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Originally Posted by Mutt
damn there's a machine for everything
who paid you to do that? i don't even know who owns railroad tracks - are they privately owned or government owns and maintains railroad tracks?
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There literally is a machine for fucking everything on the railroad. I sank 3 1/2 years of my youth into working tie gang in Northern Alberta and I've ran every machine they got. Became somewhat of an expert spiker though, and I put many many an hour in on that exact machine in the video. We figured it out once,
I drove over 3 million spikes in my railroad carrier. Funny thing is that they have an entire tour of the tie replacement process.
The tracks up there are just about exclusively owned by Canadian National. A & B is one of the biggest contract railroad maintenance companies in Canada, they grew huge over a period of a few years and ate up most of the maintenance industry in the west. So CN was footing the bill.
I you really have nothing better to do for an hour, you can take a ground level tour of the entire process thanks to buddy. The kid who shot these videos is actually an old drinking buddy. Hell, a few of these guys are. When I first met him he had train tracks buzzed into his head like a mohawk.
That shit really deserves an episode of "Dirty Jobs", but we'll all have to settle for Mark's rendition.
I almost miss it.