Loco Repair

Johnson Railway Service, Inc. (JRS) provides shop and field service for most types of diesel electric locomotives anywhere in Eastern and Mid-western United States. JRS has a lease fleet of locomotives which are available for short or long term leases for industrial in plant switching operations. The unit shown above is a typical lease unit that is used for in plant switching in facilities where a good basic locomotive is required for low speed operations.

JRS operates from three locomotive repair shops and has a fleet of service trucks and personnel whom are trained to perform all types of maintenance from changing out wheel sets and traction motors to major in-frame engine rebuilds and generator work. JRS service technicians are some of the best at electrical and pneumatic controls. They can make repairs or rewire an entire locomotive in the field. JRS can provide 92 day inspections, preventative maintenance work, install radio remote controls on existing locomotives, repair wrecked locomotives, and make up-grades to your existing locomotives like installing more modern braking, a microprocessor controller, an automatic parking brake, ditch lights, or a more modern control stands.

JRS has been in business in 1974 and has worked on hundreds of locomotives. It has provided field service to hundreds of industries, short line railways, electric utilities, coal mines and rock quarries, government agencies, the military services, and others. JRS shops are located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. At these shops JRS can perform frame up rebuilds and up-grades.

JRS rents locomotives for short or long term use. The minimum rental is two to four months depending on the location of the user and how difficult it is to service the unit from one of the JRS shops. The primary areas for rentals are Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The rentor is responsible for the costs of round trip freight, fuel, taxes, permits, damage done during use other than fair wear and tear, as well as the rental payments.

If your locomotive needs repair or service or if you need a rental locomotive while your unit is being repaired please select the repair or rental option below. These will provide details on how to contact JRS and how to submit a request for quotation.

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