Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome


Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome

Sometimes the place you are working makes for strange bedfellows. In this case we see a railroad crew trying to free a decent sized excavator that is hopelessly buried in the mud beside a track. We’re not sure what the operator was doing down there but when the mud covered the tracks and kept getting deeper we’re pretty sure he must have muttered some pretty ugly words when on the radio for help. This looks like a remote area and we’re going to guess that there was no good way to get another piece of equipment in there to help so they drafted in the one vehicle that that knew could get things done, a diesel electric locomotive.

There is nothing dramatic about this extraction which may actually make it cooler and it will certainly make you respect the incalculable levels of pulling grunt that a locomotive has because it removes this otherwise buried machine like it is a child’s toy in a puddle. We cannot tell if there is a steel cable or a chain hooking the excavator and the locomotive together but either way we’re hoping that there is not one sitting in the machine. Why? It seems to us that the locomotive could pretty much snap whatever it wanted to like a piece of twine and a flying steel cable or big chain with that much energy can do some real damage. Everything goes OK and you’ll be impressed with the quiet strength of the locomotive. It is one thing to see them pull loaded rail cars along but this is an oddly cool real world demonstration of their power.

 

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS BIG LOCOMOTIVE EFFORTLESSLY YANK A STUCK EXCAVATOR OUT OF THE MIRE –


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One thought on “Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome

  1. Loren

    What one locomotive can do, two can do better. Wild guess, 100 tons of tractive force there? And a spotter to check the rails weren’t being pulled off the ties. I bet those guys all had a beer at the end of that day.

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