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Brian- <br /> <br />This machine is used for a variety of MOW tasks. It carries a long arm articulated backhoe. The cars have no end bulkheads and a common floorplate, hence the truck placement. Essentially it is one vey long open trough inside. This allows the backhoe to move and load or unload from anyplace along its length. Uses are drainage ditch clearing and removing of any type of trackside junk. In the other direction they are used to unload new riprap, ties or drainage pipes. Their interior length allows removal of old sections of rail and delivery of longer sections of pipe. The backhoe carries a number of boom attatchments for all of these materials. <br /> <br />There is also a self-propelled version that requires no locomotive (and of course no engineer). <br /> <br />Below (I hope) is a link to the company: <br /> <br />http://www.georgetownrail.com/home.htm <br /> <br />Mark
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