Maintenance Of Way Parade! What Is This Stuff?! Awesome Powerful Railroad Machines! 

On Tuesday, I am flying out to Ogden Utah to film the Big Boy steam locomotive and chase it for a week.

I love these MOW vehicles. They give a cartoony like feel to the railroad. This whole flotilla or parade of them is so epic and adorable at the same time!

The fact that one or more of the pieces of MOW equipment has a siren and a bullhorn on it is even more bizarre! 😂😂

replacing rail, I saw spike pullers, spike drivers, loose spike picker uppers (big magnetic drum) , the one with the big white tanks was a rail heater, those tanks are propane, the box truck has a rail welding robot in it, the cranes had rail guide rollers. one with the crawler tracks had tanks for epoxy they fill in spike holes in the ties.

Whoever labeled this parade picked the right word... That was interesting!!!! I should have counted them.. THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!

That first house has a great view... kick back with an iced tea and watch the trains go by. I'd retire well in that house.

The white truck is full with food for the workers😋😜

Wow Jawtooth! I really love this! Nice catch! It definitely does look like a CSX parade. Some interesting equipment for maintaining the rails!!

All that horn honking in that parade made me think the equipment should have been decorated, have kids throwing candy to the audience, and the Miss Jawtooth Festival queen and her court doing the royal wave.

I love that Neighborhood! Make.it a Bell only crossing!

There needs to be train simulator mods for this

Very cool! Just saw the rail grinder come thru Friday! Loved the siren!

Yes! The other way! Good job! In reverse I noted a Progress Rail (contractor) logo on the back of the Chemetron (welding products) Box truck.What a show! CSX proving they can engineer stranger things than they inherited.

Wow...great catch...like watching the circus parade.

All those vehicles to replace the rails. Wow. What an operation

CSX knows how to put on a parade! Great catch

I worked for Norfolk Southern MOW before and we had All the same equipment except orange lol God I miss that king of work

Wow JT. Another fine video!!! I saw everything in that parade except the float carrying the MOW queen, waving to the crowd, lol

I wish I could drive that little yellow car😍

That guy up on the porch liked it too

You weren’t kidding! That’s a whole parade of MOW

It's a rail relay and replacement gang. The crew removes old rail and installs new rails on the track. The large off-road crane you saw in the beginning picks up the old rail and tie plates and moves it off to the side. Another big crane identical to it places the new rail onto new tie plates. The machines pull the spikes, another machine carrying heater tanks heat the rail to its maximum heat resistance and it's installed. A van carrying welding equipment and a large welder fuses the end of the rails together.

Gotta love how there's just a regular backhoe loader in there, just with a precise driver

Steel gang, spikers, anchor boxer, rail heater, contractor flash butt welder, couple of hydraulic cranes, cribber/adzer, spike puller, anchor knocker, scrap crane

I have said this before and I will say it again I LOVE your videos Jaw Tooth! I also love the little maintenance vehicle at 5:50

Terex a proud workers of CSX

Lovely maintenance in the way!!!!!!!

I recognised some of these. They deal with track placement, track scanning (I saw what looked like a rail ultrasound machine), spike pullers and sleeper/tie levelling. Looks like they're preparing to fix a stretch of line, hopefully one of the abandoned/disused ones. Very exciting. :)

An even bigger machine convoy came through my town this week. Huge machines!

Awesome powerful railroad machines? looked like support machines, Worked at Maintenance Manufacture for 30 years now. mk4's, 6700's, 3300, Magnum rail grinders, and stoneblowers. Will be losing my job due to re-organization. Good Luck South Carolina- you will need it!!!!

As always Brian -right person in the right place at the right time !!! What a parade dude -love the little drawbar trailers with tools and jackets on ! Some of them like their horn ! You promised a MOW video -as always you havent dissapointed! Some of the machines do look odd - but they've all got a job -gone have some of the back breakers -replaced with " a never complain" machine ! You are one busy man Brian ! Loving it !

One machine pulls the spikes, one machine pulls the ties, one machine inserts the new ties, and one machine replaces the spikes. The rest is for making lunch.

Only thing missing from the MofW Parade is the marching band!

Wow I've never seen any thingn like them, they almost looked like a child's toy, how cute! So fascenating, I saw where some one said what they are and what they do. Too cool!

Well that was incredibly weird!!! Great video-like Shriners on their way to a party somewhere.

every piece of equipment looks different from the next!! come on boys....tighten it up!!

let the parade roll sun.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go....

Never would have thought i would say "This Needs Clowns"

I love a parade

With a few of those horns all you missing is the clown music. Great video

I love a good parade.

its the wacky races in rail form

That's cool. I live near CSX, and the most I see is a couple pickups and regular maintenance.

Nice video Brian, I have no clue what I just saw, I felt like I was watching monsters inc of the railroads or something. I enjoid the parade. pass the hotdogs.

Looks like they're on their way to dig a tunnel.

Damn! These guys are fast! No sononer hit the work spot then they are on their way back home to get a beer or 10.

Its like they headed out to work, then said never mind.

Just think in the olden days before these railroad equipments were made, railroad men had work on the railroad the hard way, with their bare hands.

This’s a most amazing parade'

Do you mean to tell me they didnt have one seat for the Jaw Tooth? Sad. Great action today. Thank you

This was cool i wish I lived there at those tracks keep it up

Each of this machines has a job and what they do is they fix the rails

That was entirely too cool! Those folks in the yellow house have a great ringside seat!

I noticed that white bobtail truck said Progress Rail. I worked there as a quality auditor and system analyst a few years ago.

My favorite type of job!

Have fun can’t wait to see the videos

Thank you very much for sharing my uncle was an engineer on the railroad been a long time since I've been around trains love to watch keep sharing :-)

Jaw Tooth you caught so much MOW equipment in this video you should go around to their head office and apply for the position of official railfan liaison or whatever they call it! They'd probably call it something official! You would get training in railroad safety operations as a bonus! :D

Super to see Brian.just like a parade.thanks. Whe have here Switelsky Plasser en Treuer. because whe are using concrete layers for the rails,no wood.

Hi! Great parade! Like # 635. Good luck!

Thanks for yet another great video! This is right close to my neighborhood!

It makes you wonder what the railroad company is doing sometimes when you see these crazy things on the track

That one flasher malfunctioned; kept going off.

Awesome video, Ive always loved watching the maintenance of way equipment going behind my house. Im lucky enough to live next to the Canadian Pacific Mainline. Thats why l love this video. Ive actually seen equipment like this in behind my house, replacing ties and spikes, very cool to watch

I’ve never seen one of these parades before 😆 but great catch 👍

Cool vid, can't wait to see your Big Boy stuff!

Neadless to say this is the best parade ever ( I originally said headless to say )

I wish the MOW crew would come more often

Very unusual! Thanks!♥️

As CSX is pulling heavier consists, trackage is needing constant work. Trains twice as long with multiple DPU power running at higher speeds is all about profit.

I Love A Parade!! Da da da da done done da da daaaa

I half expected to see Dick Dastardly and Muttley following that lot!!!

Awesome! Love your vids man, Keep it up!

The Case loader tractor looked like he has rail guides on the bucket, but none on the rear. That is why he had to turn around and only go forward. The rear wheels are wide enough to stay on the rails.

That thing's horn sounds like a synthesizer playing a chord.

Wow cool parade , (yawn) I couldn't stand the excitement of them going the other way . Cool video & very interesting equipment

They should do a Christmas parade!

track welding crew

they knew you was there ,lol

You could have used the theme from " Peabody's Improvable History " from " The Bullwinkle Show " as background music!

Great video and you are a cool guy☺

Haha. This is amazing!!👍

Awesome parade!

Very nice footage 😊👍👌

Very nice video documentation.

Great Video. 🇮🇳

Quite an assortment.

You put out great videos.

Thanks for the video. Have a great time out west chasing that GREAT Steam Locomotive.

That was totally awesome. I never seen so many M of W altogether. Enjoyed that. Thanks 👍👍👍❤️😎

My favorite has to be the Terex hi rail crane

I enjoyed that video 👍👍

Surprised the gates went down

CSX recently performed maintenance on the tracks where I live and we had lots of those vehicles around. They did a great job repaving our crossing but not so much the crossings on the hwy.

Awesome horns!

Nice catch JT 👍👍👍😎😎😎

May 6, 2019----Awesome man, awesome. Thanks for the video as I hope to use some of the equipment in a 1/35th scale zombie/apocalypse diorama. Will find more photos of the equipment and hopefully drawings of them. Want to get into 3D printing, using the Anycubic Photon resin printer which I'll be buying in the next few months along with trying to learn how to use CAD. At 66, it ain't easy for this old dog to learn new tricks.Retired now, but many years ago used to drive truck all over the U.S. Was going to take a break because I was tired, then saw a bunch of stuff like this equipment about half a mile away. It had been there awhile and many pieces were rusty. Took a bunch of photos even though never had an interest in trains other than looking at everyone's layouts. Have downloaded 400+ photos of abandoned locomotives, boxcars, train depots, etc. for future zombie/apocalypse dioramas. There is a 1/35th scale model kit of that front loader available. Be interesting to modify it for railroad use. There's a BIG rail yard in Sparks, Nevada and will see if I can shoot (photograph) any equipment that may be there now.

They ought to string some strands of Christmas or patio lights on the vehicles to make it look more like a REAL parade!

Bonsoir Jaw la suite de la vidéo d'hier-soir pour les travaux de maintenance de CSX impressionnant convoi de véhicules de voiries grues camion machine a ballast etc... Le tout dans un grand concert de klaxon ouahouu !!! super Jaw à bientôt et bonnes ballades @ +