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Shoulder Ballast Cleaning<\/h2>\n

Loram offers the industry\u2019s most advanced and productive shoulder ballast cleaning services, equipment and technologies, resulting in increased efficiencies and reduced costs. A Loram shoulder ballast cleaning program ensures a healthy, robust railroad infrastructure maintained to deliver maximum ROI.<\/p>\n

Shoulder ballast cleaning consists of removing ballast at the end of the ties, screening the ballast and discarding fines and fouling material and restoring the good ballast to the shoulder. Integrated scarifiers break open end of sleeper mud pockets, removes fines, and restores ballast voids in the shoulders and under the sleeper ends and release damaging trapped water. By consistently excavating at levels up to 200 millimeters below the sleeper and restoring the ballast shoulder structure, obstructing fines in the crib are able to migrate and drain freely to the shoulder with dramatically improved seepage time.<\/p>\n

Shoulder Ballast Cleaning benefits and features<\/h3>\n

A regular discipline of shoulder ballast cleaning with Loram prolongs ballast life, reducing the frequency and cost of re-ballasting.[\/vc_column_text]

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t[vc_column_text]The benefits of shoulder ballast cleaning include:<\/p>\n