Hyrail vehicles - Something interesting I've been working on

[200bhp]

As it's in keeping with both the Train topic and general PistonHead appeal, I thought I'd share what I've been working on recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkFOfiianA

Until I came to Australia last year, I'd never heard of "Hyrail" but its really popular over here with many hundreds of km of rail line being a long way from the nearest road.

In England, if you wanted to get a truck to site near a railway line, you just drive along the road and maybe across a field at the very end.

We do all sorts of interesting things from Toyota Landcruisers to even bigger trucks than this one.

Its very interesting stuff from an engineering point of view and it seem that at last I've managed to find a use for the "skills" my dad thrust upon me while train-spotting with him as a child!!

[anonymous-user]

Road-Rail Vehicles have been in use on the UK network for something like 30 years now.
They're even on parts of the Underground.

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As C-Kid says, there is a huge fleet of road railers that have been in use for decades.

[200bhp]

Its a bit of a change for me having worked on electrical products previously - Clearly I was not a keen enough train spotter to have missed them all back home!

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200bhp said:

Its a bit of a change for me having worked on electrical products previously - Clearly I was not a keen enough train spotter to have missed them all back home!

My train journey to/from work passes a huge depot of the things!

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200bhp said:

Its a bit of a change for me having worked on electrical products previously - Clearly I was not a keen enough train spotter to have missed them all back home!

But they're not a train. If you were spotting trains it's no surprise you missed them.

[W124Bob]

Hy-rail vehicles have been around in the US even longer, the station wagon of the classic Checker was regularly used .Here is a Pontiac
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[wuckfitracing]

Yep Ive worked on Ultrasonic test hi rail landrovers. Testing Southern Ireland fascinating work.