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Red River Valley & Western Railroad

Car Repair

WeldingRRV&W has a fully equipped car repair facility in Breckenridge, Minnesota. Our facility is equipped to handle light and medium repairs to grain cars and many other types of freight cars.

 

For quotes on conducting contract repair on your rail cars, contact RRV&W at the number or address below.

RRV&W will bid on work to repair or upgrade your entire fleet, or will repair individual cars damaged in our service region.


Service Capacity BuildingOur spacious service facilities enable us to give careful attention to your equipment. We can service many pieces of equipment simultaneously. These safe and spacious working conditions are designed to produce the best result for our customers and our technicians who bring life back to rail cars, saving resources, time, and money.

Brake TestOur technicians are trained to meet your needs and produce a quality product. We work to insure that your repairs are done in such a way that you will consider us as your ongoing source for your car repair needs.

 

Safety Repair





We use state-of-the-art safety equipment to insure that the work is done with excellence and care.

Our goal is that your equipment be repaired to industry standards with maximum care and professionalism.

Dave VolkContact Dave Volk, the Manager in our Carshop Department
(218) 643-8525
1933 354th Street
Breckenridge, MN  56520

Other Services

  • Tariff Schedule
    Click HERE to obtain a PDF copy of our most recent Tariff schedule.
  • Property Leases:
    RRV&W can lease station grounds and other railroad property to freight customers and other business interests to help you grow your operations.  Contact Denise Prchal or Dan Zink  at (701) 642-8257  for application forms, or for questions about leasing railroad property.
  • Industrial Development
    RRV&W is eager to help existing and new customers grow their business operations.  We can help by providing suggestions for plant sitting on or off railroad property, by working with area utility companies who provide services, offering expertise on track construction, and other services which will help our business grow by helping your business grow.  Give us a call  at (701) 642-8257 to discuss how RRV&W can help your business location or expansion needs.
  • Demurrage Calendar
    Click HERE for our calendar. This demurrage chart applies to all freight cars actually or constructively placed for loading or unloading and is based on tariff rules in effect at time of issuance.  Applicable tariff revisions, special contract provisions or ICC Service orders must be taken into consideration.

    Freight Program

  • Purpose:
    To enhance the efficiency of local traffic and to ensure the timely fulfillment of local car orders.

  • Origins: All stations on the RRVW.

  • Destinations: All stations on the RRVW as listed.  Cargill, Wahpeton, ND: Red River Grain, Breckenridge, MN: MinnKota Ag Products, Breckenridge, MN: CHS, Kindred, ND; Sigco, Breckenridge, MN; Horizon Milling, Fairmount, ND, & Bernard Station, ND.

  • Procedure: Orders will be accepted by the destination facility only.    The number of car orders accepted will be based on want date and  shipping history, when demand exceeds supply.

    • Orders must be faxed to 218-643-4980 (RRVW to provide form). 
    • Click here to open or download a Word fill-in form.

    • Click here for a PDF form to print and fill in manually.

    • Orders must include want date and origin.

    • Orders must be received by the specific dates. Click HERE to see the calendar.

    • Confirmation with car order # will be sent back to customer via fax.

    • All local freight orders that are unfilled 20 days after want date will be terminated. (see above schedule)

    • ALL OTHER RULES AND ACCESSORIAL CHARGES (car order cancellation, demurrage, return of loaded cars, etc) AS OUTLINED IN OUR TARIFF, RRVW 8000-A WILL APPLY.