This Monster Tamping Machine? A Locomotive’s Best Friend

Name: This Monster Tamping Machine? A Locomotive’s Best Friend
Uploaded: 2022-01-05
Duration: 161988
Description: Each time a train thunders by, its momentum pushes the tracks out of alignment, endangering the trains. The solution: a powerful tamping machine to repack the ballast–the rocks that keep the track in place.

Each time a train thunders by, its momentum pushes the tracks out of alignment, endangering the trains. The solution: a powerful tamping machine to repack the ballast–the rocks that keep the track in place. (02:41)