It's amazing how much us common folk take for granted. I've watched several videos on track and ballast maintenance today and never realized the work and engineering that goes into the rail system.
In my youth I was a Sectionman for Burlington Northern Railroad. We tamped miles of track by hand after replacing rotted or damaged ties. On the rare occasion when they brought in the Tampamatic we’d get a welcomed break. I was in the best shape of my life. One summer I got plenty of overtime doing the whole Sioux City, Iowa rail yard.
I work for the rebuild shop at plasser American. Cool to see the equipment I build in action. Those tamping heads are a lot of fun to tear apart and put together.
If you think this machine is something, you should see the one that swaps old wood crossties for new concrete ones. It's on the Pentrex video "Working on the Railroad"-check it out.
I wonder if you can help me? Do Tamping machine's have lasers on them and if they do, do they point upwards towards the sky and what colour are the laser beams on them?
The lasers are usually red and they are used to measure the track alignment. They are aimed at receivers (not at the sky!) to keep the track in alignment.
It's amazing how much us common folk take for granted. I've watched several videos on track and ballast maintenance today and never realized the work and engineering that goes into the rail system.
In my youth I was a Sectionman for Burlington Northern Railroad. We tamped miles of track by hand after replacing rotted or damaged ties. On the rare occasion when they brought in the Tampamatic we’d get a welcomed break. I was in the best shape of my life. One summer I got plenty of overtime doing the whole Sioux City, Iowa rail yard.
Good on ya mate.
Perfect to the point explanation.
I live right next to some train tracks...they've had this machine running all day; now I know its purpose.
I always had the curiosity of how it worked this machine or why it existed, thanks for this video!
I work for the rebuild shop at plasser American. Cool to see the equipment I build in action. Those tamping heads are a lot of fun to tear apart and put together.
You mean Plasser and Theurer? I own the company.
@@Crazytesseract seriously?
@@unknownanimist2200 😆 sorry, no.
I always wondered what they were doing! Now I know for sure!
If you think this machine is something, you should see the one that swaps old wood crossties for new concrete ones. It's on the Pentrex video "Working on the Railroad"-check it out.
beautifully explained, thank you very much
Informative and self explaining video
Can also be done with a tool called a beater pick, perfect for the masochist.
Thanks for this information, I thought tampers were used to move railroad ties and then remove them.
Did alot of hand tamping with a ballast fork and a lining bar..
I operated a laser guided tamper for a few yrs..a very simple piece of machinery to operater really..
What does track ballast sit on - does it just sit on earth . . . ?
Won't that leave a void in between all of the tamped ties?
where can i buy a rail tampering Loco from ...? based in the UK
I wonder if you can help me? Do Tamping machine's have lasers on them and if they do, do they point upwards towards the sky and what colour are the laser beams on them?
The lasers are usually red and they are used to measure the track alignment. They are aimed at receivers (not at the sky!) to keep the track in alignment.
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I live near a railway line. One of these buggers has just gone through. It's 2am.
I'd been asleep for an hour or so. FFS.
Thanks 😊
Hey 👋 brother ..
Thanks 🙏🏼.. just saw this pass by at Vidyanagar’s railway station near OU Hyderabad south India
Unique machine 😊👌
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Reminds me of my ex. Big, noisy, intrusive and always digging for more
Is this the most commonly used method in the railway track repairing?
Yangzepeng Liu yes, to correct the rail geometry for safety avoid derailment
Good animation
Very good
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Nice
Hi. Who invented this machine that fixes the tracks?
Matisa in 1951
Kiran in 1996
RAIL TAMPERING COULD COST YOU MORE THAN JUST A FINE £5000 and 10 years in jail .
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Video machine MTT 09-16 CSM
boring animation...
Dont watch it then