German tie replacement train.

[Chris333]

Was sent this video:

/>pretty cool.

[up1950s]

Monster magic .

[tom mann]

missed the sprayers and matte medium. ;D

[Chris333]

And the guy on the rail bike with the soldering iron.

[DKS]

I like the train on top of the train at the beginning. Very meta.

[asciibaron]

if you have the Pentrex "Working on the Railroad" video this might look familiar.  BNSF use this equipment and the tie carts that zip along the tops are well detailed.  it if you don't have that video, i suggest you get it

[Philip H]

So they automated tie replacement and ballast profiling, but they have guys sitting on powered stools to seat the insulators and clips?  Man, there goes my opinion of German ingenuity!

David, we now expect the train on a train in T-gauge by the end of next week . . . .

[tom mann]

So they automated tie replacement and ballast profiling, but they have guys sitting on powered stools to seat the insulators and clips?  Man, there goes my opinion of German ingenuity!

That was what I thought too.  It seems like it could be automated just as easily as everything else in the video.  In fact, it was almost comical and dangerous at the same time.

Maybe those jobs are somehow protected by a union?

[asciibaron]

Maybe those jobs are somehow protected by a union?

this is the last chance for someone to point out a problem with the tie, the clip, or the pad.  if any of them are defective, the person can stop things.  the ties are spaced by eye by the controller - they are not a set distance

[wm3798]

Transformers... More than meets the eye!