CSX maintenance of way and LORAM crews grind #2 track near Martinsburg, WV.

This LORAM rail grinder is cleaning up a few rough spots near Machens, Missouri in the late afternoon sun. They were friendly guys, but at the time I was careful not to get too close, as not to g... (more)

Crews fill the Rail Grinder up with Water as it sits in the siding track at KC Junction.

On a beautiful fall day, a specialty grinder cools its 24 grinding stones in the siding at Roanoke. This particular type of LORAM Grinder is used on switches and crossings.

RG 316 spent most of the day working the wye at Adolph, MN where the former DMIR main from Proctor to the Iron Range connects to the former Interstate Branch, now used as part of CN's Mainline int... (more)

A Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner works the CN Rainy Sub main slowly through Virginia, MN churning away at a steady 1.5 M.P.H. while moving rock and debris through the machine and leaving clean scr... (more)

A Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner works the CN Rainy Sub main slowly through Virginia, MN slogging away at steady 1.5 M.P.H. moving up to 2,000 tons per hours of material as one crewman from Loram ... (more)

One of Loram's finest, rolls through Galesburg, Illinois.

Loram DC2 is part of the ballast-cleaning rig; this is the unit that moves the rig along the right of way. Here it's parked at Queensgate Yard, having worked on the CSX.

The Loram ballast cleaner sits at the end of the Salisbury Sub awaiting the crew for another night's work.

After grinding rail all day along the CN Missabe Sub, Loram RG316 and crew have now stopped grinding and pulled up to clear the nearest road crossing so as to let the support crews of water trucks... (more)

A CSX employee surveys the freshly cleaned ditch from the caboose as the Loram Ditch Cleaner heads west past McDonald Steel and Larry's Truck and Electric.

Loram Rail Grinder RG 319 sits on the IMS track at Lacolle while employees are performing maintenance.

LORAM RGS-7 and RGS-8 have just tied down at the west end of the Westward Siding in St. Albans on a chilly November night. The two rail switch grinders are linked together as part of an experimen... (more)

The dust settles for a moment while Ballast Cleaner No. 2402 stops work to cross a couple grade crossings before proceeding with its duties... This truly is an amazing machine, and a must see liv... (more)