn more about our work with the Big Spring McMahon Industrial Park Transload Yard, please contact:

Mike Murphy, president, TGB Group: (832) 748-7603

June 24, 2018