Why America Is Running Out Of Railroad Track Workers
The track maintenance workforce that keeps America's 140,000 miles of freight railroad safe is aging out faster than it can be replaced — and the physical demands, remote work locations, mandatory travel requirements, and compensation structures that define track gang employment have made recruiting the next generation of section laborers, machine operators, and track inspectors one of the most persistent unsolved problems in Class I railroad operations. Track workers operate tamping machines, ballast regulators, and spike drivers in conditions that include extreme heat, remote desert territories, and overnight shifts with no fixed home base — work that the railroad industry has never successfully marketed to a generation with more alternatives than the one that built the current workforce.
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