A read
er alerted me to the amazing Grand Forks Herald story:
About six years ago, R&R Contracting, a Grand Forks builder of
railroad infrastructure, was looking for its next opportunity after the
recent ethanol boom.
“When that thing started dying out, we said, ‘What’s next?’” said Mark Reimer with R&R.
The next big thing turned out to be pretty big. And it was two things.
As
North Dakota’s two primary economic engines of energy and agriculture
picked up steam, R&R found itself in the middle of a rail shipping
boom for oil and agricultural products.
And as the twin
booms have lifted North Dakota’s economy, they have helped make R&R
the seventh-biggest railroad construction and design company in the
country, a status they just learned about last year, to their pleasure.
Agriculture, crude oil, rail. Warren Buffett is smiling today.
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