http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bPlBqw-MM&NR=1
LOL! What is this?
Cool little machine
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IANOZ
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Re: Cool little machine
No Idea 
.We have little suzuki four wheel drives here in australia that have sets of steel railway wheels that drop down with hydraulic rams and the road wheels drive it along the tracks. These are for the track inspectors to check the lines and then drive home . But as the suzukis got bigger with each new model ,they got too wde for the wheels to sit on the tracks .So now they have toyota landcruser four wheel drive traybacks with duel wheels on the back so the inner wheels will drive on the tracks when they put the railway wheels down. ian.
.We have little suzuki four wheel drives here in australia that have sets of steel railway wheels that drop down with hydraulic rams and the road wheels drive it along the tracks. These are for the track inspectors to check the lines and then drive home . But as the suzukis got bigger with each new model ,they got too wde for the wheels to sit on the tracks .So now they have toyota landcruser four wheel drive traybacks with duel wheels on the back so the inner wheels will drive on the tracks when they put the railway wheels down. ian.-
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Re: Cool little machine
What a bizarre machine. It appears to have no purpose other than having dual road/rail capability. Presumably there must be a real purpose for it, maybe Martyn (W) can shed some light on it.
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Re: Cool little machine
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The text comments below it on Youtube mention what it is - a 'switcher' or shunter as we would say in the UK, and as one guy says "This is what one calls a track mobile. What it does is not a trick. That is how it was designed to work by the Whiting Company. These things are not for switching massive yards but are better suited for industrial? switching where the owner company has no "real locomotives." They are a bi-modal machine as you guys just witnessed."
Dave. S.
The text comments below it on Youtube mention what it is - a 'switcher' or shunter as we would say in the UK, and as one guy says "This is what one calls a track mobile. What it does is not a trick. That is how it was designed to work by the Whiting Company. These things are not for switching massive yards but are better suited for industrial? switching where the owner company has no "real locomotives." They are a bi-modal machine as you guys just witnessed."
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