Rick Johnson

Rick Johnson grew up in a very pioneering family in Western Washington where he learned early to apply his mechanical genius repairing machinery.

He joined the Navy and while stationed on the USS Constellation, he learned machining and fabrication. After the Navy he designed and built gold mining equipment throughout the United States and Canada.

Rick has been extremely successful in all his endeavors. His focus on Rail Equipment and attachments such as the Rail X machine and Roto Gripp Bucket™ are masterful engineering feats.

Wendell Malmberg

Wendell Malmberg started with a pickup truck and portable welder doing on-site fabrication for various construction companies in the greater Puget Sound area. During the early years Wendell focused his interests in providing fabricated structural steel.

In 1989 Wendell began developing a broad line of Excavator Attachments. Wendell has become one of the industry’s most accomplished factory direct and retrofit designers that is known worldwide for his innovation.

Advanced Rail Concepts was formed after a joint project between Rick and Wendell. Their combined abilities have produced the most up to date Rail Working Machine and attachments in the industry.