Matisa automatic tamping machine for railway ties, manufactured by Materiel Industriel S. A. Lausanne, Switzerland, is being tested on LNER; machine is 4-wheel rail trolley which can travel from depot to site under its own power at speed of about 25 mph; it draws trailer consisting of shunting or parking platform; tamping mechanism is housed in pair of vertically-reciprocating tool frames operated by compressed air; 60-ft rail length of track can be tamped in 6 min.
Automatic tamping machine
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 87 , n 8
1947
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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