Method of loading and unloading used rail in continuous jointed strings now being used by Missouri Pacific is described; equipment used was modified for handling jointed strings; quarter-mile lengths released from track are pulled on board 33-car rail train by special power unit and hauled directly to site where they are to be relaid; power unit, which is built on 50-ton flat car with 53-ft cast-steel underframe, uses 150-hp diesel engine to drive pair of pumps which force hydraulic fluid under 1500 psi to hydraulic motors for all functions on power car.


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    Titel :

    MP loads, hauls, relays rail in jointed strings


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Ry Track Structures


    Beteiligte:
    Plunkett, C.W. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1965


    Format / Umfang :

    3 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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