What amazes me just as much as this Machine does are the people who don't get amazed by this level of Engineering!! look at what this Machine does and what it must have taken to design and build something like this!
The machine that comes along afterwards to level the track is pretty amazing as well; I am geologist who worked on the Bethrunga Rail Spiral back in the 90s, amazing to watch it at work as I stopped for lunch...
This is awesome! It's so "easy" to build railroads in those times... let's remember how difficult was in the past to build railroads... Mirific video, thanks a lot for posting!
Raised on U.S. railroads as a WWII kid. Steam Trains and 'Gandy Dancers' were my life. Walked the rails with Hobo's. Gandy's were overwhelmingly Mexican's. Lived in converted boxcars on the sidings. All 'Danced' to the orders of a bi-lingual, absolutely huge and powerful, German or Irish Foreman. Same on every section. End of WWII, Mexicans that had Not gotten educated and Citizenship, were all sent home. Returning troops took their places. History, Live it, to really Know it..
I work with this machine (actualy, I'm the man in blue in the beginning 0:58) This machine is the P93 LS. It was build by Matisa, a Swiss company specialized in railroad construction machines, 20 Years ago. It was bought by the Belgian railroad in 1994. It does about 300 meters per hour. It is not the only one, there are a lot of newer and older track renewal machines working around the world.
That is totally amazing, it boggles my mind to think of a bunch of engineers sitting at some drawing tables, and roughing out this idea and deciding "Hey this will work!"
I was on the first of these machines (It's called a P811) used on the Burlington Northern RR back in 1987 in Washington State. My Union agreed to a joint contractor/Union member project way back then. And we have been upgrading tracks and replacing wood ties for concrete ever since with this machine.
I was a surveyor for Southern Pacific Railroad about 40 years ago.I wonder what they used to instead of Men? I became a locomotive engineer, this is incredable, it would make for a very smooth ride.
If I recall, historically, the railroads were built with hammers, big nails, and the collaboration of many people. And now...there are machines to facilitate the building of railroads? That's awesome!! Historicamente si me acuerdo, los ferrocarriles were construidos con martillos, clavos, y la colaboracion de muchas personas. Y ahora...hay maquinas para facilitar la construccion de los ferrocarriles? Muy impresionante!!
La tecnología facilitando la vida. La aplicación del método científico. Sin saberlo, un ejemplo de lo que postula el Movimiento Zeitgeist! Maravilloso!
Dankjewel raimcameddy voor de prachtige video die je maakte van onze werf ! @ rolandvia: we finish up 200 to 300 metres an hour. We worked for 7 weekends at this track to replace 20 kilometres.
An amazing video. Which country was this video shot in ? Although I have seen track tamping machines, have never seen a whole range of machines doing all the work from removing the old sleepers, installing new ones to setting the track.
This is amazing and impressive! So many people in the general public today still think that railroad tracks are still laid by hand, picks, hammers, and shovels. They're the same yahoos that think that railroads don't employ modern technology. - Thank you for posting this vid :-)
Let me explain a few things: First you see the P93 Track laying train (and its annex WP93) and the C75 ballast cleaner both made by MATISA, a Swiss based company. Then a SSP203 ballast regulator followed by the 09-3X tamping machine, both made by PLASSER&THEURER in Austria. All the machines you see are owned by Infabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure. There are many of these and more recent versions working around the world. Check out the websites of the constructors.
i would just like to say thank you for sharing such a brilliant video,one of quality, thank you (Ik zou alleen willen zeggen dat je bedanken voor het delen zulk een briljante video, een van de kwaliteit, dank u)
Reminds me of tunneling machines. Hopefully these machines will serve us and us not them. That is their purpose. To serve man and relieve us of the back breaking jobs. I drove thousands of spikes in the 70's while in my youth in Alberta Canada and so I appreciate this very much.
Maintenance on the automated equipment probably exceeds the effort to lay the rail by hand? Re-lay a turnout or cross and really impress me. In all, however, one IMPRESSIVE collection of machinery!
Pois é... muito fascinante. Já trampei com essas geringonças na Vale... mas a primeira que aparece colocando os dormentes eu nunca tinha visto. mas recordar é viver.
Hallo, is het mogelijk deze video te verkrijgen in de originele kwaliteit en vooral geluid. RU-vid degradeerd toch wel redelijk veel en ik vind het een zeer knappe video. Wil zelfs eventueel een dvdtje betalen als een file sharing service niet mogelijk is. Bedankt.
Já viajei para mais de 50países e acho o Brasil, surreal! Em 14anos que vivi fora, nunca vi um atrazo tão grande.Uma enrolação sem tamanho e uma corrução Jupiteriana! Sei do que estou falando.Morei em países do 1º e do3ºmundo.
@sliceman420 Like I wrote before: This one is caled the P93 LS made by the Swiss company MATISA in 1993 and owned by Infrabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure. There are many of these and more recent versions working around the world. Actually in almost every country where they have railroads (even China has at least one P95). Another company specialised in railroad construction machines is PLASSER&THEURER in Austria. Both are lonely at the top in this branch.
Would love to see this with some kind of voice over explaining the various steps, seems there are far more than I would have guesses, very cool machine and vid!
@LivingSquirel I'll try... 0:00-0:57 picking up concrete ties and transporting to the tie machine. :57-1:35 replacing the old ties. 1:35-1:55 final alignment of the new ties. 1:56-2:14 pulling the rails back in line. 2:15-2:49 clipping the rail onto the ties. 2:50-2:56 putting the old ballast back in place. 2:57-3:31 loosening up and replacing the rest of the old ballast. 3:32-4:02 detail ballast application. 4:03-4:51 tamping the ballast under the ties. 4:52-end topping off ballast.
bonjour Marie Rose, oui comme tu dit,et dire que les homme fessais cela a la main avant, tu devrais regarde a la télé (super construction) tu connais??
@JulienVercel Hallo ! Wie gehts ?!! Well, mine Deuscht ist kein gut ! My husband discovered this video in internet, and we thought it was one of the most fantastic thing we had ever , ever imagined ! The up to date German Technology-amazing- ! Then today I saw your commentary that's it's an old technology ! Something 20 yrs old! Awesome ! Here , Brasil, it's still an all man's hard conventional work !
@Mangina9000 Was that even English? And for the record, it wasn't people laying tracks that worked America out of the Great Depression. It was the superheating of the U.S. Economy caused by world War II that finally ended the depression. Still, your comment must have sounded great when your college professor said it, huh?
@rolandvia This crew appears to be just replacing the ties and ballast. The train picks up the rail and spreads it so that the ties will roll up the conveyor without being hung up on the rail. After that the new ties roll down into place of the old ones. I would love to see them when they finnaly start to lay high speed rail.
