Machine for laterally displacing a track

Railways – Track layers – Track raising car

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104 8, 104 12, E01B 2717

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049036084

ABSTRACT:
A machine for laterally displacing a track comprises at least one vertically adjustable tamping head having reciprocable vibratory tools for tamping ballast under the ties; a compact operating unit comprising a common carrier frame, a vertically and laterally adjustable device for lifting and laterally displacing the track mounted on the common carrier frame and including rail engaging roller tools, and a vertically and longitudinally adjustable device for orienting obliquely positioned ties to assume an orientation extending substantially perpendicularly to the track in the common plane, the tie orienting device being mounted on the common carrier frame and including a tie engaging tool; and power-actuated drives linking the carrier frame of the operating unit to the machine frame for vertically and laterally adjusting the carrier frame.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4341160 (1982-07-01), Nielsen
patent: 4457234 (1984-07-01), Theurer et al.
patent: 4636541 (1986-12-01), Theurer et al.

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