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Ex.14. Answer the following questions to the text. Be careful: one question
has nothing to do with its content.
1. Do railwaymen pay constant attention to track maintenance? 2. Do they consider
all the factors? 3. What is lubrication effect in ballast caused by? 4. What do old sayings
and rules say about the importance of drainage? 5. What is the basic function of track
structure? 6. What is the result of too much moisture? 7. Why are drainage works often
neglected nowadays? 8. Is there any unit to measure drainage works? 9. Are drainage
works properly financed by most railways? 10. Do you agree that neglecting drainage is an
example of false economy? 11. What machines are used to carry out drainage works?
Additional text
Translate the text into Russian. Do it in written form. Italicized words are
railway terms. You can look them up in the dictionary provided at the end of the
present manual.
H
OW TO SOLVE DRAINAGE PROBLEMS
What can a track maintenance manager do today when he finds himself with drain-
age problems? He knows that poor drainage creates a lubricating effect in ballast. Ties ly-
ing in wet, muddy ballast deteriorate more rapidly. If not corrected, there will be trouble
with track heaving in cold weather.
Loram Maintenance of Way Inc. сan provide an answer for the track maintenance
manager. An attack on poor drainage concentrates on moving water away from the road-
bed into a properly maintained ditch.
Shoulder ballast cleaning is not a new process, but is one that is receiving increased
attention because it economically speeds the movement of water from the track section.
A self-propelled Loram shoulder ballast cleaner picks up the entire shoulder of even
the deepest ballast section, removes mud, returns clean ballast to track and regulates
cleaned ballast to specified slopes. The track maintenance manager does not need auxiliary
equipment and needs to provide only supervisory manpower. Because shoulder ballast
cleaning does not affect alignment or disturb elevation, the track can go into service im-
mediately after cleaning.
The second part of the attack on poor drainage involves a relatively new piece of
equipment – the Badger ditch cleaning machine. The self-propelled Badger has a travel
speed of 45 mph, working speed of up to 2 mph and material handling capacity of 1,000
tones per hour.
The machine can clean the ditch on either side of track without the necessity of turn-
ing the machine. Ditch width can be varied from 30in to 54in and the ditch can be located
anywhere between 6ft and 18ft from the track center and up to 4ft below the top of the rail.
The Badger is exceptionally well adapted to working in extremely wet conditions,
removing material which has a high percentage of water. It is a drainage tool designed
specially to function efficiently in the railroad environment. As a result, the Loram Badger
is much more economical than conventional ditching equipment when utilized for track
drainage work. Besides being economical, the Badger also does high quality work.
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