Work train
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A work train or departmental train (engineering train in the UK) is one or more rail cars intended for internal non-revenue use by the railroad's operator. Work trains serve functions such as track maintenance, maintenance of way, revenue collection, system cleanup and waste removal, heavy duty hauling, and crew member transport.
Types of work trains[]
- Locomotives and cab units
- Track maintenance equipment (track geometry cars, ballast regulators, ballast tamper cars, ballast cleaners, stoneblowers, rail grinders, Sperry rail cars, ballast loaders/removers, hopper cars, continuous welded rail handlers, weld cars, track renewal train)
- (reach cars, pump cars, hose cars)
- Snow removal cars
- Rail inspection cars
- Rail adhesion cars
- Crane cars
- Flatbed cars
- Tanker cars
- Revenue collection cars
- Sweeper Cleaner
- Rail bridge inspection
- Weed spray rail
- Bush cutter rail
- Excavator rail
Gallery[]
A Washington Metro work car in Virginia providing support for a track maintenance operation
Ballast tamping machine as used in railroad track maintenance in Florida
A New York City Subway work train
work train at the construction of a freight line in Sydney, Australia
work train in East Side Access cavern under construction in New York City
See also[]
- List of railway vehicles
- Non-revenue cars
- Plasser & Theurer
- Rail inspection
- Track renewal train
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