Loram Rail Grinder 319, ready's for the night's work on the Southern Pacific Coast line, after the last Amtrak Surfliner of the day clears the main.

It's always fun to watch and listen to some of the impressive machinery railroad use to keep the freight moving in a safe and timely manner. Loram has made a successful business by building, oper... (more)

This beast of a machine has been at work along the Mohawk Subdivision and is currently tied down in the Fonda Yard. The ballast cleaner is used to break up pockets of mud that can cause poor drain... (more)

Some Lorman Rail equipment stages in Selkirk while a CSX SD60 Yard Horse shunts some cars for a train to go down the River Line or B&A. If any one can tell me anything about these Lorman units ple... (more)

With the last rays of the November sun fading quickly, the crew of this rail grinder have parked and shutdown their equipment for the night in the siding just west of Willoughby. The next day, the... (more)

One of the more odd visitors to the BNSF Engine Yard was this LORAM SBC-18 Ballast Cleaner engine and accompanying work cars.

With billowing smoke and sparks a flyin', Loram Rail Grinder 'RG 8' creeps westward at walking speed on the Rio Grande mainline near Mesa on Nov. 12, 1989.

A rail grinder heads west through MacGregor.

Looking like something out of a Mad Max movie, this Loram ballast cleaner train gets ready to move out of the BNSF yard in Denver.

The rail grinder having started at Indian earlier in the day is finished for the night and has stopped to take on water at Potter Creek using good ole gravity to get the job done.

A LORAM rail grinding train waits for the green signal before passing through Palmer Lake

The Ditch Cleaner discards a trail of nasty wet ballast on the opposite side of the tracks as it heads west past Larry's Truck and Electric in McDonald, Ohio.

A Loram rail grinder fresh out of the factory just down the line in Hamel, MN gleams in the morning sun on the siding at Brooten. It's waiting for a crew from Loram to arrive and begin testing be... (more)

Cooling off the roadbed after a heavy grind...