PICTURES OF LIRR and LUXEMBOURG TIE REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT CARS
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 Revised: Several pictures of Long Island Railroad "maintenance of the way" (MOW)cars in the Garden City Yards. There are more than thirty different cars in the yard. Each morning they are formed into a consist and taken to replace ties and ballast on the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) tracks between Floral Park and Hempstead on the Hempstead branch of the Long Island Railroad. Materials in the yard include ties, tie plates, spikes and rail anchors. Quite an assortment of different kinds of cars which include spike removers, tie removers, cars that anchor rail plates to ties, rail plate removers, tie cranes, tie replacers, tampers, ballast cars, to name a few. If you know the specific purpose of any of the cars e-mail me and I will add the information to the picture(s).

Revised: Several pictures of maintenance of the way (MOW) cars that are used for tie replacement by the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). These cars are quite complex and each has its specific function. The cars are used to replace ties and clean and replace ballast. Ties are anchored to track plates or Pandrol plates by spikes or large lag bolts and in turn the rails are fastened to the ties by spikes or or to the newer Pandrol plates by anchors. There are special machines that will remove the old spikes or bolts and other machines that replace the old spikes or bolts with new ones. The cars have interesting names such as an adzer, a kribber, a ballast regulator, or a production dynamic tamper.


 Revised: Pictures of an old LIRR G 5 steam engine that is being restored by a local railroad club. The engine is seen with its cab separated from the boiler and the drive rods removed. The tender is behind the engine. The engine will be fully restored and placed in a park for exhibit and maybe used for excursion rides. The engine has been moved from its original Mitchel Field site to the LIRR Oyster Bay railyards where the restoration will be completed.

I have added an MTH G5 to my collection. You can see it by going to my MTH section. (Just click here.) The lok is seen pulling a consist of tuscan colored Madison type rail cars that were in service on the LIRR until the sixties.

Revised: Several pictures of maintenance of the way (MOW) cars that were used for tie replacement by the CFL railroad just outside of the Luxembourg station. I visited Luxembourg in the summer of 2000. I travelled by SNCF train from Gare de l'Est in Paris. As our train was approaching Luxembourg station the train slowed for what I discovered was track replacement work. There were a number of maintenance of the way cars and many workers busy replacing wooden ties with concrete ties. When I was about to leave Luxembourg, the MOW cars were pushed into the station and then left. I got pictures of the cars and also some picures of the newly intalled ties and tracks.

These cars, as the LIRR cars, are quite complex and each has its specific function. The cars are used to replace ties and clean and replace ballast. Ties are anchored to track plates by spikes or large lag bolts and in turn the rails are fastened to the ties by anchors. There are special machines that will remove the old spikes or bolts and other machines that replace the old spikes or bolts with new ones. The cars have interesting names such as an adzer, a kribber, a ballast regulator, or a production dynamic tamper. The pictures show the cars and crew at work and in the Luxembourg station. There are several pictures of the completed tracks taken from a moving train. Sorry about the reflection in the window.


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