Newsletter: Summer 2026
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Risk Mitigation
When Heat, Heavy Cars, and Aging Track Converge
For regional railroads, the greatest threat during the summer and fall may not be a derailment, a track buckling, or a bridge restriction. It may be the chain reaction that follows.
Risks
Railroads have always dealt with infrastructure challenges. Heat causes rail expansion.
Risk Mitigation
From Emergency Response to Track Rehab Cranemasters Helps Keep Your Lines Open
Heat-related track issues, aging infrastructure, severe weather, equipment failures, and derailments remain unavoidable realities of rail operations.
CASE STUDY
Planning. Preparation. Precision.
Cranemasters was called on by three railroads to replace one 2×2 double-double diamond and one 2×3 triple-double diamond during a single curfew.
Challenge: Replace Two Diamond Crossings During One Outage
Key Contributor Profile
Innovation Driven by Real-World Challenges
As Cranemasters continues to grow, so does its commitment to engineering innovation and developing practical solutions for the railroad industry.
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Executive POV
A Conversation with Barry Isringhausen
We sat down with Barry Isringhausen, President and Co-Founder of Cranemasters, for a candid conversation about leadership, safety, innovation, and what it takes to keep railroads moving…