Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operator Career

Job Description: 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.


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Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operator Career

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