Never seen one like this before

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

I was driving yesterday, on the West side of the Mississippi, and in St. Mary's, MO I found this "Herzog" thingamajig.

Never seen this type of engine before. They were replacing rails with some type of concrete-like rail system.

Saludos,

Tulio

NOTICE: I tried to find the old thread where we had some diesel engines / trains and post this image there, but could not find it.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11280

Maybe something like this?

http://www.wimp.com/traintrack/

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

Thank you, Brandon.

I did not witness anything like it, but it makes perfect sense. There were some components made of what looked like concrete, alongside the existing railway. I did not get close enough, so that they would not claim I was trespassing. Neat system on that video above.

Saludos,

Tulio

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11280

The engineer in me always finds these things interesting!

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

I have watched the video you linked, a few times, an yes, it is fascinating.

Saludos,

Tulio

jbell · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:57 pm

Hi Tulio,
They're replacing the wooden ties with concrete ones for the new high speed rail system. Kansas City to St. Louis to Chicago. They did this in Granite City last year. We even got a new overpass out of the deal.Neat piece of machinery. I watched them do it........John

davidbray · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:43 pm

jbell wrote:

Hi Tulio,
They're replacing the wooden ties with concrete ones for the new high speed rail system. Kansas City to St. Louis to Chicago. They did this in Granite City last year. We even got a new overpass out of the deal.Neat piece of machinery. I watched them do it........John

When's that going to be finished, and which railway are they using?

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

jbell wrote:

Hi Tulio,
They're replacing the wooden ties with concrete ones for the new high speed rail system. Kansas City to St. Louis to Chicago. They did this in Granite City last year. We even got a new overpass out of the deal.Neat piece of machinery. I watched them do it........John

Hi, John!

How are you?

I shot that image South of St. Genevieve, MO.

The modifications for high speed rail are, AFAIK, between KCK / KCMO and Chicago, IL. This portion of railroad is way out of the high speed route, but I would guess that it also makes sense to replace wood ties with concrete ones, right? No matter the location.

Take care, bud!

Tulio

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:21 pm

Seattle area's SOUND TRANSIT is using cement sleepers for the light rail system in and around the Seattle area, yet another expensive debacle that is costing a Gajillion dollars, will be lightly used, go no where, cost to much to ride-sort of like our area SOUNDER commuter trains that (and both are the anti versions of L.A. and S.F. commuter rail systems), are frequently stopped by land slides on part of the expensively rented BNSF rails and are thinnly ridden but each and every seat on each and every train is subsidized to the tune of around $8 per seat per trip. I'm glad I moved out of the taxing area to support that 'never-never' system.

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