Plasser 09-3X Dynamic Tamping Express

[TheKMCW]

What do tampers do

[kriegdouch]

guessing the cone represented a shunt wire, they skipped it about one tie and kept tamping. I don't know much about these machines, but i do work with a surfacing gang and i believe the cat 09 are made in germany

[ttrainmixx]

Very good !

[houghtonga]

Designed and manufactured at Plasser & Theurer in the city of Linz in Austria (sharing a shipyard repairing vessels on the Danube river), it is exported as a kit and assembled at Chesapeake. Identitical machines can be seen operating in Europe and other countries around the world.

[TrainboyRR]

That looks  like fun.

[CMRSclub]

WOW great catch!!!

[radoliz2]

Awesome! Your video is great!

[flare40x]

Very interesting. These machines are designed and built in Austria, I believe.

[justkiddin08]

Nice video!

[modemeyes]

There's Plasser factory here in the UK, just outside London, and I think they make some machines there, or did. Good video...maintainence of way tamper & a freight.  Mike.

[EnjoyFirefighting]

looks exactly the same as in Europe - well it's also Plasser & Theurer :)

[CaliforniaRailfan101]

Awesome catch!

[Jeffwecker81]

That is an awesome machine! Nice catches!!

[sgtredbluered]

Where are the tampers made? In this country?

[cchan006]

@sgtredbluered: Plasser American does have a factory in Chesapeake, Virginia, although I'm not sure if the 09-3X is manufactured or just assembled here in the U.S.

[iusetano]

Absolutely Fantastic Video.

[WoelkerVideo]

Great video.

[yurysausage]

haha union pacific owns that too what a surprise 

[Nathanrailfan]

This is the ex-SP line? I'm not familiar with lines out west.

[cchan006]

@Nathanrailfan: Yeah, Ex-SP. The climb east up famous Beaumont Hill begins around here.

[Amtrakdavis22]

I remember when they had a bunch of that MOW equipment in Davis. It's really fun to watch. So are SD9043MACs.

[mafarnz]

That is really cool to watch! Definitely a high dollar piece of machinery, but worth it for class 4 & 5 track.

[csxes44ah]

that's cool :) nice catch

[EliteHoon]

I have one of these :)

the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere

$9,200,000 AUD pricetag