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what do these MOW vehicles do?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:52:47 GMT
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Hello,
I was stopped at a crossing today and I saw
four Union Pacific MOW vehicles go by.
Two of them were Pandrol Jackson model 6700s
and the other two didn't have any obvious
markings.
They all looked weird to my untrained eye.
Does anyone know what this model 6700 does?
Has anyone modeled it in Lego?
/Eric McCarthy/
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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| Obvious links to their site are currently not working for me, but they are located at www.pandroljackson.com or should be. MOW can do so many many different things. I confess that I don't have the entire PJ model line memorised so just a model (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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| What do you know. Well, here's some pics of 6700s... (URL) are tampers. They tamp ties. That is, they reseat the tie in the ballast to make sure that it's evenly distributing weight, and that it hasn't sunk too deeply into the roadbed. The reason (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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| (...) For those who wonder what one of these looks like (like me), check out: (URL) most of the way down the page. How's that for a page full of ideas for LEGO creations... Or here's a better one: (URL) the description, looks like it's purpose is (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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