Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 39, 2005

A spiker in operation near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

A spiker is a piece of railroad maintenance of way equipment. Its purpose is to drive railroad spikes into the ties on a railroad track to hold the rail in place. Many different sizes of spikers are manufactured and in use around the world.

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