Just a note to let people know CSX has a loram railgrinder working in Deshler this weekend.please be careful.
stay safe
Joe
What is a loram railgrinder?
a train that grinds the rails well,it not really a train can somebody decribe it because I can’t
kevin
Its a peice of MoW equipment which has these grinders on the bottum of it which grinds the tracks to make sure they are smooth. As you can see, there are many different types of rail grinders. (Photos on Bottum)
(Photos from http://www.northeast.railfan.net/mow18.html)
The railgrinder that JoeKoh mentions has been working it’s way West from Philadelphia for the past two months…grinding as it goes. Most of the grinding has been done at night in order to better see and combat the fires that the sparks from grinding are capable of starting (and they started a number of them in the Baltimore/Washington area when the equipment was griding during daylight hours).