2008 A & B Tie Gang Part 1

A Tie Gang in action in northern Alberta. The men on this gang are involved in the removal of decrepited railway ties and their replacement. This gang consists of about a dozen machines and roughly 30 men.

[@robertseemueller6148]

What no fresh ballest and a broom or regulator out front to clean off the top of the timbers so you can see the spikes and creepers?

[@monteglenn3718]

Those r 2 man spike puller y isnt 2 guys in one machine thats how we do it ???

[@FX4Knight]

Nice video I run a Mark 4 and I also run a broom for CN Rail in Ontario.

[@wanderingfido]

Why aren't you replacing the ties with concrete sleepers? The noise level shouldn't matter in that isolated area.

[@roots230]

Fido Lost because of the cost

[@joesmoe4022]

Must be nice pulling 8'6s. Im stuck on a switch tie crew now 😞 His trip is better than the one in stuck on. Mines so old it has an ash tray in it .

[@michaelmethot9760]

Used to do this back in the 80's. A Loram Sled would be winched to a winch car or even a locomotive, would lift the track, smooth the ballast and eject bad ties. A Labe anchor crew would follow kicking off the anchors, then a couple of tie spacers, some tie cranes and tie injectors, a labe tie plate crew, some spikers, a rail lifter to get rid of any missed ties, another tie spacer, some anchor setting machines, and some labes to follow up and set the rare missed anchor or spike, then a liner. We'd work maybe 10-12 hours a day (bewteen blocks) and do about a mile. Ballast crews would work nights to dump on what we made for the day, and a tamping crew usually was about a mile or two behind us. Anyone do it that way any more?

[@PhilR720]

Ah, the tripp. I ran the sledge solo, no cart, recovered plates, removed anchors, spikes, and got rid of any tie butts with a TR-10 as the extractor (solo, one 10lb sledge maul for all my tools :P), did 1500 ties, then had to drop back behind the inserter (tripp) and shovel and lay out plates for 400 ties, and we caught back up to the Tripp heh. I like this, nice to see another company's work, you guys seem pretty focused except...well, except for you, that is! haha

[@187killa01]

im guessing this is a class 1 road. where is your ballast?? i work for a class 4 commuter railroad in nwi. NICTD. look it up

[@viper306m]

UGH, i build the spiker, the bins and the tripp weird to see it in action

[@fogdan]

Thanks for posting. Great Job!!

[@nickythurman5822]

What are they doing?

[@timb393]

100% need a 1 1/2' stone or river rock and thanks for video & like it.

[@JuanSanchez-sd3po]

How many ties have y'all done in one day ? Fyi I was part of a tie gang and did 1,063 in one day

[@Bear_83]

Railroad life lol.

[@monteglenn3718]

And yall dont pull plates?

[@stewartdeerfield]

Helper on a scarfire used to find all the snakes in the southwest u.s., I know haha.

[@Irekyu]

good times