Trackmobile in action

I was on an unplanned trip in Neenah, WI and happened to get lucky and catch how a Trackmobile works. What a neat piece of equipment. Sorry...no audio!

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• CN
• Trackmobile
• MOW

[NSX86R]

I have one question, how did that hopper end up in the middle of the RR xing?

[icecardinal]

The hopper was spotted there earlier by this crew, and they ran around it both on rails and the streets.

[133dave133]

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.

[icecardinal]

These guys worked for CN I'm pretty sure. I did spot them later in a CN truck around the area.

[chechnya]

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.

[dicklong08]

one word Shuttlewagon

[MrMKH2010]

@icecardinal The driver should still be fired. He abused the equipment and then got down and interfered with the jobs of the switchmen.

[Primal67060]

Just by looking at the operator, he looks like the type that breaks any and everything he touchs.

[MultiMonster69]

@133dave133 still pretty versatile machine your lucky to operate one

[133dave133]

@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.

[MultiMonster69]

@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.

[133dave133]

@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

[MultiMonster69]

@Buffalotrains93 lucky send me a pic if you have any

[MultiMonster69]

@133dave133 where at are they easy to operate and what company

[zdkrdh]

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.