PLASSER & THEURER
Plasser & Theurer on display at the largest fair of innovative technologies in the world of machine building railway in Austria, which is visited by more than 25,000 visitors.
PLASSER & THEURER BDS 2000
System for ballast management consisting of a ploughing section with shoulder ploughs, centre plough and 15 m³ ballast hopper with floor conveyor belt (ballast storage capacity may be expanded by adding units of the MFS series) and a ballast pickup section with two sweeper units for plain track and turnouts
PLASSER & THEURER
The ballast shoulder is profiled using shoulder ploughs which ensures that the correct angle of the embankment is produced. The shoulder ploughs draw the ballast into the upper area of the ballast bed towards the ballast crown. There the crown plough takes the ballast and distributes it in the track area according to the position of the baffle plates. Following this, a sweeper unit clears the ballast stones from the sleeper surfaces. This surplus ballast is unloaded either to the side of the track or, for greater cost-efficiency, carried on a conveyor belt to a storage hopper. Then the stored ballast is available for placement wherever there is a shortage of ballast.