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Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 17:48
by John Ashworth
Permanent way train in Dagoretti Station. I watched this machine jack itself up and turn 180 degrees.
Photos by John Ashworth 1996
Re: Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 18:29
by Kevin Wilson-Smith
A tamper? What does the unit do?
Re: Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 18:37
by John Ashworth
I didn't see it do anything except turn itself around!
Re: Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 18 Mar 2008, 19:01
by Kevin Wilson-Smith
Perhaps a cunning Kenyan invention? Based on the principle that what advances must retreat?
Re: Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 01 May 2010, 21:51
by John Ashworth
And could this be the very same tamper that I photographed 14 years ago? I photographed it in Nairobi marshalling yard today (01 May 2010) whilst riding on steam locomotive 3020.
Re: Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 25 May 2010, 06:17
by Andreas Umnus
Do you have also some pictures of this loco when it is turn around?
Re: Kenya - permanent way train
Posted: 25 May 2010, 08:26
by John Ashworth
Sorry, no. I watched it turning itself around but I can't remember now why I didn't take any pictures of it doing so.