Volume 44 - Issue 19 - May 8, 2025

(Published in the Kansas Register May 8, 2025.)

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 remove and replace approximately 9,500 cross ties (7” x 9” X 8’-6”) on the main track located within six (6) segments between Attica, Kansas and Medicine Lodge, Kansas (MP 0.0 and MP 22.0), at the rate of approximately 1,000 ties per mile (KDOT Project No. RA-8057-01).

Removal and replacement of three (3) main line 115RE No. 10 RBM Packaged Pre-Plated turnouts in the west end of the Medicine Lodge yard that are also included in this Request for Proposals.

Included in this project is the ballast regulating, tamping, surfacing, and alignment for the remaining 11.5-mile main line segments outside of the cross-tie renewal locations between MP 0.0 and MP 20.0

The replacement cross ties, spikes, tie plugs casualty rail, and OTM will be furnished by VSR. The VSR main line is predominately 112 lb/yd CWR east of MP 12.9 and 112 lb/yd jointed rail west of MP 12.9 with scattered segments of 90 lb/yd and 115 lb/yd rail.

Proposals/bids are due June 6, 2025.

Copies of the Request for Proposals may be obtained by contacting Ed Landreth, a contractor to the VSR and the designated VSR Project Manager for this project at phone number 505-239-9915 or via email at EWLandreth@aol.com.

VSR reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive technicalities.

Ed Landreth
Project Manager
V & S Railway, LLC

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