loram in deshler

JoeKoh

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April 2003
From: Defiance Ohio
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loram in deshler

Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, May 20, 2005 8:34 PM

Just a note to let people know CSX has a loram railgrinder working in Deshler this weekend.please be careful.
stay safe
Joe

Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").

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emmar

Member since
October 2004
From: Washington
409 posts

Posted by emmar on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:14 PM

What is a loram railgrinder?

Yes we call it the Dinky. Why? Well cause it's dinky! Proud to be the official train geek of Princeton University!

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oskar

Member since
August 2003
1,092 posts

Posted by oskar on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:14 PM

a train that grinds the rails well,it not really a train can somebody decribe it because I can't

kevin

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Anonymous

Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:21 PM

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)

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BaltACD

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May 2003
From: US
25,276 posts

Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:00 PM

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).

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

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