Regina – Ryan Foss of Falcon Equipment was staffing one of the booths at the SIMSA Oil and Gas Supply Chain Forum, promoting his company’s rail equipment.
“I specialize with the rail car mover segment of our market. We provide rail car movers to any customers that are going to have a large fleet of rail cars they need to shuffle around their sites,” he said on Oct. 3, listing off a number of potash, grain and refinery companies.
“They’re all going to use rail car movers on their site, and we provide those,” he said.
Before the oil downturn hit five years ago, there was a substantial build out of crude-by-rail facilities in Saskatchewan. Crude-by-rail is making a comeback in Canada. Asked if that’s what they are targeting, he said, “Absolutely. Anyone whose got any number of rail cars they need to move and fill, we do try to have a solution to fill all those voids so if it does pick up again and those sites start producing, absolutely, that’s a market we’ll be tackling.”
Falcon is the dealer for two brands, Boss rail car movers and Tractive Power switching rail car locomotives. They also provide some maintenance-of-way equipment, boom trucks, and related items. In Western Canada, they are an outfitter and dealer for Palfinger cranes.
They have a high concentration of customers in the Edmonton area, Foss said.
“Saskatchewan’s sitting on a virtual nestegg of natural resources, including oil and gas. It’s a huge market potential for us to just keep growing and providing equipment in this marketplace.
“We’re just very proud to be included in the show. We’re proud to do business in Saskatchewan. We have a location right here in Regina and provide mobile service all over the province.”
