Loram Rail Grinder Shooting Sparks & Setting Fires 

I never knew these machines existed. Nice to see they come back and put out the fires :)

With or without grinding, these trains are great night photography subjects with all their work lights.

I work in an industrial plant and get to see these come by every now and then, this is very nostalgic thank you

LORAM headquarters and factory is a few miles from my house. Cool to see them in action across the country.

great video - what's missing is an overhead heli shot of the process. looks like a giant caterpillar on fire moving along the right of way.

In the St. Paul, MN area I have seen the water train precede the grinder. All the nearby brush was wet before the grinder went through. No fires occurred when this practice was employed.

That train is fire! literally

OH MY GOD THAT REALLY IS THE TRAIN FROM HELL! good thing there are men at the back of the train with hoses and at 2:38 the guy driving this metal monster said "go back! we messed up!"

I must say those are some nice crossing bells at 3:05

Huh, I wouldn't have expected them to keep grinding through the crossing....

5:33 ......when ya gotta pee, might as well make it useful

I bought my house about 3 years ago and it sits about 1k ft from a crossing. I got to see one of these bad boys in action about 2 years ago. No fires to note, but the noise the make is unreal b

I was curious I just saw one of these outside my house doing this and I thought it was a trains breaks catching fire had no clue this was normal until I one of these things with the loram sign on it figured I'd Google it they and find out what it was.. They managed to freak out the entire neighborhood lmao

I saw one roll past my house in Sacramento last night, lit up like a Roman candle! Had no clue what it was. Thanks for posting!

thats one way to stop weeds from growing

Great catch!! Awesome to see them reverse to extinguish the blaze.

Would of been nice to see a shot of the ground rail.

Nice catch I caught the aftermath of a train setting sparks and fires started where I live

got to love those crossing bells

It's rare when you see these

I see your A Norfolk Southern and CSX fan welp buddy I'm a Norfolk Southern and CSX fan too 😁💚

A lot of other videos I have seen of these always have them spray water around the tracks as to not have fires in the first place. Why wasn't this one doing that? The light bit of rain in the air surely doesn't seem all that sufficient.

I used to work for Speno Rail Grinding and by the way the sparks are flying some of their fire guards need worked on or the grinding motors need to be reset to the proper angle.

Instead of having the grinder having to back up to put out fires it would be more productive to follow the grinder with a remote controlled genset, 3 water tank cars and 2 spray nozzles. The workers who now ride on the grinder assembly would ride on the genset unit and they would be replaced on the grinder train by two infrared cameras that control automated spray heads.

Coolest train Ive ever seen I think. Itd be neat to hear an explanation of how it works

First time I saw one of these it was parked, didn't know what it was. Strange looking locomotive pulling tank cars and a bunch of bombed out locomotives.

One of these has been parked in the middle of my town for a few days. Wondered what it was. Pretty cool. A loud machine

The Hoses weren't set properly. They are suppose to have 6 hoses going. 2 for the rail, another 2 that would hit the outer sides of the rail. and then 2 at a fan spraying further out to hit brush and wood line. I only saw 2 going that was hitting the rail only.

what do these even do to the track?

Wow! That's crazy! Luckily someone saw that fire starting, so they could reverse and put it out...

I remember being a kid and this happened a few miles away but i didnt realize it was from a grinder

Won't touch Robert Lee Arnold Jr in Georgia State

Wow, that's really cool.

I love the bell sounds and horn sounds... 😍 had an experience before, those horns sound like crazy elephant... amazingly creepy

I have put out a lot of smokers riding those machines lol. Good times!

THAT is a Loram grinder video! Others I warched a few minutes ago about the Loram train, are just grunpsdts. In order to see the grinder doing its work, it's useful to watch it in the dark, or somewhere thereabout The newer model grinders don't throw as much dust during operation, as the old ones.

Great catch. Thanks for standing in for us. Well worth the wait for that display.

I Love how the trains are All lit up at night looks so cool

I freaking love this train!

Great shot of this bad boy at night. I"ve caught this thing in Norfolk a couple of times and it is something to watch. Subbed your Channel .. I have lots of videos of NS on the Norfolk District and some CSX from Portsmouth and A line

Haha, that's MY old machine!

Kool Video Of The Rail Grinder I Caught one in Action Today In Austell,Ga.

Do they know they start fires? Do they have someone to come along and put them out? Or do they just go out?

Welcome to Georgia State

Very good video, probably one of the best I've seen of this train

@5:39 wtffff 😂 thas dope never heard of or seen anything like this but its dope 😆

Can someone explain what is happening?

At 5:15 that echo though!!!!

At the very end it looked like there was a fire truck coming to put out that fire. That horn is awesome!

Loved the intro reminded me of the I love toy trains series

I'm looking at one now Parked up my job

We have multiple CSX and NS lines going through from Chicago to points east so we see a Loram go through enroute to other assignments. Apparently the local MoW crews don't know they're going to be grinding in the area until they're just....there! Be nice to get advance notice if the grinding will happen at night.

The Rail Grinder was here where I live

we dont have that fence where i drive lol

First video I've seen where they seem to be using the blue warning beacon light on the front of the loco instead of the yellow (or neither)

Chad locomotive

4:44 Holy Crap!

This rail grinder can grind the tracks and put out fires!?! Incredible!

How did they know there was a fire? Do they go back over the line they grind?

Think it set off a fire in my town last night saw some fire trucks going towards it on my way home from seeing it its on my channel

Yeah... I know you keep that can of gas with you. I blame you lol. Anyway, nice video I have yet to see a rail grinder in action in person.

You should have brought marshmallows to make smores XD

the water boys should have their on set up and stay back a mile or two so to eliminate the back tracking that way the fire has time to start and they can hose it down. keep the grinder going

We can't do that in California in the summer. We would burn up!

The guys spraying the water always look a bit slack and bored .

Why aren't the water tankers spraying as they pass the first time

Wow! Never seen this before! No idea they do this!

I would love to work for those guys......

These machines seem to patrol the CN and CP in northern Ontario in winter.

These things are worth stopping and watching as they pass by.

this train looks like something from unreal tournament

Anyone with a big brain willing to explain what’s going on here? I get it’s grinding the rail, but why? Was it possibly an old rail that was rusted?

Anyone know why they don't grind the intersections and crossings? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Station 1060 rail grinder do not water down the line at night if a flame does occurs as you see the rail is returned and extinguished the flare. The only reason to water the rail in the day time is simply because it’s harder to see a ridge flare (side fire at the track site) the rails need ground dry the reason for this is usually due to track less traveled and it begins to rust.

Want to have some fun , put in a full shift as a mobile heavy equipment diesel mechanic and then have your boss tell you you have to go and wait for this massive machine to perform maintenance on it at night . They normally sent me all alone with this beast being parked on a RR siding while high speed trains are going by . Mind you, this stuff is real hot when you work on it , nice in the winter not so much in the summer . Then all the work has to all be done by the time the next crew comes to get going in the morning or you will be going along for the ride . The pulleys on these diesel engines always wore out from all the abrasive dust from the several hundreds of grinding wheels making dust . The ones I worked on back then (I am retired now ) had four 12 cylinder 2300 cubic inch diesel engines turning generators at 1800 rpm. At the time I was told by the maintenance crew there were 800 grinding wheels on this particular unit they had to check and replace them as necessary . It is one awesome piece of engineering I will have to say and I bet they are even much better now . Talk about getting filthy dirty though , it was like a graphite dust and you had to scrub yourself damn near raw with a brush to get clean . I truthfully don't miss that kinda stress . And people wonder why I get so pissed when these clueless useless people say .....I am an F'en privileged white male . THEY CAN KISS MY CABOOSE .

Very interesting. Thank you.

I hate this train.

seems like it would be easier to spot a fire with less lights.

Nice video

How did they know to come back and mop up that fire? did you report it or something?

Smokey the bear would be proud

At least they put out the fire

Why do they spark?

I saw that grind railer thing I saw it stoped

I love this thing.

Good job, Conductor.

this is soooo relaxing to watch

what does the rail grinder actually do?!

cleans up his mess to" dat a good boy,,

Are those supposed to spark? Please comment me back

Neat catch!!

Maybe they ought to find a less destructive way to do the job...

The amount of grinding going on you would think there would not be much rail left.

OK, so why do these trains throw so many sparks? Are the wheels dragging or something? Strange!

Engineer is gonna get FIRED for setting them...huh??...get it....???

why was the wheels so sparkish?

Untouchable in georgia state notice it stops and backs the fuck up when robert e lee shows up

Pretty sure Sherman had these in use throughout the South in the 1860’s. Cool video. I’m in Augusta often and recognize many of these spots.

Railborne ufos

Shitty system