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A spreader is a type of maintenance equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles. The spreader spreads gravel along the railroad ties. The various ploughs, wings and blades of specific spreaders allow them to remove snow, build banks, clean and dig ditches, evenly distribute gravel, as well as trim embankments of brush along the side of the track.
A ballast regulator (also known as a ballast spreader or ballast sweeper) is a piece of railway maintenance equipment used to shape and distribute the gravel track ballast that supports the ties in rail tracks.
Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]
Spreaders - Rail based plow that is used to move ballast and create ditches beside train tracks. [3] Side dump cars - Rail car that was built so that it can dump it's load, often ballast, to the side, at any location. [3] Spike puller - Pulls out spikes from railroad ties. [4] Spike driver - Inserts new spikes into railroad ties. [4]
About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge.
The Fort Eustis Military Railroad is an intra-plant United States Army rail transportation system existing entirely within the ... Jordan Spreader SN-85 at the ...
82400B Professional Salt Spreader. Chapin’s largest walk-behind salt spreader is made for large jobs and can hold lots of salt–up to 100 pounds.
A hirail vehicle used by Sperry Rail Service to inspect tracks for defects. Robust inspections are key to a safe railroad and discovering flaws and wear in tracks early enough that they can be addressed before causing a derailment, or becoming so severe that the work must be done immediately, regardless of whether it is a convenient time to do so.