High-Output Track Maintenance Systems Respond to Performance Challenges

High-output track maintenance machinery is used to minimize track closure time while keeping the rails in good condition. This article examines the equipment currently being used in Europe, with specific attention directed to ballast cleaning, rail reprofiling, and tamping. Specific manufacturers and their products are profiled.

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• Publication Date: 2005-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 16-24
• Serial:
  • Rail and Public Transport
  • Issue Number: 22
  • Publisher: Les Editions La Vie du Rail
  • ISSN: 1772-6670

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ballast (Railroads); Maintenance of way; Maintenance of way cars; Railroad tracks; Railroad transportation; Tamping
• Identifier Terms: High Output Ballast Cleaning System (Track maintenance equipment); Linsinger Maschinenbau Gesellschaft mbH; Matisa Materiel Industriel SA; Plasser and Theurer; RM 900 RT (Track maintenance equipment); SF03-FFS (Track maintenance equipment); Spitzke Group; TCM 60 (Track maintenance equipment); UM-S 2001 (Track maintenance equipment); Unimat 09 (Track maintenance equipment)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Dynamic track stabiliser; Rail profiling; Track geometry
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01014744
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 2005 9:02AM