CSX has a Harsco rail grinder train parked just across the street from the Prince Georges County courthouse in Hyattsville, MD. It has been parked there since. When do they operate it? It seemed to have not moved an inch all week.
This is a link to a picture of it, though I can’t seem to turn on the link.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=165468&nseq=6
How’s that work for ya? [:D]
Thanks. The computer I am on right now blocks my posting of active hyperlinks. Unfortunately I can’t turn that off without an act of congress.
Do they usually do the grinding at night? Yesterday there were actually guys on the train, but I could not tell if they were coming or going.
CSX, at least on the Baltimore Division, have the Rail Grainders operating at night for two reasons. Keep them out of the Commuter Trains operations on the Capital, Metropolitan and RF&P Subs. Secondly and more important, when oprating after dark it makes it easier for the Grinder personnel to see fires and hot spots that the grinding operations may have started and extinguish them.
A few summers ago, I got some pictures of a Loram rail-grinding unit operating on CSX’s main near Cartersville, GA. Work was being done on a Tuesday (usually a slow day for that line), and the unit was working on the main at Emerson, GA (south of Cartersville, with a long passing siding that the occasional train could use to bypass the work). At the trailing end of the unit, two guys with hoses were constantly watering down the greenery on the right of way, to keep brushfires from starting.