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Railroad Maintenance & Track Laying Machine

flanker From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1609 posts, RR: 2
Posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1567 times:

I don't know if this has been posted before, but i just saw it and my jaw dropped. Its freaking amazing how complex this whole process is, and yet, so simple.

Figured you railroad nutties would enjoy it! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=99f_1304918298

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czbbflier From Canada, joined Jul 2006, 932 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1494 times:

That is very cool. Thanks for posting!

I wonder how fast it takes to do the whole process... there seems to be quite a few passes at the section- how do they get one train out of the way so the next can do its job?

flanker From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1609 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1406 times:

Yeah I wonder too. Maybe some of the train gurus on this site can explain how the process works.

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elmothehobo From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 1515 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1338 times:

There is another similar machine that does the complete opposite, it goes along and pulls up the rails and ties and leaves just a bare roadbed.

So enlightened I glow in the dark.

cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4879 posts, RR: 44
Reply 4, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1316 times:

I've seen them here as well - but didn't see actually what they did before.

Northwest727 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 491 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (2 years 1 week 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1145 times:

Quoting elmothehobo (Reply 3):
There is another similar machine that does the complete opposite, it goes along and pulls up the rails and ties and leaves just a bare roadbed.

Sucks seeing rail lines being ripped out. This sounds rather classy; a rail line that ran past where I used to live was ripped out using your everyday excavators.

MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13334 posts, RR: 64
Reply 6, posted (2 years 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1134 times:

Usually these machines work in tandem. From time to time the ballast bed under the tracks has to be renewed. Also wooden sleepers tend to rott after a few decades, so they´ll have to be replaced. So you´ll have one machine lifting the old tack and removing it, then a bunch of excavators removing and rebuilding the ballast bed and finally a machine which lays new track sections, welds them together and stuffs the ballast between the sleepers.

Jan

PROSA From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 5439 posts, RR: 5
Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 1098 times:

Notice that the ties (sleepers) in the video clip are concrete. Traditional wooden ties, while not quite obsolete, are nonetheless often being replaced by concrete or composite ties.

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