None of the men were Chinese. Go figure...

That's pretty damn slick.

too cool.

How the hell do you think up a machine like this?

YES. I was wondering when I would see something like this here The second train is a ballast cleaner for getting the muck out of the ballast (all the rock under the track) and the third is a tamper for settling the ballast. Without these steps the ties could shift around with the weight of trains passing over them (bad).

More stuff like this for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaV5joF9RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-yKtqu5NX0

Yes I am a train geek at times.

^You know what happens to Train geeks, don't you?

Here we come,
You better watch out,
Or you'll scream and shout.

Graffiti is weird. (2:37)

Needs more Raymond Scott.

Amazing machines. I felt like it need a "How it's made" narration, however. Also, lots of train *wheels in this video.

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There go more of those damn poor people creating jobs for the rich people!

Designing and testing such huge and unique toys is an engineering dream job.

*wheels *howto

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such amazing automation machines and yet they had to have 2 guys manually drop in washers and pins

These P&T tamping machines (4:04 onwards) are fierce. They mostly use the P&T Unimat 09-16/4S over here and you can feel the ground shaking for several hundreds of meters.

Two years ago, they had a train around that renewed two tracks simultaneously, both rails and railway sleepers. Huge fucking thing. Attracted quite a crowd, too, even though they only used it at night to minimize downtime.

Trains? Who uses trains anymore.

I've had since my Jetpack stopped working >> ^Sniper007:

Trains? Who uses trains anymore.

I wish this video came with annotations...

Discovery did an episode centered around these trains if anyone feels like looking. I remember watching it about 2 years ago.

This is the requirement for high speed rails. The tolerance is very small @ high speeds, so a hammer and a driving screw won't cut it. High speed rails are very effective and pleasant over short distances. California and the North East corridor are both investing in HSR.

>> ^Sniper007:

Trains? Who uses trains anymore.

yo dawg i heard u like trains

Amazing... simply amazing...

So what's the length they can fully do a renewal/renovate in a single day?

Yo dawg, I heard you like trainz, so we put a train on your train so you can ride while you ride.

I put a penny on the track and they had to do the whole thing over again (sorry)

Damn Man kind is a clever species.

Get the engineers that designed this on to designing a machine to go ahead and build us a moon base.

When John Henry was a little baby...
Sittin' on his father's knee...

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I was excited to have made it into the top 15 new videos.
For the greater good of VideoSift I did an IsDupe on my own post

I wonder if I can *promote this?

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*promote *quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

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In the words of Kim Peek you're a gentleman and a scholar.

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Brilliant! *promote

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