Ballast reconditioning apparatus with multiple excavating wheels

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1990-09-28

1992-05-05

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Railways

Track layers

37104, 171 16, E01B 2706

Patent

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051097753

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for excavating ballast from a railroad bed adjacent to the cross ties of a railroad track and for cleaning the excavated ballast for return thereof to the railroad bed. The apparatus includes a vehicle for supporting a pair of excavating assemblies on opposite sides of the support vehicle and thus on opposite sides of the railroad track and a discrete cleaning station for each of the separate excavating assemblies. Each cleaning station is disposed for receiving and cleaning the ballast excavated by the associated excavating assembly.

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