Foster Company,[10] Progress Rail Services, Inc.,[11] and Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc.[12] The NRC holds an annual conference and exhibition each January, taking place alternating between the East and West Coasts and regularly encompassing more than 1,000 attendees with around 100 exhibitors.

Attendees include executives from rail construction contractors, suppliers, and associated professional service firms.

Speakers are generally engineering executives from freight railroads, executives and administrators of public rail transit agencies, and a small number of related experts on topics, such as railroad financial analysis and rail-related federal legislative developments.

The NRC hosts an annual railroad construction and maintenance equipment auction each spring.

In the auction, NRC member companies buy and sell rail construction and maintenance equipment from each other and from railroads that participate.