At the WSOR’s Johnson St. Yard, there is some interesting MOW equipment sitting there. Does anybody know what it is?
One part of the MOW equipment
The other part
All of it
What’s this for?
This is what I think is a tie remover
Steel, grease and rust[:D]
Ma, will you pass the hydraulic oil?[dinner]
Ahhh, railroading…
The track that goes to Webcrafters printing, which the mystery MOW cars were sitting on.
no idea what it is, but i wouldnt want to step in front of it! [xx(]
The Mudchicken could probably give this thing a name, but it’s for installation of replacement ties. The part you pictured second makes a trench in the ballast for the new tie, and the backhoe-like apparatus on the other end just sticks the tie in from one side of the track, under the rails. Other machines follow up for holding the tie against the rails (after plates have been manually inserted) and spiking it tightly.
That’s actually two MoW machines sitting right next to each other I think. The first is a tie inserter; it’s very much like a backhoe, only instead of a bucket, it has a claw sort of a thing to pick up ties and slide them under the rail. Somewhere around here I’ve got a short movie I took of a WSOR machine like that working here in Reedsburg.
The second looks like a machine that would be used to clean out the slot where a new tie will go. After one machine removes the old tie, this machine would come along and get a channel cleared in the roadbed and ballast for the new tie to be inserted into. You can see two gaps in what I’d call the brush where the rail would be, so that it can sink down below the level of the rail.
Noah
One (with the wicked teeth) is an old Kershaw Model 34 tie scarifier, the other is an even older Kershaw or Nordberg tie shear (cuts what’s left of tie in half to ease removal, tie butt maker )…pretty good indication that your roadbed is shot if these things are around (albeit with a fresh coat of paint) and that the mudmonster/lack of maintenance won.
I beleive the 1st pic is a tie handler or inserter,I guess you could use it for that but we never did on the MK&T…
Danny
I think that is a Fairmont scarifier. I don’t know what kind of inserter that is.