Railway Ballast Cleaning Machine on a high-speed railway line

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The RMW 1500 high capacity ballast cleaning machine from the manufacturer Plasser & Theurer was used in June 2019 on the high-speed railway line Hannover-Göttingen. The 150 meter long machine can clean up to 1,500 m³ of ballast per hour. The ballast is removed with a 35 cm high excavating chain. The clearing width can be set between 4.05 and 5.5 meters. The track bed cleaning machine was followed by a high output railway track laying machine, which renewed rails and sleepers: • Railway Track Laying M...
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@MrUtubeobia 2 жыл бұрын

How long did it take to design and build this complex machine. What a marvel of engineering.

@douglasgallardojr4759 Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly! It levitates the sleepers while riding on the rail!

@a.n.7863 Жыл бұрын

I immediately thought of that show “Modern Marvels” upon coming across this video.

@stopbunsen 2 жыл бұрын

Looks really impressive! It just looks like it has so many moving parts. It would require a lot of maintenance itself

@dopplerfox 4 жыл бұрын

I thought that thumbnail showed some horrific rail accident, but this is some impressive engineering!

@buizelmeme6288 2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@drankfrebin 2 жыл бұрын

Yes as well

@Laluan 2 жыл бұрын

Same 🤣

@mercuriallimit 2 жыл бұрын

It is well captured and edited too! First time seeing this, quite amazing actually

@danieljones2924 2 жыл бұрын

The saying "I wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire" has now been replaced with "I wouldn't give you sleeping pills if a ballast cleaning machine went past your house"

@Spingerex 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@goodorusty 2 жыл бұрын

That machine must be so loud in real life. Amazing what machines exist out there!

@nacnud_ Жыл бұрын

Now, more human time into projects like this, less into destruction. Amazing stuff!

@Crazcompart 2 жыл бұрын

Woww! Heard about them, but never saw one in operation before! Strips the rail bed of all the ballast with the accumulation of oil, fuel, garbage, grease, debris, etc. that gets into the rocks over time, and then puts fresh ballast back again...

@OriginalJetForMe Жыл бұрын

How does it get it under the sleepers without causing them to settle substantially once they’re back down with weight on top?

@otlseal9159 Жыл бұрын

@@OriginalJetForMe am told its because you cant compress the ballast any more than how it lands

@humbleopinion1499 2 жыл бұрын

Great video - I guess many of us never realize the maintenance that goes into a railway track.

@k3w1b3an5 2 жыл бұрын

The combination of size, power and complexity boggles my mind.

@davidbrady5618 11 ай бұрын

Recently finished a project involving tons of rocks and it was such damn hard work. So watching this machine scoop them up from underneath an active track like they are peanuts is mind bending.

@byzanttine 2 жыл бұрын

To say this is an engineering marvel would be an understatement.

@ShipsYouShouldKnow 4 жыл бұрын

Es ist doch immer wieder faszinierend zu sehen, was es für Maschinen gibt. Tolle und interessante Aufnahmen mal wieder von Dir ... klasse Film 👍 Gruß Carsten

@kdwaynec Жыл бұрын

Glad I found this again. I was trying to explain to my son how this worked. It still blows my mind how 'flimsy' the tracks are once the ballast is removed.

@alphajava761 2 жыл бұрын

Can you image the time waiting at a rail crossing for this thing to go by.

@TheAutisticCapricorn811 11 ай бұрын

Aaow man, this is such a fascinating railroading process. This reminds me of that super neat story called "Ballast" in the Small Railway Engines book of the Railway Series. I just love how real live railroading job experiences are put into stories. I'm hearing a nice narration of this video in relation of a railroad line being constructed or reconstructed, all in my head.

@HarukiYamamoto 2 жыл бұрын

WOW! That's not a machine. It's a factory on wheels.

@inselvideo 4 жыл бұрын

Sehr interessante Technik hast Du da wieder gefilmt. Beeindruckend was da für ein Aufwand getrieben wird und wie lang auch diese Maschine ist. Die Bildqualität ist toll, hab es auch in HDR geschaut. Tolle Farben und auch die Schattenbereiche haben eine schöne Durchzeichnung. Klasse gemacht! Daumen hoch! Gruss inselvideo!

@MachineHeadDissent 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating how that works!!...🤙😎🤘

@ianthomson5382 2 жыл бұрын

This is up there with Tunnel Boring Machines as among the most awesome machines I have ever seen ..

@hermask815 2 жыл бұрын

Now that’s a reason to wear a ffp2 mask.

@douglasgallardojr4759 Жыл бұрын

YES

@mrmofo36 2 жыл бұрын

this woulda been great in a bond movie

@bosatsu76 2 жыл бұрын

More impressive than the monstrosity of the machine itself are the brains that came up with the idea and pushed it through the engineering and manufacturing...

@timothyward8564 2 жыл бұрын

When I started on the RR and I started seeing some of the track equipment ,,I learned the power of hydraulic fluid

@arboristo4407 4 ай бұрын

Incredibly amazing system. Couple centuries of ingenuity rail is the way.❤️👍🤠

@kenhurley4441 2 жыл бұрын

This machinge really "rocks" on!

@kepler186f4 2 жыл бұрын

To borrow a line from Volkswagen.... "the finest of German technology. This is far beyond anything America needs.

@JG40061 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing!!

@lindaterrell5535 3 жыл бұрын

Holy guacamole, it’s a whole factory!

@Unimedien 4 жыл бұрын

Klasse Video von dem Einsatz dieser Bahnbautechnik. Daumen hoch. Gruß Unimedien.

@TheSRBgamer63 4 ай бұрын

What a simple looking machine .....

@ARockRaider 2 жыл бұрын

Very Interesting! I never knew but am not surprised that intermodal hoppers are a thing. What does surprise me is that there aren't water systems to keep all that dust down!

@javeedsultan8484 2 жыл бұрын

Would image it has the capability to suppress dust some how, especially in built up areas, Not sure using water would be practical,, even if you recycle it you would still need a lot

@douglasgallardojr4759 Жыл бұрын

They wouldn't be able to sort out the detritus effectively/efficiently if the ballast were wet.

@TheWizardGamez Жыл бұрын

@@javeedsultan8484 how would you recycle it? He’s talking about airborne dust. The water is lost to the air. Unless you got a condenser it’s already an accounted loss. Besides it’s not even going to be that much water. Anyways, the machine was probably just complex enough that they said “Fuck it, we already made a train that can ride hovering rails,”

@mrbig9595 2 ай бұрын

Uk fleet has dust suppression

@zenflowerpeace4384 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! I never knew all it takes to maintain and run the trains efficiently!

@naterbaternaterbater 2 жыл бұрын

For sure! Train and car wheels need to be turned on a lathe to reshape them. The rails need to be ground back to a proper shape. The rocks (shown in this video) need to be cleaned of debris and gunk. Ties need to be released. When a train derails, it's an automatic 1 million dollar fine plus cost of labor to undo the derailment (plus loss of productivity) Maintenance is extremely important!

@johnnycee5179 Жыл бұрын

It's just unbelievable the amount of work needed to maintain tracks.

@batman_2004 Жыл бұрын

Amazing beautiful machine.

@farmerdave7965 2 жыл бұрын

The undercutter is my favorite machine.

@TheGuruNetOn 2 жыл бұрын

The Incredibles : "I am the Underminer!! I'm beneath you, but nothing is beneath me!!"

@googoo-gjoob 8 ай бұрын

just what a RR loves to see.... MOW on *both tracks*

@HM-nh7nc Жыл бұрын

Wow, really impressive. So much work over there and time consuming. Where are the used/old ballast taken via the other cargo train?

@J3scribe 10 ай бұрын

Not technically "cleaning" ballast, but replacing it, which is just as impressive. New ballast is fed from the long string of hoppers ahead of the ballast shredder. There is some storage of old ballast behind. The dirty ballast is being off-loaded onto the hopper train on the adjacent rail line at 3:40. There's a cool segment at 2:38 where you see the conveyor system replacing old versus new aggregate. The conveyor for the older stone is wider because it's dirtier, hence larger. This video is cool AF. In the USA, Herzog and Loram have automated this process to the point where operators don't have to wear PPE to protect themselves from harmful particulates. 4:25 They work in environmentally controlled workspaces on the train.

@carlislehendersonthethird7799 7 ай бұрын

Not exactly. This is definitely cleaning and reusing the ballast. That’s what the shaker units are for. I worked for years on one of these. They use a combination of new and recycled ballast.

@tetracor 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing !!!

@Misha29ify 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most fascinating things I have seen

@EtzEchad 2 жыл бұрын

What a huge machine! There must be a way to get load it with new ballast since they are offloading a lot of the old, but the video didn't show it. How do they ensure that the ballast gets under the ties?

@yiply42 2 жыл бұрын

I think at 2:14 it shows at least some of the ballast being replaced and it looks like there are little brushes that push it off of the ties around 2:00

@Pystro 2 жыл бұрын

@@yiply42 I bet it recycles enough of the ballast to allow the sleepers to rest on top of that, and the ballast for above the bottom face of the sleepers can be put in by the rail laying machine.

@Laluan 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@pathankarimkhan2303 2 жыл бұрын

What a machine 👌👌👌

@stevenjordan9497 Жыл бұрын

UNREAL.

@fishbone08070 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing..

@johnnycee5179 Жыл бұрын

Wow, what a machine

@Wolfgodmak 3 жыл бұрын

Rocks, rocks and more rocks

@ear2thestreet 4 жыл бұрын

Sehr tolle Aufnahmen. Die Herrschaften haben wirklich einen brutalen Job...Staub und Lärm bis zum Umfallen.

@terry_willis 2 жыл бұрын

Richtig

@FallOfTheLiving 2 жыл бұрын

here i was thinking it was cleaning on the loco itself and replacing with the same stock with additional ballast to sure it up. Instead they process it offsite? or do they dispose of it

@hans983 4 жыл бұрын

Rolling Stones

@kmranmustafa9489 3 жыл бұрын

Good Man

@pfridell8424 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! I am truly impressed!! What was it doing with the rocks that it put in the railway cars? I would love to see one of these babies live.

@douglasgallardojr4759 Жыл бұрын

The rocks are called ballast and this machine is replacing and/or cleaning it. The ballast being loaded into the other railway cars is probably going to be cleaned and reused.

@noahpettit557 11 ай бұрын

Ah thanks. So the machine on the rails is not actually cleaning the stones themselves but replacing with fresh ballast?

@johnaugsburger6192 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@terry_willis 2 жыл бұрын

Video does not show or explain how the ballast is cleaned.

@ahillmann Жыл бұрын

I wonder what detergent they are using to clean the ballast. I would like to use it to clean my dishes.

@orionharmon6017 2 жыл бұрын

Railroad rocks are called railroad ballast, I never knew that I was trying to figure out that how rocks like that are made but these railroad cleaning machines right here are insane putting new railroad ballast into the rails. We have railroad machines like that makes new rails and ballast, Norfolk Southern, Conrail, Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific, CSX, Amtrak and others they all have railroad machines like that making new rails, ties/sleepers and ballast for them.

@frizky._ 2 жыл бұрын

ballast not ballest

@orionharmon6017 2 жыл бұрын

@@frizky._ Oh well excuse me that confuses me sometimes.

@frizky._ 2 жыл бұрын

@@orionharmon6017 it's ok

@orionharmon6017 2 жыл бұрын

@@frizky._ But thanks for letting me know that by the way;) 👍🏽

@frizky._ 2 жыл бұрын

@@orionharmon6017 you're welcome

@Mahdi-wb9nw 2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@timkis64 Жыл бұрын

the complexity of the maintenence machines the rail companies have is mind boggling.im sure the cost of them is equally mind boggling.

@DrTWG Жыл бұрын

Thumb looked like a mass accident/derailment. Very impressive machine . This is 2+2=4 Engineering .

@spaceboy5293 2 ай бұрын

this is nuts

@christianuhlemann5688 4 жыл бұрын

Geiles Gerät, aber wenn die den Schotter verladen, im Dorf - lauft ! Bei uns war das halbe Dorf grau 😉😂

@fredflintstoner596 2 жыл бұрын

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"

@agefvlog6267 4 жыл бұрын

Joss👍👍🙏🔔🔔

@legotechnictrains8999 2 ай бұрын

Oh baby!

@bradfordthompson8326 Жыл бұрын

To us it's exciting to see a country and a team to be innovative and design things to better each of our lifes.....Its extremely sad to see Hatred in this beautiful world that God put us in Hatred is just Non economic Production...

@ausbare140 2 жыл бұрын

Great video I would like to know or see how the ballast is cleaned on a single line track.

@Pystro 2 жыл бұрын

No high speed rail would be single track. But I don't see why it wouldn't be possible as long as your right of way is wide enough for trucks to drive up next to the machine. Or the belt could possibly be modified to load a single rail car in front of the front end. Then you'd need a single shunting locomotive which has to haul those single cars to the next switch where you can couple them together for the rest of the trip over the rail system.

@shihabudheenoachira6510 Жыл бұрын

സൂപ്പർ

@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 2 жыл бұрын

European infrastructure is decades ahead of the US.

@dennisyoung4631 2 жыл бұрын

Which needs addressing, given that Rail is going to become a much bigger issue in the coming years…

@coolcat-nq4mj 2 жыл бұрын

US road infrastructure is decades ahead of Europe's

@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 2 жыл бұрын

@@coolcat-nq4mj Lol, is that what you tell yourself?

@rickakashockshockey9151 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but a lot smaller area.

@acidset 2 жыл бұрын

@@rickakashockshockey9151 that's no excuse, if anything the bigger the population (and also the area) the greater the need for infrastructure

@Cline3911 Жыл бұрын

Today, weez is learnin about rawks.

@hanskostka6788 2 жыл бұрын

Does this only exist in Germany or do other countries also clean their "Schotter" ?

@Chris.Davies Жыл бұрын

I guess expecting a high-speed version of this. Set playback speed to 2x. :)

@central3425 2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe it goes under the ties like that

@florianrose7493 3 жыл бұрын

Auf welcher Webseite steht wo gerade das Gleisbett Repariert wird

@timeforbeans Жыл бұрын

This video makes me want to stat TUBTHUMPING 👯💃👯💃👯💃👯💃

@EvilBaggOBolts Жыл бұрын

Everything in Germany is well maintained and engineered perfectly.

@douglasgallardojr4759 Жыл бұрын

They've had a couple of chances to start over with new technology.

@tsuchan 11 ай бұрын

Oh my word!

@peterpetersen4619 Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that something like this was necessary. if someone had told me that the stones had to be cleaned and sorted and that there was such a complex and large machine, I would have thought them crazy.

@jonhelmer8591 2 жыл бұрын

How much are they? I want one.

@AhsanulHolikin 4 жыл бұрын

Serba canggih 🖒

@BLUESKY-zt1nv 2 жыл бұрын

Where can i buy a second hand rail ballast cleaning machine from ..? how much would one cost in the UK ...?

@bobsum1745 2 жыл бұрын

Try on EBay.

@veramae4098 2 жыл бұрын

Why such a long line of machines? Are they cleaning the ballast over and over again, or do different machines do different actions, or ... what else?

@EliasProbst 11 ай бұрын

Most of the length is taken up by wagons providing fresh ballast and wagons for dumping the old dirty one. They serve as a buffer until the train on the parallel tracks comes along, refills the fresh ones and takes away the dirty ones.

@JohnWalker-rt6ue 2 жыл бұрын

Is the ballast cleaned on site, or is it taken elsewhere, and replaced by clean ballast?

@ricmiddletown7685 Жыл бұрын

its sorted and classified as it moves, the small is removed, the dust is removed by vibration and extra is available on other cars. the small and debris is removed. it truly is amazing machinery

@123Attack 4 жыл бұрын

Hallo... FROM INDONESIA

@NitroModelsAndComics 2 жыл бұрын

A before and after would have been nice.

@douglasgallardojr4759 Жыл бұрын

It would look the same

@noahpettit557 11 ай бұрын

Are the stones being cleaned on the fly by the machine or are they being replaced with fresh ballast ?

@HD1080ide 11 ай бұрын

Both. Stones that can be reused are cleaned. Stones that are too small for example are replaced with fresh ballast.

@bobsum1745 2 жыл бұрын

Men, I prefer work in my office environment. No money would make me to work near this machine.

@phil700ag5 2 жыл бұрын

Where is this?

@joohny9322 Жыл бұрын

Jbzd pozdrawiam

@MrChickenselects 2 жыл бұрын

why exactly is it being cleaned

@trailwayt9H337 2 жыл бұрын

👍GREATE MECHINARY SYSTEM👍🌹

@wyskass861 Жыл бұрын

How much to rent for a day?

@SKF358 Жыл бұрын

Hard to tell what's happening to the track.

@vaderbase 2 жыл бұрын

Wieso wird der Schotter "gereinigt"?

@davidanalyst671 3 жыл бұрын

This really fascinates me. The only thing i don't get is that I saw them fill the railroad cars with the ballast. Why don't they just get one of those shaker machines and some sieves to get the aggregate right, then put it back?

@lenchisholm6356 3 жыл бұрын

They do! What goes off in the second train is the rubbish that went through the sieve. Older cleaners just dumped it off the side of the line with a swinging conveyor arm. You can see the conveyor belts returning the good stuff to the track.

@ronblack7870 2 жыл бұрын

undersize, oily rocks get rejected.ballast must be a certain size and angular so it locks together

@pramodmehta1349 Жыл бұрын

ALL FUTURE RAIL TRACK SHOULD BE HIGH SPEED IF WE WANT TO BE SUPER POWER UP TO 2047........

@chrisperrien7055 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome machine, Nice if you owned it , rather running it,I can see, sucking up all that dust. If you owned that machine, you are sitting on a beach, not running it.