Ballast Tools Equipment

A global leader in purpose-built track maintenance and construction equipment, Ballast Tools Equipment (BTE) offers a full line of custom-engineered excavators and backhoes, each perfected for hi-rail applications, along with a comprehensive catalog of innovative, specialized work attachments.

BTE works directly with Class 1 railroads, short lines, and railroad contractors to assess and address the industry's most aggressive challenges, from vegetation management to system-wide production tie programs. Those collaborations inform BTE's innovations—hi-rail solutions that, by design, make difficult maintenance of way work simpler, safer, and more productive.

Benefits that MOW crews can only find with BTE include the proprietary Automatic Attachment Recognition system, which makes optimizing machines for multiple attachments seamless and immediate, and BTE Priority Hydraulics, which direct 30% more flow to attachments, maximizing power and control exactly where and when it's needed.