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.
MP loads, hauls, relays rail in jointed strings
Ry Track Structures
Railway Track and Structures ; 61 , n 4
1965
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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