Road-rail excavator Atlas and Liebherr

Track-laying – Road-rail excavators/​Unloading rails

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Road-rail excavators can run on the ground or on rails, as needed. This renders them ideally suited to several different operations in track-laying. These include: excavation of soil, making the track formation, laying sleepers, putting down rails, ballasting work.

Functional Characteristics

  • Quick-change system
  • Hoist and traversing restriction
  • 4-point outrigger support for stability
  • Trailer coupling on both sides of carriage
  • Camera rear-area monitoring with colour screen in cab
  • Heavy counterweight with 2,000 mm tail swing radius
  • Computerized contract pressure and control system, CARSY
  • Permanent level regulation of rail vehicle
  • Drag shovel for demolished concrete and heavy material, ballast bucket
  • Hydraulic pile-driver for sections (up to 4 m high, 0.65 m wide), for sheet piles and rails
  • Hydraulic caulking hammer for demolition of concrete (max. 0.55 m thick)
  • AST 8 tamping unit (section velocity: max. 80 km/​h)
  • Sleeper replacement device, sleeper loading grabber
  • Hydraulically driven electromagnet, slewing rotator, bulldozer blade for moving ballast

Technical specifications – Atlas 1604

Drive Deutz BF4M 1013 E
Drive power to ISO 1585 98 kW (133 hp) at 2,300 rpm
Weight 22.000 kg
Swivel radius 1.750 mm – 2.000 mm
Max. digging depth 4.450 mm
Running permit Deutsche Bahn AG, special licence for roads

Technical specifications – Liebherr A 900 C ZW Litronic

Drive Liebherr 4-stroke diesel engine
Drive power to ISO 1585 105 kW (143 hp) at 1.000 – 2.400 U/​min
Weight 22.000 kg
Swivel radius 2.004 mm
Max. digging depth 4.000 mm
Running permit Deutsche Bahn AG

Technical specifications – Atlas 1404 ZW

Drive Deutz BF4M 2012 EC
Drive power to ISO 1585 74 kW (101 hp) at 2,100 rpm
Weight 19.000 kg
Swivel radius 2, 000 mm, build year 2014 1,700 mm
Max. digging depth 4.300 mm
Running permit Deutsche Bahn AG, special licence for roads

Technical specifications – Liebherr A 922 Rail with 4-point support

Drive Liebherr 4 cylinder in-line engine
Drive power to ISO 1585 110 kW (150 hp) at 1,800 rpm
Weight 21.600 kg
Swivel radius 2.000 mm
Max. digging depth 4.600 mm
Running permit Deutsche Bahn AG