Friend's traveling through Uzbekistan and took a photo of this, what on earth is it?
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Track snow clearer?
Soviet era rolling stock 😉
Ballast machine thing? (I'm sure there's a proper name for it)
Yep, it's definitely not a spoon
Tamper
it Boris Prime, transformer cousin from Russia
Rogue SS-24 Scalpel 😈
it's where they kill the kittens and turn them into Big Mac's/Whoppers after the wheel size threads
I would reckon a tamper too. Also available here.
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It seems more complicated than a tamper. Adjustable gauge for European/Russian/chinese track?
They jack up the long distance passenger train and swap the bogies where it changes. Takes about 6 hours.
I thought tamper and the linkages were part of the alignment mechanism, but what're the sideways bucket type things for?
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Is it 650b ?
The inboard linkages on those sideways bucket things make them look like feet on stabilising legs that spread out to give a wide base. Does a tamper deploy legs?
Ask on a trainspotting forum. Bet you'll get build date and serial numbers. 🙂
not this in disguise is it?
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I don't know what a tamper is but that looks like a track laying machine.
What's a tamper? Is it to level new track?
Genuine question. The only tamper I know is a coffee tamper a la Chris King.....
What's a tamper? Is it to level new track?Genuine question. The only tamper I know is a coffee tamper a la Chris King.....
Industrial-strength version, does exactly the same thing, tamping-down to make sure rails and ballast are firmly settled, so there's no movement when rolling stock goes over the track.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_tamper
Tamper or stoneblower