Railroad Question
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Unloading a Herzog Cartopper - YouTube
herzog cartopper - YouTube
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Unloading a Herzog Cartopper - YouTube
herzog cartopper - YouTube
Bruce
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I've seen those You Tube Videos. What happens if they burst a hose during a critical moment? I can't believe health and safety approve of such practices.
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Common practice around rail yards. You'll see track hoes doing the same thing. They also can easily go from car to car.
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T_e_r_r_y
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Can't tell what is on the end of the boom. Could be a clam shell for unloading ballast, a set of tongs for unloading track or switch ties or a
magnet for unloading loose items ie: anchors, kegs of spikes, kegs of bolts, loose tie plates or bags of clips for the concrete ties..
That backhoe is probably owned by the Herzog company. When I had my heart attack and a triple bypass in Colorado, retired in 2013 with 40 years and a month. Herzog used to have a lot of have a lot of contracted equipment on railroad property.
The last 8 years I worked on a unloading gang, distributing plates, spikes and anchors. We spread material in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas. Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah and Colorado,. We used a tracker, made by John Deere. Google The Brandt Company of Canada. Check their web site, it should show the machines they sell and rent.
T. J.
magnet for unloading loose items ie: anchors, kegs of spikes, kegs of bolts, loose tie plates or bags of clips for the concrete ties..
That backhoe is probably owned by the Herzog company. When I had my heart attack and a triple bypass in Colorado, retired in 2013 with 40 years and a month. Herzog used to have a lot of have a lot of contracted equipment on railroad property.
The last 8 years I worked on a unloading gang, distributing plates, spikes and anchors. We spread material in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas. Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah and Colorado,. We used a tracker, made by John Deere. Google The Brandt Company of Canada. Check their web site, it should show the machines they sell and rent.
T. J.
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Yep, I've seen them unloading a rail car into dump trucks and going from one car to the next. Pretty interesting to watch.
oosik
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I've seen the RR unload "stuff" from various types of rail cars - but never like that. Around here they use a large hydraulic boom - either permanently mounted on a rail car or a tracked rig on a flat-bed rail car or a tracked rig on the ground beside a flat-bed rail car. That operation reminds me of a grasshopper.
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Not much different that loading on a truck except higher