HWY 111 laying new track

[SLOCONDR]

Close Marshall, but no cigar. If you change one word you will have it....

V

SLOCONDR

mkstarks Wrote:wrote:
T.R.T = Tie Replacement Train?

I was also out there all last weekend, and boy did the flood gates open as soon as the sunset. Had no idea that UP had so many trains. =P

[lrvto]

Oh the train runs down the Track, down the Track, down the Track. Are we warm?

[MikeF]

How about Track Renewal Train ?

[SLOCONDR]

Atta Boy Mike...... that's its. Like I said, once upon a time it was the P-811 but UP changed it to "Track Renewal Machine"

MikeF Wrote:
How about Track Renewal Train ?

[Amtrakdavis22]

You know V, when I first saw this title I thought HWY 101. I got real excited. That would just be UP wouldn't it. Having a line with almost 0 traffic and making it a double track. Hey thanks for the description.

[chuckmgr1]

SLOCONDR Wrote:Here is a brief description of the 8 photos.

3. This is either the head end of the T.R.T, or it is one of the support tie trains for the TRT. If the photo was closer I could be more exact.
4. This is Gantry crane on the T.R.T. It has rails running along both sides of each flat car so the Gantry can pick up the cement ties, starting at the front and moving them back to the TRT. There are anywhere from 2 to 3 Gantry's on each train.

V

SLOCONDR

TIE RENEWAL TRAIN ?

[TC Smith]

Point of order: The T.R.T. and the P-811 are two different aminals: One lays new track and the other can change out not only ties but rail as well. Which is which ? I'm not sure anymore ...


TCS - maybe they're indiscriminate about what it's called ..

[DeserTBoB]

(04-09-2009 09:56 AM)mkstarks Wrote:  T.R.T = Tie Replacement Train?

I was also out there all last weekend, and boy did the flood gates open as soon as the sunset. Had no idea that UP had so many trains. =P

This is the same operation that did the concrete tie/CWR job on Tehachapi awhile back. It's quite something to watch in action, but more amazing to see how much track they can relay in a very, VERY short amount of time. I first saw them at MP 377 under the swing-set sig bridge and they were going to town on the #1 track headed up. By the time I came down again in the PM, they were all the way up in the valley past Tehach, and were over on #2. Such a feat would've been impossible 25 years ago, even with an MOW army. It was all the more interesting to watch the "tie shuttle" gantry crane pick up a load of ties from the train, and then scoot toward the point, unload them, and scoot back again for another batch. Fascinating engineering at work here. For the amount of track and ties being laid, there were precious few people on the job, too, compared to years past.

[TC Smith]

It is indeed a most fascinating operation to witness from the old rails being peeled to the side, the old wooden ties scooped up, ballast plowed outward, new concrete ties dropped and spaced, new railed pulled into position (with and without a rail heater) and the whole operation rolling on unspiked and unclipped track. Those gantry cranes are a trip to watch, especially when they're shuttling both kinds of ties in opposite directions.


TCS - here's some, gimme those

[SLOCONDR]

(08-26-2010 04:46 PM)TC Smith Wrote:  Point of order: The T.R.T. and the P-811 are two different aminals: One lays new track and the other can change out not only ties but rail as well. Which is which ? I'm not sure anymore ...


TCS - maybe they're indiscriminate about what it's called ..

TC,
Both machines (or animals as you so eloquently called them) can remove the old rail and install the new rail at the same time. The T.R.T is the newer, and faster, machine. This new guy (chuckmgr1) on WCRF may know the particulars. How about it newbie?

V

SLOCONDR
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