Ah yeschanged times indeed....

[spudfan]

Remember the auld days when a group of blokes would go out with picks and shovels to work on the tracks? Well have a look at this. Scroll down to the section headed "First Building phase: 142 kilometres of track" then to  "Permanent way newly constructed". Now that is some serious gear, but there probably is a bloke with a shovel somewhere about......https://www.plassertheurer.com/en/media-library/documentaries/face-lift-for-high-speed-lines.html?utm_source=rg&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=NL1912en

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by spudfan

[DiveController]

That's the way to do it (.....if you're actually interested in building a railway infrastructure). Just look at the freight traffic running at night at up to 100mph.

[spudfan]

Do you think the hierarchy at IRM towers have watched the video and hatched their next release? Imagine the cost of a working model as per the video!

[Glenderg]

1 hour ago, spudfan said:

Do you think the hierarchy at IRM towers have watched the video and hatched their next release? Imagine the cost of a working model as per the video!

Superb video..! Is it the RM 90 machine that IE have? Min curve is not suited to second radius, to say the least! 

Just eyeballing those drawings yer man had pinned up, I'd say you are in the order of 6 foot, maybe 7 as a piece of rolling stock. It would be a mammoth scratchbuild, I've often toyed with the daydreaming bit, especially for outdoor layouts.

If you did make it, it would have to have scale speed, lay ballast and glue, clean the sleepers, make an espresso, then add a shot of "good stuff", and deliver it to the thirsty operator. *

Richie

*not actual specs 

[Mayner]

In a strange way not so new in terms of technology at -all the gantry crane arrangement used for continuously supplying sleepers and taking away old rails appears to be based on the Bretland Track Re-laying machine developed by the MGWR in the 1920s. The arrangement of the gantry crane (Conveyor) running on rails on the material wagons to feed the re-laying machine is pure Bretland, the Bretland system was licensed to Morris Tracklayers in the UK who built a tracklaying machine that was used on the LNER & BR (E) up to the 1960s.

In away these track-relaying machines were ahead of their time as the preparation work prior to the relay and lining and leveling to achieve line speed had to be done manually by vast armies of men until suitable machinery was developed from the 1950s onwards.