Yes it's quite the machine. It undercuts underneath the track, picks up all the ballast runs it thru screeners that filter out the smaller rock, then it cleans and sharpens the ballast before depositing it back on the roadbed. Thanks for watching my friend.
Yes, track bedding cleaning machines are already huge machines. But the way it is done in the video does not help, because most of the dirt and too small gravel stones are below the sleepers and rails. The latest generation of track bedding cleaning machines is the PM-1000 URM machine series. Here is the English video. ruclips.net/video/A43HSznOZbk/видео.html The latest step in this type of track maintenance machine is the RUS series, which combines track bedding cleaning and rapid conversion train in one machine. The company switelsky in Austria has such a machine in use. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
this is NOT full ballast cleaning. YES--a full under track cutting, pickup, sifting, and relay would be the best. in between that this side ballast clean/brake up is a very good MOW. this is a quick way to promote drainage from under the track to the sides. as the water moves from on top of, thru and out from under the track / sleepers it will carry away the smalls thus helping prevent prevent mud spots and mud pumping. there is also a bar that will knock out hardened ballast from under each tie back to about 12 inches on each side of the tie. before this type of MOW there should already be a sloped contour on both sides of the ballast bed so the now free to flow water can get as far from the track bed as possible.
@@YTatheist Yes, here's a link to a video, of the same machine, that was filmed up close. At the 8:40 mark, you see the machine undercutting the roadbed and then relaying the cleaned and sharpened ballast. ruclips.net/video/xAGBB_2musw/видео.html
this is NOT full ballast cleaning. YES--a full under track cutting, pickup, sifting, and relay would be the best. in between that this side ballast clean/brake up is a very good MOW. this is a quick way to promote drainage from under the track to the sides. as the water moves from on top of, thru and out from under the track / sleepers it will carry away the smalls thus helping prevent prevent mud spots and mud pumping. there is also a bar that will knock out hardened ballast from under each tie back to about 12 inches on each side of the tie. before this type of MOW there should already be a sloped contour on both sides of the ballast bed so the now free to flow water can get as far from the track bed as possible.
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A very interesting video my friend those people has got basically a factory on rails. The operators sure have a dusty job!!!
Yes it's quite the machine. It undercuts underneath the track, picks up all the ballast runs it thru screeners that filter out the smaller rock, then it cleans and sharpens the ballast before depositing it back on the roadbed. Thanks for watching my friend.
@@PacificNWRailfan Only in the USA my friend!!!
Yes, track bedding cleaning machines are already huge machines. But the way it is done in the video does not help, because most of the dirt and too small gravel stones are below the sleepers and rails. The latest generation of track bedding cleaning machines is the PM-1000 URM machine series. Here is the English video. ruclips.net/video/A43HSznOZbk/видео.html The latest step in this type of track maintenance machine is the RUS series, which combines track bedding cleaning and rapid conversion train in one machine. The company switelsky in Austria has such a machine in use. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
this is NOT full ballast cleaning. YES--a full under track cutting, pickup, sifting, and relay would be the best. in between that this side ballast clean/brake up is a very good MOW. this is a quick way to promote drainage from under the track to the sides. as the water moves from on top of, thru and out from under the track / sleepers it will carry away the smalls thus helping prevent prevent mud spots and mud pumping. there is also a bar that will knock out hardened ballast from under each tie back to about 12 inches on each side of the tie. before this type of MOW there should already be a sloped contour on both sides of the ballast bed so the now free to flow water can get as far from the track bed as possible.
About the 6:25 mark a supervisor litters with a can …
Some people are just pigs. Thanks for watching my friend.
Looks like he just dumped the remainder of his water bottle.
How do they get the ballast from in between the ties? Is that a separate machine?
The machine has arms on each side that dig under the rail and removes the ballast that is under the ties and rail.
@@PacificNWRailfan and then fills it back in before the weight of the machine crosses that track?
@@YTatheist Yes, here's a link to a video, of the same machine, that was filmed up close. At the 8:40 mark, you see the machine undercutting the roadbed and then relaying the cleaned and sharpened ballast. ruclips.net/video/xAGBB_2musw/видео.html
this is NOT full ballast cleaning. YES--a full under track cutting, pickup, sifting, and relay would be the best. in between that this side ballast clean/brake up is a very good MOW. this is a quick way to promote drainage from under the track to the sides. as the water moves from on top of, thru and out from under the track / sleepers it will carry away the smalls thus helping prevent prevent mud spots and mud pumping. there is also a bar that will knock out hardened ballast from under each tie back to about 12 inches on each side of the tie. before this type of MOW there should already be a sloped contour on both sides of the ballast bed so the now free to flow water can get as far from the track bed as possible.
No one stated it was!!!!