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PTI Forest
Products By Rail - Project
Management
PTI has assisted large
landowners and government agencies transport large
volumes of logs long distances, helping them
realize value that other wise wouldn't be
recoverable. The projects generally relate to
natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes,
and droughts.
PTI has performed
other projects relating to the conversion of
railcars for log use such as building and adding
log bunks and tie downs.
Assistance offered
includes:
Consulting and
advising on locating transload locations, RR
contacts, finding customers
Negotiating rail
rates and routes with the RR's
Providing equipment
such a railcars, log handling equipment
Full service
transload and transportation
PTI has performed
many projects from which to draw experience. The
most notable project was the transportation of logs
from trees killed in Arizona's Rodeo-Chediski
forest fire in 2003. 3,120 rail cars of logs were
transported via unit trains from Arizona to
Northern California over the span of 4 months.
Assets utilized included over 500 log rail cars,
two log yards, 4 log shovels and 3 988 log loaders.
Paneltech hired and managed all the employees
necessary to set up many of the log cars, and once
operations started, to unload the log trucks, stack
the logs, and load the railcars.
Log
truck, loader and railcars at Globe,
Arizona 2003
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