I run a Track Mobile every day at my job. It's a TM5500, the biggest TM made. These people in the video must work for the city because it looks like they are pretty hard on this TM. People like this driver should be fired, maybe McDonalds would hire him back.
How are they pretty hard on it? I can't really tell. Might of saw the flapper on the smoke tack fly open all the way once indicating a full throttle but other than that.
Hi, I'm working on my thesis and I would like to ask you based on your experience, what kind, model and brand would you recommend me for a railcar mover that will be moving 88 tons. per loaded car, each car is about 60'. Thanks in advance.
@MultiMonster69 We use ours at a nitrate/explosive plant in Wyoming. It operates kind of like a big front end loader. It's powered by a Cummins Big Cam IV 400 hp engine. The air supply is a compressor which is found in most big trucks which seems to work, but it gets pretty hot and has a fairly short life span because of it. Ours TM5500 #73,000. The one in the video looks like a TM9 maybe weighs around #40,000 to #47,000 and is powered by a four cylinder perkins diesel. New TM's are remote cntrl
@133dave133 i figured thats pretty much what they were made for like around factories and i think itd be good idea to have around ports where they off load containers on to rail cars. i think its kinda stupid for them to make em rc.
@MultiMonster69 Yeah, it seems like a person could really get into trouble with a remote. The big railroads have been using big remote controlled engines in switch yards for years. A person can still control them manually if they want. When kicking cars I think a remote would really work good, but our yard is way small to safely do it. I think Dyno paid around $578,000 dollars for ours about fouteen years ago, but it has paid for itself many many times.
one word Shuttlewagon
dicklong08 1 month ago
Just by looking at the operator, he looks like the type that breaks any and everything he touchs.
Primal67060 7 months ago
I have one question, how did that hopper end up in the middle of the RR xing?
NSX86R 2 years ago
The hopper was spotted there earlier by this crew, and they ran around it both on rails and the streets.
icecardinal 2 years ago
Oh ok.
NSX86R 2 years ago
RK ftw!
purple93shadow 3 years ago
I run a Track Mobile every day at my job. It's a TM5500, the biggest TM made. These people in the video must work for the city because it looks like they are pretty hard on this TM. People like this driver should be fired, maybe McDonalds would hire him back.
133dave133 3 years ago 6
These guys worked for CN I'm pretty sure. I did spot them later in a CN truck around the area.
icecardinal 3 years ago
@icecardinal The driver should still be fired. He abused the equipment and then got down and interfered with the jobs of the switchmen.
MrMKH2010 1 month ago
How are they pretty hard on it? I can't really tell. Might of saw the flapper on the smoke tack fly open all the way once indicating a full throttle but other than that.
chechnya 3 years ago 3
Hi, I'm working on my thesis and I would like to ask you based on your experience, what kind, model and brand would you recommend me for a railcar mover that will be moving 88 tons. per loaded car, each car is about 60'. Thanks in advance.
zdkrdh 2 years ago
@133dave133 where at are they easy to operate and what company
MultiMonster69 1 year ago
@MultiMonster69 We use ours at a nitrate/explosive plant in Wyoming. It operates kind of like a big front end loader. It's powered by a Cummins Big Cam IV 400 hp engine. The air supply is a compressor which is found in most big trucks which seems to work, but it gets pretty hot and has a fairly short life span because of it. Ours TM5500 #73,000. The one in the video looks like a TM9 maybe weighs around #40,000 to #47,000 and is powered by a four cylinder perkins diesel. New TM's are remote cntrl
133dave133 1 year ago
@133dave133 i figured thats pretty much what they were made for like around factories and i think itd be good idea to have around ports where they off load containers on to rail cars. i think its kinda stupid for them to make em rc.
MultiMonster69 1 year ago
@MultiMonster69 Yeah, it seems like a person could really get into trouble with a remote. The big railroads have been using big remote controlled engines in switch yards for years. A person can still control them manually if they want. When kicking cars I think a remote would really work good, but our yard is way small to safely do it. I think Dyno paid around $578,000 dollars for ours about fouteen years ago, but it has paid for itself many many times.
133dave133 1 year ago
@133dave133 still pretty versatile machine your lucky to operate one
MultiMonster69 1 year ago
Well there better then a Pettibone or a Shuttlewagon but not as good as a Rail King
FFhugo 4 years ago
i gots a shuttlewagob up near were i live. random to i will have to get the # but it just apreared ther overnight
Buffalotrains93 3 years ago
@Buffalotrains93 lucky send me a pic if you have any
MultiMonster69 1 year ago