How do they match: Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators

  • Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators

  • Special Equipment Operator

  • Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Includes ballast cleaning machine operators and railroad bed tamping machine operators.

  • Adjust controls of machines that spread, shape, raise, level, or align track, according to specifications.
  • Cut rails to specified lengths, using rail saws.
  • Engage mechanisms that lay tracks or rails to specified gauges.
  • Lubricate machines, change oil, or fill hydraulic reservoirs to specified levels.
  • Turn wheels of machines, using lever controls, to adjust guidelines for track alignments or grades, following specifications.