This Loram Rail Grinder was parked down the road from the house tonight on a siding for the lumber yard & feedmill eh
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I saw one go by, at night, a few years ago. Sparky for sure.
I figured the best(?) job must have been the guy on the fire-hose putting out the hot spots from the rear deck. The worst job might be changing the grinding wheels with all that crusty grinder slag all over the place. Constant hiring ads seen in our regional newspapers when one of these was around.
Would have been cool to see it go down the track. I think they were in the process of changing grinding wheels cause there was a pallet of old ones sitting there eh
I'm familiar with Speno rail grinders but not Loram.
As a young" green " brakeman I was part of a crew in train order territory protecting the work. We had a SW (1300) equipped with some type of special cruise control to keep a steady grinding speed.... Caboose and a full crew ..
The scary part... I had to flag an hot freight , stop him and bring him into the work limits. I had never flagged anything before and I didn't have much time to get out the proper distance , get the torpedoes down and find a spot on straight track where the enginemen could see the my flag from a distance. I can hear him coming in the distance.
Along comes the train. mostly cars of paper and lumber... Guns go off,, Hogger gives 2 on the horn . and most of the train goes by me .
And of course the hogger curses me out for not being out far enough. yep scary at the time.
