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A track geometry car (also known as a track recording car) is an automated track inspection vehicle on a rail transport system used to test several parameters of the track geometry without obstructing normal railroad operations. Some of the parameters generally measured include position, curvature, alignment of the track, smoothness, and the ...
Two-car rail welding unit W301–W302 Maxson Corp 1981 In service: R57 Self-propelled crane car R58 Flat cars (for refuse) RF01–RF27 Fuji Heavy Industries 1983 In service: R59 Track geometry car TGC1 Plasser: 1984 In service: R60: Track gang car: Never purchased: R61 Self-propelled crane cars C211, C216 Fuji Heavy Industries 1983 Retired R62 ...
Sperry Rail Service Vehicle. Dr. Elmer Sperry began developing a method of locating internal rail defects in 1911. To build a railway test car, he contracted the American Railway Association in 1927. Construction on this first car began in June 1927. The body was metal-faced plywood, and was mounted on a Kalamazoo motor car bed. This car was ...
Fairmont merged with Harsco Corporation in 1979 to become part of Harsco Track Technologies (Harsco Rail in 2009). [1] Fairmont products included: internal combustion engines such as the PHB and QB [3] models; maintenance of way vehicles such as speeders, small derrick cars, small shipping vehicles such as combination platform cars, etc.
Harsco rail equipment seen in Bradford, Ontario, May 2015. Harsco was founded in 1853 as The Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company and became the Harrisburg Steel Corporation in 1935. Following a series of acquisitions, the company became Harsco Corporation in 1956, forming three divisions: Metals & Minerals (Now Harsco Environmental), Rail, and ...
On straight or tangent track, ideally, there should be no variation, while on curves, a cant is generally desired. Curvature – The amount by which the rail deviates from being straight or tangent. The geometry car checks the actual curvature (in Degree of curvature) of a curve versus its design curvature. Rail gauge – The distance between ...
Track geometry car: MERMEC: Roger 600 2023 [79] Plasser American: Ballast and switch tamper Nordco [c] Ballast Regulator Shuttlewagon SWX Series Railcar mover Shuttlewagon Road–rail vehicle: Brandt Maintenance Vehicle c. 2011 –present Self Powered Flat Cars #5066, 5067, 5068. Relco Locomotives Work Train 2019–2023
Jackson 6700 switch tamping machine A Plasser & Theurer 09-16 CSM Tamper / Liner A MATISA tamper at Keighley in February 2017 Customer VolkerRail. A tamping machine or ballast tamper, informally simply a tamper, is a self-propelled, rail-mounted machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks to make the tracks and roadbed more durable and level.