Railroad Question
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Unloading a Herzog Cartopper - YouTube
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Unloading a Herzog Cartopper - YouTube
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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.
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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.
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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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Showing off!
Not much different that loading on a truck except higher
CreekyB
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That contractor (Herzog) runs the rail here at work. Those machines see an amazing level of maintenance and inspection. Not that you won't still bust a hose that doesn't look bad.... Statistically, crawling into a rail car with a backhoe is among the safest of the things they do in M.O.W. operations.
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I've seen them staging cross ties for replacement picking them from the car and placing them on the side of the track.
Fun to watch!
Fun to watch!
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I was a carman for about 5 years. (worked on cars) While doing that and living along a main line, one summer a steel gang train came to town and switched one set tracks to ribbon. Seen many interesting things being done. This line seen a full train every 20 minutes. It of course was a double or 2 sets of tracks.
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My thinking is this. I am told that I should not work under loader. Why? I am guessing, because a hose may burst. But these guys can move a machine around, high in the air, relying totally on the integrity of their hydraulics. I just find that strange. I would not want to be in a 580K that falls sideways off of a rail car wearing a seat belt or not.
Yes, there can be stringent maintenance. But let's say the hose fitting die isn't right for the manufacturer of the particular hose, and suddenly the (new) replacement is an accident waiting to happen. I've heard about such things.
Yes, there can be stringent maintenance. But let's say the hose fitting die isn't right for the manufacturer of the particular hose, and suddenly the (new) replacement is an accident waiting to happen. I've heard about such things.
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Hydraulics designed with check valves.
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Yep, makes me wonder if (in the interest of safety) that use piloted check valves.
Same thing aerial lift equipment uses (and probably cranes too). Wouldnt be hard to add that to the loader and outriggers. Then the only way of failure would be mechanical failure of the cylinder rod or cylinder barrel.
Anytime working up high....there is always a risk of some type of failure.
Same thing aerial lift equipment uses (and probably cranes too). Wouldnt be hard to add that to the loader and outriggers. Then the only way of failure would be mechanical failure of the cylinder rod or cylinder barrel.
Anytime working up high....there is always a risk of some type of failure.
