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| Welcome
to the new special page devoted to unusual
railroading pictures! We decided to start this page since it seemed
like many pictures fitting to this category were offered to the
editors. If you took a picture
that you see should be published in this category, we would be happy to
publish it,
so please offer it to us! Please click the link to see the pictures below!  Number 5:
A Gigantic Crane of Volgograd...
Number 4:
Railroad Vacuum Cleaner in Sweden...
Number 3: A VW
to fight snow?...
Number 2:
Tram Pickup in Riga Latvia...
Number 1:
Minimized Robot loco in Basel Switzerland...
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| Unusual Picture 5 - A Gigantic Crane of Volgograd! | |
| Heavy
duties demand heavy solutions, this enormous 500 tons crane lifts dam
ports on the dam in Volgograd and could easily lift it's generators for
repairs or any other task needed. Intersting that the top looks like a
house, you bet that in the west there would be a restaurant on boards
the device :) Picture by Stanislav Voronin.
See Winter Visions page by Stanislav...
See High Speed Allegro page by Stanislav...
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| Unusual Picture 4 - A Railroad Vacuum Cleaner! | |
| Gerry
Putz found this truly railroad sized vacuuming unit on his trip to
Sweden. The unit was built by a Finnish engineering company Saalasti in
2004. According to manufacturer the unit is used for sucking in
the ballast for cleaning and dumping back on line after being cleaned.
The manufacturer of the vacuuming machinery itselt is Disab of Sweden.
The unit can actually perform several tasks by sucking up any material
to create a hollow for instance to add a culvert into the track bed and
replacing the ballast after the operation is done. There is also a long discussion on this machines ability to filter iron pellets from the gravel at trainorders.com. Have a look at the discussion! Picture by Gerard J. Putz.
Other MOV equipment of Sweden...
Picture Gallery of Sweden...
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| Unusual Picture 3 - A Volkswagen to fight snow, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| TA VW to Fight Snow?
Who says the snow fighting should be dull? And with the Volkswagen came probably even the radio, otherwise only found on the newest locomotives... September is the month to get the snow fighting equipment back in shape. And for 4rail.net it is time to start the half yearly snow fighting gallery :) . Picture: Ilkka Siissalo.
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| Unusual Picture 2 - Tram Picup, Riga, Latvia | |
| Tram Pickup?
We all know pickups on rubber wheels, but this is what happens with limited resources and lots of imagination! Stanislav Voronin spotted this wonderful pickup on tram rails while travelling in Riga Latvia. Pictures: Stanislav Voronin 2008.
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| Unusual Picture 1 - Robot Locomotive at Work in Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Robots on the Railroads?
This DR-10000 locomotive has eyes and ears for its surroundings while its working remotely controlled in the Basel for Cica company. While remote control is not actually excotic, you hardly find it in this size category! Below you will more pictures of this loco and soon of others as well. Pictures: Ilkka Siissalo 2002.
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