Amtrak P-811 MOW Track Laying System Crew Placing Concrete Ties
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025
- See how it's done up close as an Amtrak work crew uses the P-811 Track Laying System to lift the new track, push the aggregate aside, pull the old wooden ties and place new concrete ties and clip the rail in place all at once with this amazing machinery.
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From Amtrak regarding service on this section of track: "Train service operates normally before 8 a.m. and after 4 p.m., but between those times no Keystone trains are operating on this stretch. Service runs at normal times all day Friday through Sunday. During lunchtime Monday through Thursday, the Pennsylvanian, which operates between Pittsburgh and New York City, goes through - one train in each direction.
While the work is being done, there’s one track out of service but the other track is being used to move the people doing the work. That track is cleared so the Pennsylvanian can run through during the lunch hour and the Keystone can resume normal service after 4 p.m. until the end of the day Monday through Thursday."
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The concrete ties are about 1,000 pounds each compared to about 200 for wood ties. Amtrak says the concrete ties in this region are expected to last 60 years compared to 25 years for wood ties. This $122 million project is installing 113,000 concrete ties and cleaning/renewing 226,500 feet of gravel ballast on 43 miles of track between Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pa.
good information. However that works out to $3M per mile. rather expensive, but... there's always a but, concrete holds up a lot longer and who knows what technology will bring in 60 years!
Huh, I'll be dern.
My mom (now retired)
Used to work for
"UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD" for years and told me how they switch out cross ties,
But I still didn't understand fully how it was done until now.
I give credit where credit is due:
THIS IS PRETTY NEAT.
I WISH AMTRAK WOULD DO THIS FOR A LINE COMING TO AND FROM FT SMITH ARKANSAS.
THAT WOULD REALLY BE GREAT 👍!
That’s so cool man wish I could get into that
Very cool
I'd like to see a drone's eye view, it seems the rails are un-spiked from the ties and then split so far apart that the old ties can be lifted up and out of the way and the new ties dropped down in their place, and then the rails are brought back together and re-spiked. that the rails are that flexible is mind boggling ...!...
And the Corn is fueling the locomotives and cars -both with the Ethanol in gasoline and Bio-diesel-in the locomotives and trucks. 9:21 the concrete sleepers are cutting the Creosote in the environment but they last longer than wood ties in use. 10:55
Obviously you don’t have anything that runs on that garbage. Bio Diesel is TRASH. Why don’t you explain the cons to it? Because the list outweighs the pros.
Railroad performance once a 30 years gigs it is band of811 to be seen that thay travel place to place thay work...
This looks like the Harrisburg line, yes?
Yes, the Harrisburg Line between Harrisburg and Lancaster
This machine looks to be an enginers worst nightmare. Lots of moving parts but they seem to work together, most of the time.
Those wooden ties looked pretty good. I hope they were repurposed…
Long blue sleeves at construction jobs means management .
Can the cement rail tires handle freight locomotives?
No. Neither can wooden ties.
They therefore use rails on which the locomotives run.
Where is this located?
Probably Africa or southern Europe.
How many supervisors does an Amtrak project take? The answer is 6....LOL.
I don't know how you can repurpose wood that has been impreginated with a chemical that makes it weather and bug proof to last at least 20 years.
They can be used in yards and sidings, or sold to short lines, etc..
Wooden ties are potting soil after 25 years at the latest. A properly manufactured prestressed concrete sleeper will last at least 50 years. In Germany, only 5% of the new sleepers installed each year are wooden sleepers. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
In Australia we use them for garden beds and small retaining walls. Where I live there are none available anymore because the last of the wooden ties were replaced many years ago.
Love modern engineering. But yet the process of the corn plants growing next to machine puts that engineering to shame
I think ! AMTRACK ! will Get ! A wayy better Rail Service ! Compared to The Original ! Oregon ! Timber ! Used back then ! When the RAILWAYS ! First started in the WILD WILD WESTERN Daze ! For BOTH ! FREIGHT ! AND PASSENGER'S ! ALIKE ! NOW !!