(HD) Hi Tech Anti- Coal Dust Fleet meets a BNSF Coal Train in Wyoming

[irelandbloke]

Cool vid

[79supergasdriver]

That coal dust is also harmful to the environment, animals and people...although exposure doesn't look to be a problem along this peice of track

[AMBarthel90]

The first machine is a Loram Shoulder Ballast Cleaner. It cleans the ballast along the shoulder of the track. The second machine is a Plasser American 09-3X tamper and track stabilizer. There should be a third machine with this group, which profiles the ballast and sweeps up any excess. These three machines make up what BNSF calls a "Super Surface" gang.

[1994kaushal]

which cam did u use to capture this vid :D

[railjames]

@1994kaushal Sony HDX 100

[55098]

wow those have to be the best kept up rail lines ive seen

[adyar78]

@55098, I agree, the tracks look beautiful. And the video frame composition is good.

[buttercupthesweetnes]

How does it remove dust? Vacuum it up?

[TrainDr101]

@buttercupthesweetnes: it looks like the 1st machine is a ballast undercutter. They lift the track so that so that a sweeper can pick all the ballast. It then sifts the ballast, throwing the coal dust out to the side & returns the ballast to under neath the track. the tamper works the track back into the ballast for a smooth piece of railroad.

[anderberger]

way cool