Laying track

[buzz456]

http://dc132.file.qip.ru/flash/player.s ... aring.code

[NDORFN]

Awesome vid. I'm gonna watch it again...

[Racer]

What in the world!!
Who in the heck invents such machines!
That is a fantastic video.

[Heavy Chevy]

Awesome video. I think that is the most detail I have seen when it comes to M.O.W. work.
Super cool equipment. I wonder how tough that would be to model.

[Chacal]

I can't tell what most of these machines are doing

[arizonachris]

I can't tell what most of these machines are doing

They are tearing out old rail, removing old ties and ballast, planting new ties, spacing them, adding new balast and tamping it, laying the rail then attaching it to the new ties. Kinda looks like a British locomotive in there. I think the MOW equipment is Swiss made. Seen this video before, it's totally awesome to watch again tho!

[Cardinal51]

These similar videos have a narator explaining things:

-Part 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF-3ditSCIk
-Part 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixfIOr6eycU

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

That video is actually recorded in the Netherlands, where I live. Those machines are stationed and maintained in Zutphen were I have to chance trains when travelling to and from work.
So I see them often parked in the yard. Volker Rail operates them.
It is the kind of machinery needed to renew rail, sleepers and ballast in one go, necessary on all or our busy rail lines. Minimum service level on all of our rail network is one train each direction per hour. Obviously, those machines can only work during the night on main lines. Branch lines like the one in the video are closed and passengers have to use buses.

All personel should be wearing hard hats and keep their hands off the machine!

There are acually men riding those scooter cars over the flatcars that bring and take sleepers to the machine. A whole track renewal train is like 300 meters long and can probably do 1.5 to 2 km of track before running out of new sleepers.

[Csxgp38-2]

Just curious, why do yall call the ties "sleepers"?

[NDORFN]

It's what we call them in New Zealand (and I think most Commonwealth countries). Not sure where the term came from. Possibly because they're part of the rail "Bed".