Ballast cleaning         
Balfour Beatty RM 80-UHR ballast maintainer. The unit is moving left to right at a slow walking pace. The track is lifted and a long chainsaw like bar is extended under the track drawing the ballast to this side of the car. It is then augered up the side and onto a series of conveyer belts and discharged to the side at the front of the unit. As it moves, it replaces the ballast with clean/new (to the left of the men) and the track is laid back down.
Date: 3/20/2014 Location: Hazelton, KS Views: 36 Collection Of:   Greg Elder
Author:  Greg Elder
Ballast cleaning
Picture Categories: Action This picture is part of album:  BNSF-MOW
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