Railway yard workers regulate yard traffic, couple and uncouple trains and perform related yard activities. Railway track maintenance workers operate machines and equipment to lay, maintain and repair railway tracks.

• Operate control panel switches from railway yard tower to set traffic signals and to activate train switches that regulate railway traffic in railway yards
  
• Operate car retarders, turntables and track switches to align locomotives and cars as required for coupling, uncoupling or servicing
  
• Operate machines and equipment to lay, maintain and repair railway tracks, align tracks, transfer, spread, level and tamp ballast around ties and rails and to clear snow from tracks
  
• Switch cars according to instructions which indicate the location, disposition and number of cars
  
• Lubricate moving parts of railway cars and locomotives
  
• Clean and make minor repairs to machines and equipment
  
• Patrol assigned track sections to identify and report damaged or broken track
  
• Perform other track maintenance duties as directed.
  

Ballast regulator operator - railway
Car controller - railway
Control tower operator - railway
Motor vehicle operator - pole yard
Railway equipment operator
Railway track patroller
Signal tower operator - railway
Switch tender - railway yard
Yard coupler - railway
Yard worker - railway

Railway yard workers are employed by railway transport companies.