Track surfacing

Details Track surfacing Track surfacing

1974-07-18

1976-03-16

Wood, Jr., M. H.

Railways

Track layers

Track raising car

104 12, E01B 2716

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039438570

ABSTRACT:
In track surfacing, a downward thrust is exerted upon the abutting ends of the adjacent rails at a rail joint, the abutting rail ends are simultaneously upwardly bent above the correct track level against the downward thrust and the ballast is tamped under the ties in the region of the joint. For this purpose, control means is arranged to discontinue actuation of the operating means of the track level correction means used to bend the abutting rail ends upwardly when the rail joint level has reached a set limit.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3274952 (1966-09-01), Fekete
patent: 3796160 (1974-03-01), Waters et al.
patent: 3811382 (1974-05-01), Buchter et al.

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