What amazes me just as much as this Machine does are the people who don't get amazed by this level of Engineering!! look at what this Machine does and what it must have taken to design and build something like this!
The machine that comes along afterwards to level the track is pretty amazing as well; I am geologist who worked on the Bethrunga Rail Spiral back in the 90s, amazing to watch it at work as I stopped for lunch...
This is awesome! It's so "easy" to build railroads in those times... let's remember how difficult was in the past to build railroads... Mirific video, thanks a lot for posting!
I was a surveyor for Southern Pacific Railroad about 40 years ago.I wonder what they used to instead of Men? I became a locomotive engineer, this is incredable, it would make for a very smooth ride.
I work with this machine (actualy, I'm the man in blue in the beginning 0:58) This machine is the P93 LS. It was build by Matisa, a Swiss company specialized in railroad construction machines, 20 Years ago. It was bought by the Belgian railroad in 1994. It does about 300 meters per hour. It is not the only one, there are a lot of newer and older track renewal machines working around the world.
Raised on U.S. railroads as a WWII kid. Steam Trains and 'Gandy Dancers' were my life. Walked the rails with Hobo's. Gandy's were overwhelmingly Mexican's. Lived in converted boxcars on the sidings. All 'Danced' to the orders of a bi-lingual, absolutely huge and powerful, German or Irish Foreman. Same on every section. End of WWII, Mexicans that had Not gotten educated and Citizenship, were all sent home. Returning troops took their places. History, Live it, to really Know it..
Dankjewel raimcameddy voor de prachtige video die je maakte van onze werf ! @ rolandvia: we finish up 200 to 300 metres an hour. We worked for 7 weekends at this track to replace 20 kilometres.
If I recall, historically, the railroads were built with hammers, big nails, and the collaboration of many people. And now...there are machines to facilitate the building of railroads? That's awesome!! Historicamente si me acuerdo, los ferrocarriles were construidos con martillos, clavos, y la colaboracion de muchas personas. Y ahora...hay maquinas para facilitar la construccion de los ferrocarriles? Muy impresionante!!
This is amazing and impressive! So many people in the general public today still think that railroad tracks are still laid by hand, picks, hammers, and shovels. They're the same yahoos that think that railroads don't employ modern technology. - Thank you for posting this vid :-)
La tecnología facilitando la vida. La aplicación del método científico. Sin saberlo, un ejemplo de lo que postula el Movimiento Zeitgeist! Maravilloso!
i would just like to say thank you for sharing such a brilliant video,one of quality, thank you (Ik zou alleen willen zeggen dat je bedanken voor het delen zulk een briljante video, een van de kwaliteit, dank u)
That is totally amazing, it boggles my mind to think of a bunch of engineers sitting at some drawing tables, and roughing out this idea and deciding "Hey this will work!"
I was on the first of these machines (It's called a P811) used on the Burlington Northern RR back in 1987 in Washington State. My Union agreed to a joint contractor/Union member project way back then. And we have been upgrading tracks and replacing wood ties for concrete ever since with this machine.
Let me explain a few things: First you see the P93 Track laying train (and its annex WP93) and the C75 ballast cleaner both made by MATISA, a Swiss based company. Then a SSP203 ballast regulator followed by the 09-3X tamping machine, both made by PLASSER&THEURER in Austria. All the machines you see are owned by Infabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure. There are many of these and more recent versions working around the world. Check out the websites of the constructors.
Reminds me of tunneling machines. Hopefully these machines will serve us and us not them. That is their purpose. To serve man and relieve us of the back breaking jobs. I drove thousands of spikes in the 70's while in my youth in Alberta Canada and so I appreciate this very much.
Maintenance on the automated equipment probably exceeds the effort to lay the rail by hand? Re-lay a turnout or cross and really impress me. In all, however, one IMPRESSIVE collection of machinery!
Já viajei para mais de 50países e acho o Brasil, surreal! Em 14anos que vivi fora, nunca vi um atrazo tão grande.Uma enrolação sem tamanho e uma corrução Jupiteriana! Sei do que estou falando.Morei em países do 1º e do3ºmundo.
@sliceman420 Like I wrote before: This one is caled the P93 LS made by the Swiss company MATISA in 1993 and owned by Infrabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure. There are many of these and more recent versions working around the world. Actually in almost every country where they have railroads (even China has at least one P95). Another company specialised in railroad construction machines is PLASSER&THEURER in Austria. Both are lonely at the top in this branch.
@LivingSquirel I'll try... 0:00-0:57 picking up concrete ties and transporting to the tie machine. :57-1:35 replacing the old ties. 1:35-1:55 final alignment of the new ties. 1:56-2:14 pulling the rails back in line. 2:15-2:49 clipping the rail onto the ties. 2:50-2:56 putting the old ballast back in place. 2:57-3:31 loosening up and replacing the rest of the old ballast. 3:32-4:02 detail ballast application. 4:03-4:51 tamping the ballast under the ties. 4:52-end topping off ballast.
Pois é... muito fascinante. Já trampei com essas geringonças na Vale... mas a primeira que aparece colocando os dormentes eu nunca tinha visto. mas recordar é viver.
Marx is such a genious!! Look how the capital sistem need to increase the fixed capital in order to stop the low profit tendence. This kind of development of machines not only reduces the time of working, also reduces the necesary time to do the same work, and show how the capital progress is, at the same time, the openning window to worst and worst capital estructural crisis.
@rolandvia This crew appears to be just replacing the ties and ballast. The train picks up the rail and spreads it so that the ties will roll up the conveyor without being hung up on the rail. After that the new ties roll down into place of the old ones. I would love to see them when they finnaly start to lay high speed rail.
Nota-se Overpelt fica na Bélgica. Perfeito. Trens é um dos mais eficaz, econômicos meio de transporte tanto para carga como de passageiro. BR no passado havia muito trens, hj infelizmente as concessionárias não "permitiam" mais que isso ocorresse. Um vagão de trem de carga, tira 7 caminhões da estrada. Melhoraria as condições da estrada, acidentes com caminhões por mostoristas usarem medicamentos para manter acordado, diminuiriam e muitas outras citações. Perfeito esta construção de ferrovia
An amazing video. Which country was this video shot in ? Although I have seen track tamping machines, have never seen a whole range of machines doing all the work from removing the old sleepers, installing new ones to setting the track.
@JulienVercel Hallo ! Wie gehts ?!! Well, mine Deuscht ist kein gut ! My husband discovered this video in internet, and we thought it was one of the most fantastic thing we had ever , ever imagined ! The up to date German Technology-amazing- ! Then today I saw your commentary that's it's an old technology ! Something 20 yrs old! Awesome ! Here , Brasil, it's still an all man's hard conventional work !
É um sistema sobre trilhos que remove o antigo trilho e vai recolocando novos. em um sitema quase todo automatizado. Muito bom. eu ainda acredito no poder das ferrovias. poderia ser melhor aproveitado no brasil. (as ferrovias)
No Brasil precisaria ter uma máquina dessa para cada estado, assim voltariamos a ver trens no país todo. Colocaríamos os bandidos que estão vivendo às nossas custas na cadeia para construir as estradas. Seria bom demais!
Amazing! Perfect ! This is what Brazil needs, progress, man working and linking Brazil fm North to South, and so on.... Parem de votar em Ladrões,.... Acorda Brasil, Wake up Brazil ! :-)
Po... acho legal ver pessoas que não entendem absolutamente nada de ferrovias falarem besteiras publicamente... Apenas para conhecimento de todos, gostaria de informar que as ferrovias da VALE possuem todas essas máquinas, ainda mais automatizadas que essas, e muitas outras. Dezenas de gringos vêm aqui todos os anos tanto ensinar quanto aprender com a gente.
Would love to see this with some kind of voice over explaining the various steps, seems there are far more than I would have guesses, very cool machine and vid!
@joetylerdale No, this is German-made machinery. Very high quality, much better than you can get from the PRC. Blows the American machines away too (go google AMTRAK track layers). There's a reason why people with lots of money buy German-made cars.
Anyone got a bit more play for play on this. Great vid but like I get sorta what the first minute is bringing in the blocks but I'd love a little more on whats happening.
I have seen this type of machinery operating at a distance, but had no idea just how intricate and complicated the process is. Fascinating!
What amazes me just as much as this Machine does are the people who don't get amazed by this level of Engineering!! look at what this Machine does and what it must have taken to design and build something like this!
How could 6 people dislike this? It is incredible!!!
As a railroader myself, and one that worked the tamper when we were replacing ties, I can really appreciate that.
This is something along the lines my little son wrote when he was about 4.
Excellent! We need these in the US.
We have them in the US. Search for 'Track Renewal Train,' there's lot of videos of them at work!
The machine that comes along afterwards to level the track is pretty amazing as well; I am geologist who worked on the Bethrunga Rail Spiral back in the 90s, amazing to watch it at work as I stopped for lunch...
I've worked track maintenance professionally, and this is the coolest machine I've ever seen! Sweet!
This is awesome! It's so "easy" to build railroads in those times... let's remember how difficult was in the past to build railroads... Mirific video, thanks a lot for posting!
I WORKED ON LINES IN SCOTLAND DOING THIS BY HAND ,HARD WORK SLOW AND ALL DONE AND NIGHT IN ALL WEATHER , HOW I WISH WE HAD THESE MACHINES
I was a surveyor for Southern Pacific Railroad about 40 years ago.I wonder what they used to instead of Men? I became a locomotive engineer, this is incredable, it would make for a very smooth ride.
I work with this machine (actualy, I'm the man in blue in the beginning 0:58) This machine is the P93 LS. It was build by Matisa, a Swiss company specialized in railroad construction machines, 20 Years ago. It was bought by the Belgian railroad in 1994. It does about 300 meters per hour. It is not the only one, there are a lot of newer and older track renewal machines working around the world.
Raised on U.S. railroads as a WWII kid. Steam Trains and 'Gandy Dancers' were my life. Walked the rails with Hobo's. Gandy's were overwhelmingly Mexican's. Lived in converted boxcars on the sidings. All 'Danced' to the orders of a bi-lingual, absolutely huge and powerful, German or Irish Foreman. Same on every section. End of WWII, Mexicans that had Not gotten educated and Citizenship, were all sent home. Returning troops took their places. History, Live it, to really Know it..
Dit is heel interessant om te zien. Ik had geen idee dat zo'n gigantische machines hier voor zorgden...
Dankjewel raimcameddy voor de prachtige video die je maakte van onze werf !
@ rolandvia: we finish up 200 to 300 metres an hour. We worked for 7 weekends at this track to replace 20 kilometres.
If I recall, historically, the railroads were built with hammers, big nails, and the collaboration of many people. And now...there are machines to facilitate the building of railroads? That's awesome!!
Historicamente si me acuerdo, los ferrocarriles were construidos con martillos, clavos, y la colaboracion de muchas personas. Y ahora...hay maquinas para facilitar la construccion de los ferrocarriles? Muy impresionante!!
DANKE and THANK YOU for this FORMIDABLE VIDEO !!!!
MERCI BEACOUP !!!!!
from SPAIN and ARGENTINA !!!
THANK YOU !
This is amazing and impressive! So many people in the general public today still think that railroad tracks are still laid by hand, picks, hammers, and shovels. They're the same yahoos that think that railroads don't employ modern technology. - Thank you for posting this vid :-)
La tecnología facilitando la vida. La aplicación del método científico. Sin saberlo, un ejemplo de lo que postula el Movimiento Zeitgeist!
Maravilloso!
Process Control engineering ! The most exciting job in the world ! I'm really proud of to be one of them !
i would just like to say thank you for sharing such a brilliant video,one of quality, thank you (Ik zou alleen willen zeggen dat je bedanken voor het delen zulk een briljante video, een van de kwaliteit, dank u)
That is totally amazing, it boggles my mind to think of a bunch of engineers sitting at some drawing tables, and roughing out this idea and deciding "Hey this will work!"
Prachtig gefilmd, zo heb je eens een mooi overzicht hoe het allemaal in zijn werk gaat!
I was on the first of these machines (It's called a P811) used on the Burlington Northern RR back in 1987 in Washington State. My Union agreed to a joint contractor/Union member project way back then. And we have been upgrading tracks and replacing wood ties for concrete ever since with this machine.
Very interesting and well done documentary step by step.
Thanks for posting.
Whoooo ! Quelle organisation ! Magnifique !
Let me explain a few things: First you see the P93 Track laying train (and its annex WP93) and the C75 ballast cleaner both made by MATISA, a Swiss based company. Then a SSP203 ballast regulator followed by the 09-3X tamping machine, both made by PLASSER&THEURER in Austria. All the machines you see are owned by Infabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure. There are many of these and more recent versions working around the world. Check out the websites of the constructors.
Reminds me of tunneling machines. Hopefully these machines will serve us and us not them. That is their purpose. To serve man and relieve us of the back breaking jobs. I drove thousands of spikes in the 70's while in my youth in Alberta Canada and so I appreciate this very much.
Have we forgotten who build the railroads 150 years ago, if life was that easy then?
The tamper in the later part of the video is SWEET!
Definitely not the days of Pierre Berton's "The Last Spike"! Awesome!
左手でITや大自然に強く惹かれながら、右手で土木の力にも感動してしまう。これは凄いもの。
Maintenance on the automated equipment probably exceeds the effort to lay the rail by hand? Re-lay a turnout or cross and really impress me. In all, however, one IMPRESSIVE collection of machinery!
Já viajei para mais de 50países e acho o Brasil, surreal!
Em 14anos que vivi fora, nunca vi um atrazo tão grande.Uma enrolação sem tamanho e uma corrução Jupiteriana! Sei do que estou falando.Morei em países do 1º e do3ºmundo.
@sliceman420 Like I wrote before: This one is caled the P93 LS made by the Swiss company MATISA in 1993 and owned by Infrabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure. There are many of these and more recent versions working around the world. Actually in almost every country where they have railroads (even China has at least one P95). Another company specialised in railroad construction machines is PLASSER&THEURER in Austria. Both are lonely at the top in this branch.
es una locura, alto proyecto de ingenieria diseñar estas maquinas.
Absolutely amazing. The wonders of technology.
Great and interesting video! Greetings from Latvia.
The most efficient machine ever seen!
wow! very impressive! wonderful engineering!
Execelente vídeo. As ferrovias exercem um fascínio em qualquer Engenheiro...
@Oroborus12 Yep, it's Belgium allright. On the machine you can read "Infrabel", the Belgium company that manages all the railway equipment.
@amaralgustavo
The machine in 4:30 is a ballast tamper or tamping machine.
excellent engineering ..very cool work.
Incredible video! Respect to author!
@LivingSquirel I'll try... 0:00-0:57 picking up concrete ties and transporting to the tie machine. :57-1:35 replacing the old ties. 1:35-1:55 final alignment of the new ties. 1:56-2:14 pulling the rails back in line. 2:15-2:49 clipping the rail onto the ties. 2:50-2:56 putting the old ballast back in place. 2:57-3:31 loosening up and replacing the rest of the old ballast. 3:32-4:02 detail ballast application. 4:03-4:51 tamping the ballast under the ties. 4:52-end topping off ballast.
Pois é... muito fascinante. Já trampei com essas geringonças na Vale... mas a primeira que aparece colocando os dormentes eu nunca tinha visto. mas recordar é viver.
That is amazing!!! Looks like it would be so much safer for the workers.
@godofwar007 trains are still one of the best ways to move people and goods. we need more of them.
Nunca antes neste país se construiu uma ferrovia assim. Este video mostra a construção de trecho da ferrovia Garanhuns - Recife
Great video! Short of new rail, that is a brand new line!
I love rails and trains!!
beautiful, i'm in total awe
Heel mooie video!
Wish Australia has that kind of efficiency and technology.
Marx is such a genious!! Look how the capital sistem need to increase the fixed capital in order to stop the low profit tendence. This kind of development of machines not only reduces the time of working, also reduces the necesary time to do the same work, and show how the capital progress is, at the same time, the openning window to worst and worst capital estructural crisis.
That's just amazing ! thanks
thanks for posting.
You find information looking in the google for Plasser & Teurer, it is a german company. You will find a complete page on it.
@rolandvia This crew appears to be just replacing the ties and ballast. The train picks up the rail and spreads it so that the ties will roll up the conveyor without being hung up on the rail. After that the new ties roll down into place of the old ones. I would love to see them when they finnaly start to lay high speed rail.
Human Ingenuity displayed clearly here!!!
Wonder if it can make curves? Pretty sweet, should try making one of these in LEGO sometime, lol!
@amaralgustavo
They are evenly distributing the ballast for the tracks by vibrating it into place
that is amazing. thanks to the poster!
Freaking amazing!
What's even more amazing, is the fact three people hit the "disliked" button...I'm going to assume they were drunk and high...
That's like the badass way to build the tracks.
Or should I say "Building the tracks in style, eh? "
@1brewski2 This one is made by the Swiss company Matisa in 1993 and owned by Infrabel, the manager of the Belgian railroad infrastructure.
Nota-se Overpelt fica na Bélgica.
Perfeito.
Trens é um dos mais eficaz, econômicos meio de transporte tanto para carga como de passageiro.
BR no passado havia muito trens, hj infelizmente as concessionárias não "permitiam" mais que isso ocorresse.
Um vagão de trem de carga, tira 7 caminhões da estrada. Melhoraria as condições da estrada, acidentes com caminhões por mostoristas usarem medicamentos para manter acordado, diminuiriam e muitas outras citações.
Perfeito esta construção de ferrovia
Bonjour
formidable ce que l'homme peut faire de bien.
Ça compense pour tout se qu'ils fait de mal.
@johnwest666 It is in BELGIUM!
what a lot of work! impressive! :)
@mtorquato :situa-se na Belgica. Acho muito intgeressante alguém escrever que there are not germans around. E a Siemens faz o que lá ? abraços, werner
Simply amazing. I'm sure Otto von Bismarck would be proud.
Excellent video!
Sensacional... é disso que precisamos no Brasil
An amazing video. Which country was this video shot in ? Although I have seen track tamping machines, have never seen a whole range of machines doing all the work from removing the old sleepers, installing new ones to setting the track.
@ Plasser & Theurer aktuellTV - Interesting reports from the world of track maintenance combined with international news.
@JulienVercel Hallo ! Wie gehts ?!! Well, mine Deuscht ist kein gut ! My husband discovered this video in internet, and we thought it was one of the most fantastic thing we had ever , ever imagined ! The up to date German Technology-amazing- ! Then today I saw your commentary that's it's an old technology ! Something 20 yrs old! Awesome ! Here , Brasil, it's still an all man's hard conventional work !
Excellent machine, any of these conditions would have to come to South America?
É um sistema sobre trilhos que remove o antigo trilho e vai recolocando novos. em um sitema quase todo automatizado. Muito bom. eu ainda acredito no poder das ferrovias. poderia ser melhor aproveitado no brasil. (as ferrovias)
I published this video on the Dutch website WELSTIJL (21 july) Kind regards Sem Mallée
in North America the Chinese immigrants built Canada and USA railroads connecting east to west!
Probably Chinese steel!
Amazing machines!
I guess it's time to retire that famous old song "I've been workin' on the rail road".
No Brasil precisaria ter uma máquina dessa para cada estado, assim voltariamos a ver trens no país todo. Colocaríamos os bandidos que estão vivendo às nossas custas na cadeia para construir as estradas. Seria bom demais!
Amazing! Perfect ! This is what Brazil needs, progress, man working and linking Brazil fm North to South, and so on.... Parem de votar em Ladrões,.... Acorda Brasil,
Wake up Brazil ! :-)
Man that is awesome!
It's in Belgium mate.
Po... acho legal ver pessoas que não entendem absolutamente nada de ferrovias falarem besteiras publicamente...
Apenas para conhecimento de todos, gostaria de informar que as ferrovias da VALE possuem todas essas máquinas, ainda mais automatizadas que essas, e muitas outras.
Dezenas de gringos vêm aqui todos os anos tanto ensinar quanto aprender com a gente.
They didnt show the bit where they stretch the rail so as to prevent it from buckling in heat.
Thx for sharing!
That would be the coolest transformer ever
Fantástico. Maravilhoso. Fantastic. Amazing.
Would love to see this with some kind of voice over explaining the various steps, seems there are far more than I would have guesses, very cool machine and vid!
@joetylerdale No, this is German-made machinery. Very high quality, much better than you can get from the PRC. Blows the American machines away too (go google AMTRAK track layers).
There's a reason why people with lots of money buy German-made cars.
That was fantastic.
Esto es fanstastico me gusto .. el transporte ferroviario es lo MEJORRRRR.. jeje
I just came because this is that awesome.
Alguem sabe onde fica isso??? Anyone know where is it??
Velice zajímavé video , to by naše tratě potřebovaly ...)
This is so cool!!
Anyone got a bit more play for play on this. Great vid but like I get sorta what the first minute is bringing in the blocks but I'd love a little more on whats happening.