It's a unseasonably warm winter day in Northern Indiana and it's a great day for rail grinding as a brand new (built 10/11) Loram grinder works east on the old Nickel Plate Road.

Tied down in Westward Siding for the night, Loram's "Railgrinder 319" undergoes numerous repairs from a long day of grinding along the former C&O mainline.

The Loram rail grinder sits at the intersection of York and Irving Park Road, in Bensenville.

A Loram rail grinder makes its way south on CP's C&M Sub, approaching Tower B-17 and Bensenville Yard.

Loram rail grinder sits in the back track at Portage.

After a day of work the the Loram railgrinder takes a rest as a worker prepares to set the derail ahead of the units.

After spending most of the day working main track 3 between North Salt Lake and Salt Lake City, a Loram Rail Grinder slowly makes its way through Grant Tower, bound for Roper Yard to tie it down.

A Loram rail grinder douses sparks it left on its first pass of the big trestle at Ludlow.

The Loram crew prepares RG 318 for an overnight stay in Alderson, as Q303 heads West just after sundown.

Parked on a small siding behind Northern Pride Inc., a turkey processing facility, is one of Loram's L-Series light rail grinders - LRG 24. This particular set of grinding machinery is equiped wit... (more)

A light rain falls as a Loram rail grinder waits patiently to get back to work on the Pittsburgh Line. The grinder is stuffed into the spur for the Tribune-Democrat's newsprint warehouse next to t... (more)

The giant sleeps today. With the ability to dig 16 inches down, move 2000 tons of material per hour while traveling at working speeds of 2 m.p.h. and weighing in at a large 406,000 lbs. not to m... (more)

After a long winter of rock build-up that falls off the ore cars when loading and transporting the stuff lands between the rails and CN calls in the Loram RailVac to take care of the situation and... (more)

Basking in the morning sun, Loram's RG 318 awaits a day of grinding on the James River Subdivision.