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Alignment Tamper Tom Daspit	Alignment Tamper Tom Daspit	Alignment Tamper Heads Tom Daspit	Alignment Tamper Rail Clamp Tom Daspit
Alignment Tamper #S2708264 Tom Daspit	Alignment Tamper #S2708264 Tom Daspit	UP Alignment Tamper Tom Daspit	UP Alignment Tamper Dia Tom Daspit
Alignment Tamper Heads #S2708264 Tom Daspit	PC Alignment Tamper #03 George Elwood	CR Farimount Alignmen tamper #ME5013 Brendan Kelly	CG Fairmont Switch Tamper #MKIV Brendan Kelly
PC Alignment Tamper George Elwood	B&O Ballast Tamper George Elwood	Plasser switch tamper Craig Palmer	SP Mow ?? #HZGX150 Tony Burzio
AMTK Alignment Trolley Tom Daspit	BNSF PJ 6700 align tamper #X5400272 Russell340	Harsco Track Tech Production & Switch Tamper Model 6700 , OgalIala NE 2006 Amaro Rocha	BNSF PJ 6700 align tamper #X5400272 Russell340
CP PJ 330C SW tamper #5204-17, Marathon, ON CAN 2004 Chris Wilson	CR Aligner Savannah NY #RA1013 Brendan Kelly	NS Alignment Tamper Bill Navari	CP Alignment Tamper #7206 D.L. Owings
PJ Alignment Tamper Vladimir J. Kedrovsky	PJ Alignment Tamper Vladimir J. Kedrovsky	CSX Switch tamper #MJ6705 Steve Brautigam	CSX alignment tamper #MTC000902 Steve Brautigam
Quebec Central Plasser Alignment tamper Michel Bernard	Quebec Central Plasser Alignment tamper Michel Bernard	CP Alignment Tamper #7206-06 D.L. Owings	NS alignment Electro Tamper #ET97, S Charlotte 2002 \| TXT Bill Blomgren
Dyna-Cat alignment tamper #09-16, Pratt KS Carl	BN PJ Switch Tamper #5600177, LaCross WI 2001 Doug Johnson	BNSF PJ 6300 Switch tamper #X5600189 Dan Grobestein	BN switch tampler #X5600137, Webster SD Doug Johnson
HTT Production/Switch Align Mark IV Tamper, W Chicago IL 2003 Kevin Kuehl	UP Switch Tamper MK-IV, Bellevue OH 2003 Kevin Kuehl	Tamper close-up , South Bonita KS 2003 Steve Barker	MBTA Jackson MKIV align tamper #11503, Shirley MA 2002 Dick Leonhardt
CP HTT 6700 align tamper #7206-21, Winola MN 2003 Doug Johnson	UP Plasser switch alignment tamper #9618 2003 Steve Hoskins	UP Fairmont alignment tamper #ATS-9804, LeSuer MN 2002 Dan Boehlk	UP Fairmont alignment tamper #ATS-9804, LeSuer MN 2002 Dan Boehlk
CR Continuous Action Alignment Tamper #MP0405, 2002 Brian Wiggins	CSX Continuous Action Alignment Tamper, Willard OH Ellis Veech	CR Continuous Action Alignment Tamper Bill Waller	CSX Continuous Action Alignment Tamper #0916 , Goose Creek SC 2003 Bob Redden
CSX Plasser Continous Action Tamper(CAT) 09-32 #MT9412, Marietta, GA 2003 Michael Martin	CSX Plasser Continous Action Tamper(CAT) 09-32 #MT9412, Marietta, GA 2003 Michael Martin	CSX Plasser Continous Action Tamper(CAT) 09-32 #MT9412, Marietta, GA 2003 Michael Martin	CSX Plasser Continous Action Tamper(CAT) 09-32 #MT9412, Marietta, GA 2003 Michael Martin
CSX Plasser & Theurer Continuous tamper (CAT) #09, Charleston SC 2003 Tony Moses	UP Plasser Super CAT 09-32 John McCullock	UP Plasser Super CAT 09-32 John McCullock	UP Plasser Super CAT 09-32 John McCullock
UP Plasser Super CAT 09-32 John McCullock	HTT Stone Thrower , pneumatically injects ballast under the tie without disturbing the pre-existing ballast Harsco Track Technologies	PAT align tamper #M2, South Hills Village Yd 1993 Joseph Testagrose	MBTA Plasser align tamper #4X4ZW, South Boston MA 2005 Jack Clifford
UP Plasser Dyna-Continuous Action Tamper 09-16 #0504, Conroe, TX 2006 Bob Smith	UP Plasser Dynamic Track Stabilizer #PTS90, Magnolia, TX 2005 Bob Smith	Canadian Alignment Tamper #70, Tillsonburg.ON 2006 Luc Eyndhoven
Alignment tampers have little "fingers" that dig into the ballast, grab the track (and ties) and shake them, to adjust the profile of the track. The Production and Switch alignment tamper has a buggy on the front. The buggy is used to line and level the track by shooting light from the boxes mounted on the buggy to the back of the machines where there is a collector, between the source and the collector is a shadow board the cuts the amount of lift (the height the track is lifted over the length of the machine) when the shadow board breaks the beam. Normally (In Australia anyway) the lining is done by another laser that sits on another buggy and is set up to line to the center of the track however this would be secured away as they are expensive and easy to wreck. As stated above the tynes (fingers) and mounted on work heads in groups of four to compact the ballast under the sleeper in the four quadrants of the rail foot. The work head and tynes and all controlled by the machine with the operator moving the machine forward and pressing the button to plunge the workhead into the ballast while the machine applies the require lift to the rail. Once the machine has made a few passes the track will have most of the voids under the rail seat compacted and will hold the line and level under use. The difference between a switch and a Production tamper, normally switch tampers don't use the buggy due to the short length of a switch. The turnouts are lifted by track jacks to the correct level or the machine makes a number of passes to lift the turnout, the work heads are require to move sideways to allow for the diverging rails and frogs and so the tamper must have this ability in order to be a true switch tamper. If the heads are fix the machine will be a production tamper for track, movable production / switch. Sorry to bore you all but someone might find it useful or interesting- Cheers- Stephen Devenish - JohnnyR@bigpond.com

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