Chartered in 1974, RFC is an Oregon based company working in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Northern California. Rick Franklin Corporation (RFC) is an Oregon Corporation, chartered in 1978. The Company’s activities consist of heavy equipment construction for private and corporate business. Rick Franklin started the business in 1974 as a sole proprietor with one D-8 Caterpillar. Over the intervening
years he has grown the business considerably and used RFC as a springboard to expand into a variety of other enterprises including the purchase of wood yards, a metals recycling subsidiary and, in 2007, a short-line railroad. Presently the company operates over 100 pieces of rolling stock, as well as 150 pieces of heavy equipment. Over the years RFC has diversified its operations to include variety of services including:
• Land clearing and timber access road building
• Railroad Emergency Services: for derailments and other service interruptions
• Hazardous Waste and Environmental Cleanup
• Site Restoration
• Commodity trans-load and re-load
• Rail car salvage and dismantling
• Metals recycling
• Track construction and rehabilitation
• Flatcar bridge sales including concrete abutments
• Fuels (wood) processing
• Quarry operations
• Heavy haul trucking
