Railways – Track layers – Track raising car
Patent
1988-05-20
1989-11-21
Cherry, Johnny D.
Railways
Track layers
Track raising car
104 12, E01B 2717
Patent
active
048814679
ABSTRACT:
A continuous action track maintenance or rehabilitation machine comprises a first machine frame, a carrier frame arranged between the undercarriages supporting the first machine frame on the track, ballast tamping and track lifting and lining units vertically adjustably mounted on the carrier frame, and a drive linking the carrier frame to the first machine frame for longitudinally displacing the carrier frame with respect thereto. A second machine frame is linked to the rear end of the first machine frame, and a plow arrangement is vertically adjustably mounted on the second machine frame between the undercarriages thereof, the plow arrangement comprising a drive connecting the plow arrangement to the second machine frame for vertically adjusting the plow arrangement with respect thereto, a center plow for plowing ballast between the rails of the track, shoulder plows for plowing ballast laterally adjacent each one of the rails, and a drive for operating each one of the plows.
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Cherry Johnny D.
Franz Plasser Bahn-baumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
Kelman Kurt
Williams, Jr. Frank
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