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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. They are often used in conjunction with ballast tampers when maintaining track.
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]
Among other events, on June 25 and 26, 2013, members of NARCOA operated their privately owned railroad motorcars over the Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad in Colorado. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] There was a 20-day tour of the Pacific Northwest railroads in 2015 [ 15 ] and a 2015 excursion for three days from Coos Bay to Coquille [ 16 ] and in Napa ...
Rail transportation brought the requirement for snow removal by plows. In the 1840s railway companies began using Bucker plows to remove snow from railways. [ 8 ] The first incarnation of the wedge plow was the Bucker plow which was made of wood. [ 9 ]
Also on site was an old, open-top hopper car of unknown origin, presumably used as ballast spreader car. This was kept on a siding next to the displayed 0-6-0T saddle tankers during the park's operation. After Tombstone Junction ceased operation, the rail equipment was sold at auction.
Purchased new. Converted to CLEAR 140 by Sygnet Rail Technologies with Cummins QSK45L prime mover in 2011-2012. Offered for sale in 2022. 93 General Electric Co. 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) C-C: December 1956 32710 Originally, GE pattern GEX3341 [71] with Alco 6-251B prime mover. Purchased new. Colt Industries, Fairbanks-Morse 6-251 prime mover ...
Perhaps the company's best-known wartime product was "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it, used for gunnery practice. [4] [2] Larger railroad motor cars were the models 27A (10-man capacity), 27AW-F (10-man capacity), and 38B-F (14-man capacity). Adding side steps could double the number of men carried.