Trailing tonnage behind a tow truck.

[jeffhergert]

Brandt R4 Power Unit from Brandt Tractor Ltd. on Vimeo

At about 2 mins 25 seconds in the video we have the answer for the train brake for the Brandt truck.

It's a 26L type valve.

Jeff

[Murphy Siding]

BaltACD

Brandt on track rail vehicles.

 

Is this moved only by rubber against rails traction?

[azrail]

I've watched a front end loader push a half dozen empty gondolas down an industrial track..no couplers!

[tree68]

We have a Gradall with a coupler and requisite brake hose.  It has been used to move cars a fair distance.  I haven't run it, so can't comment on the specifics of the brake system.

[adkrr64]

Murphy Siding

How would the brakes work in that situation?

The larger hi-rail trucks I have seen have a brake pipe hose and coupler at the back end, so I imagine they can apply and release the car brakes. I don't know if they have a locomotive style brake valve in the cab, but I imagine they can at least do an on/ off sort of application.

[BaltACD]

Brandt on track rail vehicles.

[Murphy Siding]

There’s an interesting rig on the rails near our spur today. It looks like a Kenworth dump truck with a tow truck hook on the back. That hook is connected to a sting of about a dozen Santa Fe hoppers. It looks like a MOW crew is working on the ballast. I don’t recall seeing a truck pulling cars before. How would the brakes work in that situation?