Railroad bucket wheel digger and ballast spreader - GIF

[Altair]

Railroad bucket wheel digger and ballast spreader.




Previously:

Ballast hopper railcar - GIF
Two-man push-pull railroad ballast shoveling technique - GIF
Railroad track laying machine - GIF
Railroad track construction machine - GIF
Railroad multi-maintenance heavy equipment - GIF, video, photos

[hemmjo]

That looks like the correct machine to use for digging ditches, then filling them back in..

[Ralphxyz]

Strange they are digging up the ballast and laying it back down in the same spot. Possible they are processing the ballast to make it smaller.