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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight!Date: 04/26/24 17:32 Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: CSX2605 SBC 2402 was working the CSX CE&D sub on a windy October day in 2018. Thankfully the wind was blowing the dust away from the camera postition. My brother took the video for me as I was busy plus it was too windy to fly the drone.
From the Loram website: Shoulder ballast cleaning consists of removing ballast at the end of the ties, screening the ballast and discarding fines and fouling material and restoring the good ballast to the shoulder. Integrated scarifiers break open end of tie mud pockets, removes fines, and restores ballast voids in the shoulders and under the tie ends and release damaging trapped water. By consistently excavating at levels up to 8 inches below the tie and restoring the ballast shoulder structure, obstructing fines in the crib are able to migrate and drain freely to the shoulder with dramatically improved seepage time.A regular discipline of shoulder ballast cleaning with Loram prolongs ballast life, reducing the frequency and cost of re-ballasting. The benefits of shoulder ballast cleaning include:
 You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 04/26/24 19:51 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: WM_1109 It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. Tell your brother "thanks" for me.
/Ted Date: 04/27/24 05:10 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: jmbreitigan Very interesting video.
John Date: 04/27/24 07:03 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: texchief1 Nice video! Why were they dumping the ballast firstly and then recycling it?
texchief1 Date: 04/27/24 09:07 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: Frisco1522 Bet that contraption is ultra expensive! Amazing! Is that stuff they're dumping alongside the track the crap filtered out of the ballast?
Date: 04/27/24 11:50 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: ABB Yes, the fines ("crap"), are dumped along the R/W. If there is no room along the R/W then it is dropped into the air side-dump to be unloaded later.
Date: 04/27/24 15:55 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: railstiesballast If things work out the fines being cast aside make a good base for a right of way road or to widen fills.
But in cuts it is always a thing to dispose of in air dump cars, where it can ride to a suitable location to widen a fill. Date: 04/28/24 12:05 Re: Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner working in daylight! Author: ns1000 Nice video!!
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