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Re: what do these MOW vehicles do?
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:36:34 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera=spamcake=.com
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What do you know. Well, here's some pics of 6700s...
http://www.fcmrail.com/jackson6700.htm
These 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 they are so long and bridgy looking is because they pick up
the ties (and the track and everything), shake them and set them back
down. This picking up occurs in the middle of the unit and the wheels at
the ends are bearing the load of the track being plucked from the muck.
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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