Tie Replacement 1

A walk along the tracks in downtown Elmhurst while The Union Pacific Railroads replaces wooden ties. We start just West of York Rd and go about a block West and show some of the equipment in operation. This is right at the Elmhurst METRA station.

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• train
• union
• pacific
• west
• line
• elmhurst
• illinois
• ties
• ballast
• mow
• metra
• right
• of
• way
• maintenance
• roadbed
• tie
• track
• rail
• repair
• work

[hoydog33]

shitty gang... we keep it real on our gang we changed out 300 000 ties this season. #1 in america tw51 cn rail

[ipfeldspar]

I wouldn't know how to compare any two gangs. If I remember the day I shot this... It was a weekend and two of three tracks were live. They kept moving the freight traffic in and out of Proviso, and also handled a regular commuter schedule.

[1xsooliner]

big tie gang nice equipment  nice video

[ipfeldspar]

Thank-You for watching! I just wish I had more time to pick out the details. I sort of rushed through it as the project was across a mile of track and I wanted to "get it all!"

[hoydog33]

@ipfeldspar ya right on... multi track setups slow down production big time.

chooch it!!

[1xsooliner]

spent many a tired days on the gangs lol



[staintedcards]

that was cool dont know what they were doing but it was cool also liked the porta potty on rails freaking funny