Abstract: A rail maintenance apparatus having a plurality of equipment elements including: a rear railway wheel assembly, a tractor, a pair of laser beam receiver assemblies, a medial railway wheel assembly, a tamping device, a pair of laser aperture assemblies, a track clamping and lifting assembly, a forward railway wheel assembly, an extensible boom, and a pair of laser beam emitter assemblies engaged by and supported by a rail cart. The equipment elements are arranged and assembled so as to run on a railroad track. The laser emitters, apertures and receivers arranged to detect non-level track sections and the clamping and lifting assembly and tamping device arranged and enabled for lifting the track sections in order to re-level the sections.