Hands-On Management Cements Success for Gillespie Two years ago, Corrado Construction Company of New Castle, Delaware, called Gillespie & Son with an oer the company could easily refuse: manufacturer and deliver 1,500 feet of a large precast trench, and do it in two months. Delaware City Renery was building a crude oil rail unloading facility in order to take advantage of the more economical Bakken shale oil transported by rail from North Dakota. The oil would replace other crude products shipped to the facility by barge. The unloading facility required a 6-ft.-wide by 7-ft.-deep open-top concrete trench alongside the rail tracks to house the 2-ft. diameter unloading header pipe. Railcars would connect to the header pipe inside the trench, which would ow to a massive pump station that w

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