Suppliers of Quality Rail Products

Welcome to the Chafin Track Web Site.  Chafin Track specializes in rail products for the mining industry. We buy and sell Steel Tee Rail in all different sizes with a heavy emphasis on but not limited to 60lb, 85lb, 100lb and 115lb ASCE. We sell and buy every type of steel rail imaginable.  We have available a large stock of rail bolts, relay rail, new rail, reroll.  We are always looking for scrap rail and quality used rail.  Fill out one of our forms to request information on our current inventory or to offer us an opportunity to bid on rail items of interest. We would like to start business relationships with organizations across the world.  Our interest include railroad contractors, salvage yards,  coal mines and basically any company that has anything to do with train track, steel rail, fastners, bolts, ties, switches, prefabricated rail packages, you name it if it has to do with the the steel rail industry we want to take part. If you sell or buy railroad track please contact us. Our web site has many features that make it more than just a brochure about Chafin Track.  You can request quotes, submit inventory for sale, register to become a Chafin Track vendor or customer, and use our catalog and substantial reference guides to identify parts.  The newest feature to our site is our online attendent.  Mike is usually online and can help you find what you are looking for as well as being a wealth of information on industry and the Internet. Please browse through the web site and contact us at  chafintrack@aol.com with any suggestions on how we can serve you our customers and vendors better. Chafin Track proudly supports "The Friends of Coal Program" here is a small amount of info about coal and our energy needs.  The U.S. has a surfeit of coal. On a percentage basis, the U.S. has more coal than Saudi Arabia has oil. The U.S. sits atop some 242 billion tons of coal, about 28.6 percent of the world’s coal. At current rates of extraction, the U.S. supply could last 234 years. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, sits astride a mere 21.3 percent of the world’s oil, and at current rates of extraction will run out in about 69 years. Despite increasing rhetoric about the need for “energy independence” and the rush to build more electric cars in order to fight the scourge of foreign oil, regulators at the state and federal level have imposed a near-total ban on new coalfired power plants in the U.S. And they are doing so despite steadily increasing electricity demand. In 2007, electricity consumption grew by 2.3 percent over 2006 levels and that rate of growth has been fairly consistent over the past decade. Coalfired power plants now provide almost half of this country’s electricity. From a cost perspective, it would make sense for the U.S. to continue building more coal plants, particularly if they have scrubbers to reduce their emissions of mercury, sulfur compounds, and other pollutants. But concerns about global warming have largely derailed coal plants. All of which raises the obvious question: If not coal, then what? Over the coming decade, the North American Electric Reliability Council expects demand to continue growing, with the U.S. needing an additional 135,000 megawatts of new generation capacity. But the Council projects that resources committed to meeting that demand are only expected to “increase by roughly 8.5 percent 77,000 MW.” The report goes on to warn that unless new power plants are built, or demand reductions are put in place, “California, the Rocky Mountain states, New England, Texas, the Southwest and the Midwest could fall below their target capacity margins within two or three years.”   More info on coal, it's positives and negatives can be found at http://friendsofcoal.org .

ATTENTION SUPPLIERS AND OWNERS OF SCRAP AND RELAY RAIL!

CHAFIN TRACK IS CURRENTLY PAYING CASH FOR ANY SCRAP RAIL AVAILABLE.  IF YOU HAVE SCRAP OR RELAY AVAILABLE PLEASE CONTACT US MIKE@URE.net.

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