A Different Daily Grind! Sparks are flying and smoke is billowing as Loram RG32 makes its way down the Brighton Line of the NYC Subway! The low-profile grinder, which I'd guess was desig... (more)

A Loram Rail Grinder puts on a light (and noise) show for the residents of Tacoma and Ruston, at the site of the form Asarco Smelter. Tunnel #1, just under 400' long, is the lesser known tunnel i... (more)

Keeping pace with a rail grinder ahead of it, this Loram Cross Grinder stays back at a safe distance grinding crossings and switches. Here it takes the curve at Broughton before grinding the swit... (more)

Kicking up some sparks, the crew is working hard to finish a section of track before they've got to take the siding for two trains to pass.

Tied down in the Westward Siding west of St. Albans, a Loram-operated ballast cleaner is silhouetted by the headlights of a westbound empty coal train on the heels of Amtrak's Cardinal No. ... (more)

The newest of Loram's 420 series Rail Grinders is working the BNSF Seattle sub in the Tacoma area. This is the RG421, configured with 3 grinding cars, 2 - 75,000 gal water cars , a tool/crew car,... (more)

Unexpected surprise. The LORAM Shoulder Ballast Cleaner (MoW) train heads west on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch at 1512 at Leidigh Park.

A Loram Maintenance of Way DC-5 Badger ditch cleaner caboose shoving around the curve at milepost 112.

All we could see above the treetops was a huge cloud of smoke, and there was no advance notice that there was a rail grinder out there today. Shown here, a Loram Railgrinder heads west across the ... (more)

Bringing up the rear of the Loram Rail Grinder is a caboose with fire fighting equipment to suppress fires that may arise from the sparks generated by the rail grinding operation.

A Loram Rail Grinder works its way through Otego, NY

A slight sprinkle of rain falls as Loram grinds away sending sparks flying off the to the side. This was the first grinding of the newly laid ribbon rail from almost a year ago on the CSX Bowline ... (more)