What's New at bo-mar

Yesterday bo-mar’s Vice President Mark and his wife Jill celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary! We thought we’d use this opportunity to post some wedding pictures from 1980. Enjoy!! Can you believe these two have made it through 32 years of marriage and 20 years of working at bo-mar together?! Congratulations to them!

A couple weeks ago, our Administrative Assistant, Nicole, brought in some old pictures of her grandpa and his race cars.  We thought we’d be unbiased this week and feature some pictures of a Chevy instead of a Ford (Don’t tell Mark!)  Here is Nicole’s grandpa and his ’57 Chevy Bel-Air back in the late ’50s:

Name: Bo Hometown: Biloxi, MS/Indianapolis, IN Area of Specialty: President Other job experience: Amtrak engineer How did you find yourself starting bo-mar? [There was an] opportunity to follow a project that left Amtrak and went to Hornell, New York Favorite part about owning bo-mar: Making really cool stuff Any funny memories/stories about bo-mar? We almost…

In honor of the first race of the IndyCar Series coming up this weekend, we have a picture of Bo, Mark, their friend Dave, and Mark & Dave’s oldest daughters. In 1983, Bo, Mark, and Dave went in together to purchase this IndyCar. The guys had no plans to race the car, but they all…

Last week, we sent out a project for our customer, Railplan.  bo-mar fabricated a prototype kitchen for the newly remodeled 8400 Viewliner dining car.  The car has been in service since 2011 and has been met with great reviews from Amtrak and their patrons.  We are now building 25 additional car sets for the next…

We got ourselves a new scanner this week, so we have lots of fun pictures for the upcoming Flashback Fridays! This week, with the weather so nice, and the thought of spring just around the corner, we thought we’d share this picture of Bo and Mark feeding a flock of ducks. Of course, we don’t…

While our pictures this week aren’t very old, they are technically still a ‘flashback.’  This time last year, Mark was down in Gainesville, Florida for the NHRA Gator Nationals.  Last year was important because Clayton Harris, the crew chief Mark worked under during the late ’90s, was honored with an induction into the International Drag…

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve completed two projects for some guys you may have heard of: Singer-songwriter/Actor Harry Connick Jr. and 2009 NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car World Champion Robert Hight!   This season, Harry Connick Jr. has guest-starred on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.  In an upcoming episode, Harry Connick…

About six and a half years ago, the Indianapolis Business Journal featured an article on bo-mar.  The author was certainly correct when she mentioned “only growth on the horizon.”  We are very blessed that we’re continuing to succeed 20 years after starting the business.   Since the article was written, we’re up from 32 employees to…

We asked our employees to fill out a fun (optional) survey for the blog.  We’re still waiting to hear back from more of them, but we thought we’d start posting the few we have now.  Enjoy our first Employee Profile!   Name: Luci Hometown: Valparaiso, IN Area of Specialty at bo-mar: Purchasing/New Order Entry Employed…