LORAM "BALLAST CLEANER" Another extreme machine! 1995
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- Take a few minutes and watch this machine pick up the ballast, vibrate the mud & dirt from it, wash it, put it back down, level it back around the ties! This was caught at the CSX yard in Grand Rapids, MI. on July 5, 1995. Pretty cool machine from LORAM!
I grew up near the Loram plant in Hamel, MN and would see stuff like this come by often. Nice video!
Charlie Browns "Pig Pin" comes to mind, seeing all that dust hovering around.
Saw one of these monsters pass through my town years ago. Railroad maintenance machines are so awesome to watch.
We used to do this by hand when I worked as a trackman for MoPac.
I caught something very similar on the the NS Youngstown Line in Hamburg, NY. at the end of August. You have more video than I was able to get. Excellent.
I worked on that machine in 1995!
this machne is a
WOW that'a an amazing machine from loram!!! I only got their rail grinder. Hopefully someday that i will catch this machine near my spot keep up the good work on your train spotting!!!!
i love the grinder seen it few times but is so cool!
@jandx44 I take a little offense to that statement, Im the superintendent for one of the newer cleaners the reason that there contracted out. its more profitable to lease the machine and crew under contract and there vary high maintenance. We are under the same rules and regulations that the rail road follow. this is an old video no safety vests mid 90's the rules changed.
This machine is the shoulder cleaner as it picks up the material from outside the ends of the ties. The other machine is more complicated as it has a chain that is threaded under the track and reassembled to make it continuous so the material under the ties is picked up. There are at least a couple of YT videos showing the larger machine. Either one can clean and replace the cleaned ballast or totally dump the reclaimed material depending on how fouled the ballast is. Either way new ballast will need to be added to bring the ballast cross-section back to what it is supposed to be.
Nice find
I moved one of these a couple months ago at the North Little Rock yard. Put it onto a train heading towards Pine Bluff
A telephoto lens distorts ground and railway line irregularities as it does fog and dust. Up close to the engine would be bad enough dust-wise, but not as extreme as the zoom-in shots suggest.
@flammabletube you are right on one point, they should have had respirators for the dust lung health is a big issue (Silicosis), your outer "the driver" is in constant radio communication with the ground men and the rear cab operators if we lose communication the operator stops till its reestablished.
It also gets rid of the ballast that trains have turn to powder and puts whole ballast back to act like a shock absorber.
this train made a stop down in kentucky a few years back but i didnt catch in action,i just got it as it was leaving :'(
As I grew up in the 50s, and 60s, we had two rail lines run through my town in mich, one north, south, and E/W, I never seen anything like this, they probley done it by hand, if they did it at all.
Do passenger trains still dump raw sewage directly onto the tracks & ballast
@RCKTBOY7 i missed,it was inez.it passed the crossing gate near the training center yesterday