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Rail Components Catalog Track Products Ballast Undercutters/Cleaners

Rail Industry Component:
Plasser American Corporation: Ballast Undercutter/Cleaner - RM2003

Plasser American Corporation


The RM2003 is a high-performance ballast cleaning machine designed to give quality results in tough operating conditions. A high-powered cutting chain and specially designed screening unit ensure high working speeds, even in heavily fouled, encrusted ballast, the company says. It has a track lifting and slewing device that allows reduced cutting depths when required, and lateral shifting, as required to clear track side obstacles. A slewable discharge conveyor allows waste discharge to either side onto right-of-way, into MFS-type material- handling cars or into open top railway cars. A dynamic track stabilizing unit provides track stabilization, reducing possible track buckling after ballast cleaning.