It would have been helpful if someone from the Industry was Narrating and explaining the process as the work on the Track was taking place. Enjoyable and informative video to watch.

I absolutely love watching "Maintenance of Way" operations ! Everyone has their job and it has to be done, JUST SO; for the safety of all trains that use the track ! I applaud all the workers and the camera-person and editor that made this video possible !!!

What I do find remarkable is that how flexible these tracks are.

As mentioned below this would be much more interesting video if there was a good Narrator explaining each step in rail laying and repair. Can one imagine how hard the work was laying rail tracks in the 1860s across America and doing it mostly by heavy labor.

Superb Video

I would love to play a railway track building simulator that incorporates all the machines seen in the video. Some would find laying down track piece by piece and tightening every bolt a bit tedious but I'm the type who enjoys stuff like that.

' thank to all train workers are doing great jobs to take cares of the train tracks... be safety tracks

Very well documented but lack of explanations for each of the task performed.............A narrator would help to complement this Super Engineering show piece.......

Man, this is serious business. Can you imagine what work would be like if we didn't have machines? I wouldn't want to go there.

I'm from Vietnam, nice to meet all of you guys working on Railway.

I'm amazed at how the railroad's can seem to put down tracks thru hills, valleys, mountains, deserts, over rivers and whatever else seems to get in the way.

👍👍👍 super.

These people work hard so that we always have a safe & sound journey. Thank you all😌

Think of the equipment manufacturers that build this stuff then have to sell it at a profit to stay in business. Then there's the skilled operators needed to run it. Don't forget those engineers that design the stuff.

Enjoyed every second of this MOST EXCELLENT professional video. Kudos to the Engineers that designed these wonderful machines along with the skillful operators. My beloved late Father worked 38 years on a bridge gang and carpenter for Southern Pacific. R.I.P, wonderful Dad.

Wow very Informative Video

At 7:20 you have a little rail riding excavator with a magnetized head picking up the steel tie plates, fumbling with them and setting them back down. I guess in a more convenient spot. Really..... A person walking along could have done it faster and better. I think sometimes we take mechanization a little to far.

1960's single bank tampers and ballast cleaners for a 1960's railway. Sums up CSX to the T

I really enjoyed the clips. Fascinating and impressive even without commentary. Thanks for sharing.

I still can't get over how...noodly..rail track is while it's being handled. I mean I always knew it was both tough, hard and strong, but it's still a trip to see it all flopping around as it's being set.

Very interesting. Would like to see brief captions of what each machine does, how and why. Also why workers do part of a job by hand and use tools finish it. (IE: the splice bar bolts)

Nice balasunderstop baitermasjine I works before on Plaza rail Soud Africa that takes me back on track to do it again Thanks to sow me this video God bless you

MY Grandfather was a Laborer and retired from The Illinois Central Railway (I C) What you see here, men did this back breaking work. FYI, Illinois Central, change name to Illinois Central Gulf, then to Amtrak. Peace and Blessing for the people who retired and still work for the Railroad, a hazardous and dangerous job. I'm very proud of my Grandfather. RIP!

I am amazed how flexible the rails are, yet can take the weight of the locomotives.

Would have been interesting if an explanation had been included.

Needs to tell the viewer what's going on in each step, and why.

Very Good ideal railway construction 👍

Interesting,but would be GREAT if there was some detailed explanation.

Amazing 2. mins on a drill. So modern

I could sit and watch this all day

My grandfather we called him daddy work for Santa Fe Railroad Southern California from 1939 to 1967 he saw all of the early 20th century steam technology all the way through first gen diesel technology and then the transfer over in 1952 to 100% diesel rail transportation and shipping He died in 1997 and he didn't live long enough to actually see videos of all of the modern transportation and Freight Line Construction Technologies that were introduced mainly in the last 20 + years

Great ! Now I know how long it should take for Amtrak to install new track lines for here in Las Vegas. We're growing out here.

Excelente equipo de trabajo

While this seems like a lot of equipment and manpower, I could only imagine the amount of manpower when these tracks were originally laid. Great work by the RR guy's, and good video. John

Really great, technology to repair rail. All the sophisticated equipment Greeting from Indonesia. I'm newcomer.

hello good afternoon thank you for being beautiful thank you for being wonderful I hope you have a great day. Goodnight the greatness in you is beautiful

These railroad guys sure have some REALLY NEAT toys.

An interesting selection of videos, but I had no idea what was being done. If no commentary, then at least add some text. You obviously put in quite some work to video and then compile this and it was wasted alas.

Its like watching an engineering ballet, especially, when u see them all lined up, each doing a different job...

Super video

"Modern" or not, railfan or not, watching that equipment in person is cool. (Hearing protection is recommended tho) And look at the big picture. Where would we be, and what wouldn't we have, without the railroad.... 🌞

super video..............

Good track laying vid

India needs such machines for fast track projects of railways infrastructure constructions to complete in time.

Nice video.

To był mój zawód! Część sprzętu jaki tutaj jest prezentowany, widzę po raz pierwszy w życiu. Technika kolejowa idzie jednak szybko do przodu.

In the last days of the Rock Island RR, I worked on tie gang #3. We went to Warren, Arkansas and waited for our equipment to show up. Rock Island put us to work with the section gang. One old white man was the boss and the crew was black. On rainy days the men drank beer and whiskey and played poker. The black guys let the old white man win a few bucks and they made a full days pay,"good pay". We went out in a large van and we all sat in the back, pulling a trailer with cross ties and short pieces of rail. when we did find a broken rail or tie that needed replacing, it was a wonderful thing to see. This was not "ribbon rail"but short rails with angle plates to hold them together. To cut the rail the men would mark the rail on both sides with a cold chisel on a long handle, pull all the rail spikes from the part to be cut, put a jack under the part to be removed, then hit with a sledgehammer. The rail broke straighter than you would think. To drill the holes for the angle plate, they used a hand driven drill the hooked over the rail. Two handled, it drilled right through. When the crew put spikes in the ties, two men set the spikes and the men with spike mauls drove them down with two blows. They rolled the large hammers off their shoulders and never missed. We had spike drivers on the tie gang but watching how it was done in days gone past was a wonderful thing to see.

Could you please tell me the name of the music track and how can obtain it. Thank you. Most interesting video. I'm not a track layer but could easily follow the different stages.

Yes some clever pieces of kit out there now. But dont forget, all this used to be done with man power. Shovel or a Kango hammer, much more personal than a Tamper. Lol

Abu dhabi Italy worker good job.

These are just random clips one after another. They don't follow a sequence or form any sort of connected whole. It's just techo wallpaper. What a pity.

What makes the rail so ‘rubbery’ and the next one , stiff ? Great ad for I-beams.

Great rail therapy...I like IT!!!!

This is really a wow work.

amazing engine log

CSX... gotta love the faded colors on the tie gang machines... along with the fact that every other tie is being replaced... I guess from not being serviced at all for the past 50 years. At least NS can afford to repaint their track machines so they are mostly brand new and don't break down every five minutes. There is a NS video on YT that shows and explains every piece of machinery and its function in detail.

Muito bom!

Very nice video, good closeups etc. As most commenters explained, there cold have been sutitles, example “tamper” . The video also goes back and forth between American and European railways.

A wonder, the video, the workers and the machines!

I have no idea what these machines are doing. Some explanation would be nice.

Please add captions explaining the details of what we're seeing. Also, there's nothing "modern" about this equipment. As others have noted, this stuff has been around for a lot of years.

I've been worken on the railroad all the live long.......

Great work

Lithuania ? Yes very good the sceneries - the same I filmed in my homeland.

Its great they are using concrete planks for the track rather than oak

I absolutely loved it, thanks

Amazing Video!

Very nice and enthusiastic

看到美國一流大公司工程作業 真是大開眼界 效率好幼保護人員!

thank you vere math. l am from..lraq.baghdad..

That's magic ,scientific yet real scientific magic , but one of the things duzzled me(which is many) how steel rail bends like a jello in machine's arms , I never expected it to be so flexible .

WOW, IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU TOLD US WHAT THE MACHINE IS DOING SO I CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND !

The undercutter is my favorite.

Wowww men at work.

Oh, Sweden. I know that since I saw my old house/street in the video :)

Gut less labour less contractor less cost quick work

So cool, especially for the great model railroaders.

Far out man. Good vid.

Haha. 16:42 there's a bar code sticker on the rail. "Hey, run to Home depot and buy a 10' piece of rail road rail."

I wonder, what works more man or machine ? Competition is to be seen to be enjoyed.

Parabéns belo trabalho.

Awesome...

외국 각국의 철로 RAIL 이음 용접등 선진화 여러 기술을 한국도 잘 도입 하여 잘 활용 하고 있습니다 ! THANK YOU

This series of machines have been around over fifty years already.

One for Mr. Prabhu. I am sure we have the talent in the Railways Engineering workshops so why can't we design such? Or do we have them?

Amazin mashine, evry railway company nid something like that. 🏗👍👌

Wow! What meticulous, serious, time-intensive work this is. What a shame, only to have Godzilla and King Ghidorah rip the whole thing apart in 2 seconds.

Awesome amazing

An explanation of wtf is being done would have been great. I watched 3 minutes, had no idea what was happening, and moved on to another vid.

ماشاءالله👍

Saw bolts being installed backwards... then dawned on me the video was mirrored.

Lubię takie programy dokumentalne o.k.

Wow the tracks wobble around like rubber. It's like rubberized steel.

Nice tyknologyy

Jelly rails! Yum!!!!

Onboard custom tools inbuilt into the railway repair coach is quick for use. Mostly taking to a repair shop is difficult. These days the modern trends of railways where the coach is used as a bulldozer and truck and repair floor and tools factory etc is easy. Secondly repairs can be performed anywhere and during rain hazard.

И даже тут Укладочный кран в помощь, - и инвентарь соберет, и тележкой плети сразу на место поставит... И раза в 2 быстрее. Это даже без учета того, что инвентарь здесь еще отдельно собирать надо будет и вывозить.

Itu sebabnya upah buruh diluar cukup tinggi Krn ga perlu ratusan tenaga berkat adanya technologi modern

Если бы они так строили ж\д Москва-Владивосток, то ушло бы 1000 лет.

i want one for christmas