THE VM 150 JUMBO VACUUM SCRAPER-EXCAVATOR TECHNOLOGY

A change in attitude by the modern railway in terms of ecology and cost-efficiency opens new opportunities in track maintenance for the VM 150 JUMBO vacuum scraper-excavator technology, which has recently been developed by Plasser & Theurer. This alternative method of excavation is intended to complement, and not to replace, proven track maintenance technologies such as ballast cleaning by means of ballast cleaning machines. Thanks to its universal application it offers solutions for problems which cannot be handled by conventional techniques.