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A ballast cleaner wouldn't be enough, because you basically need to swap out the sleepers, too, so you need a complete track-relaying train. And anything involv
by iggldiggl 1y ago
A ballast cleaner wouldn't be enough, because you basically need to swap out the sleepers, too, so you need a complete track-relaying train. And anything involving switches and crossings needs to be done conventionally, because those cannot be rebuilt by simply switching out the sleepers for standard gauge ones.
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoOne such relaying train does 500m in one hour, including new sleepers. Seeing several such things in operation several times in several places, this should be doable without much modification when the gauge change is so small. Regarding switches and crossings, those come preassambled nowadays, and are just 'plugged in'.