Railfanning Oroville, California: January 29, 2009 | Featuring the Loram Railgrinder

Lately Union Pacific has been taking advantage of the slow train traffic by performing some much needed track maintenance in the area and throughout the Feather River Canyon. Here is some good late afternoon footage of some of that track work being performed. First, a loaded ballast train with GE C45ACCTE #7788 and GE C45ACCTE #5285 leading gets a clear signal and permission from the dispatcher to proceed out of the yard and up the mainline toward the canyon. Upon departure of Oroville, the crew is surprised with slow order limits given to a Loram rail grinder, just up the line, and the train is brought slowly by over the freshly ground rail inside the work limits of the rail grinder. Moments later, an eastbound double stack is heard highballing through town, and the dispatcher clears the work limits to get the hot intermodal by. Shortly after the double stack clears the grinder, dispatch gives a new set of limits to the grinder to get back on the main to head into town to finish up the day's work.

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[irishmanO1]

great video 5/5

[Ponchomty]

excelent videos George!!

[Railhead1956]

Nice vid

[sp4294]

Good video. A saw that railgrinder a few weeks ago while a friend and I were railfanning up near Mt. Shasta, and then again a few days later near Red Bluff.

[larry84988]

Good job George, nice catch with the railgrinder.

[wle200]

Awesome Video!

[NSwannabeEngineer]

Cool. :)