Worlds largest track layer in 2011 - Plasser & Theurer SVM1000 Infranord at Haparandabanan, Sweden

In Kalix, Sweden they have build a new railroad between Kalix and Haparanda (Haparandabanan) 42km new railway
I was with a friend there last week in september 2011 and filmed the machine that lay down the track. A SVM 1000 from Plasser & Theurer.
There is two machine of this model in the world and this is the only one in Europe!
And at least in 2011 it was worlds largest track layer ;)
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Modärna Rallare
Världens största spårläggare lägger spåret för den nya delen av nya Haparandabanan mellan Kalix och Haparanda en sträcka på 42km
Rälsläggaren är en Plasser & Theurer SVM1000 ägs av Infranord och fins endast 2st sådana i världen den andra är i Austraulien.
Samma maskin lade 2014 spåret till Hallandsås tunneln
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Track Laying Machines Gleisneubau Maschinen

[@TrainCrazy.]

Very cool stuff there...was hoping to see the joints get welded together

[@fergusmoffat1760]

You won't. All they need for this track-laying machine is to get the rail-ends together and secured by the Pandrol clips so the sleeper wagons can run onto the next section of CWR. After the tracklaying is complete, they pull the rail ends together with hydraulic power to a pre-determined tension then thermit-weld the butt-joint.

[@NenadKralj]

@@fergusmoffat1760 WELL SAID - the best part is "thermit-weld the butt-joint" w/ asterisk on (: thermit :)

[@mrz80]

@@NenadKralj Fe2O3 + 2 Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3 means never having to say you're sorry :D

[@bm1113]

@@mrz80 Thanks guys its like Fergus sad and here are a clip on the termite welding but Not mine clip kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6bbpHmdod9ln8k

[@malothmuralifjksewp3093]

@@fergusmoffat1760 P

[@boywonder6659]

This machine travels faster than the the actual trains in the UK.

[@fflaguna]

It's wednesday night, time to watch some industrial machinery do a thing

[@Unknown-lv3bj]

It's Wednesday, my dudes. OOOOOHHHH

[@user-mf1wb6ix6v]

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[@Hoshikani]

it’s wednesday night, really

[@LifesLaboratory]

Apparently Friday nights are when I do said thing. :(

[@brentsarazin7448]

Wow..I am an Engineer and this is a Marvel of man made ingenuity. In my area of Canada I have never seen railway tracks that weren't made of wood ties. I can only imagine the hours and labor this machine replaces with conventional means..Great Video..:)

[@bm1113]

Thanks Glad that this old video can still be appreciated :)

[@justincronkright5025]

The labour is exactly what I figured would be hardest to achieve. Am wondering if the Earth-works (movement mostly) would now be the most labour-intensive aspect of the process.

[@aserta]

Funny thing is, we could make a machine that does all the job by itself. The road cutting, the road grading the tracks and cleanup. All automated, you just have to feed it components. And as a matter of fact... we do, just not on the surface, and it's called a TBM. Those machines do it all (some, not all). They cut the road, they install tunnel walls, they clean up and lay track that they ride on.

[@joecombs7468]

I can remember seeing men lay track by hand when I was a little kid. It was interesting to watch them & listen to them sing while they worked.

[@Bratfalken]

To keep the guys with the sledgehammers in sync with the guys with the "nails" then I understand!?

[@joecombs7468]

@@Bratfalken they sang driving the spikes & moving the rails. The singing set the timing of their movements. Like sailors used to do on sailing ships.

[@crazyhorsetrading8655]

Wow that is such a cool machine, sure makes track laying a breeze, just surprised the rails aren't bolted together. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@henerymag]

A gap is left because of expansion during hot weather, which could lead rails to bend causing an accident.

[@Anthony_in_Bloomington_Indiana]

Wow, this is so much easier and faster than the track laying team I saw in Blazing Saddles! "Excuse me while I whip this out."

[@radharcanna]

Fantastic. Human ingenuity knows no bounds. Imagine the blood, sweat and tears involved in doing this in the past.

[@bm1113]

And life, back then there was a number of how many people died on each construction site, whereas now it's very rare and there's a lawsuit if someone dies

[@xreconusmc3156]

That machine is incredible. Wow 😯 I was very interested and pleased to watch. Times have changed

[@josephgilliand4]

Even with all this computer controlled giant hydraulic machinery, it still comes down to a bunch of guys whacking things with sledge hammers! LOL

[@vienna11215]

Yea, but now it's only 2 guys with a sledgehammer. As opposed to 20,000 guys with sledgehammers, pickaxes, shovels, and horses!

[@eugenkramaric1173]

@@vienna11215 Exactly ☺

[@Nemesis_T_Type]

That's why kids these days should choose skilled labor courses in college or technical school because it will take several more decades before these types of job become automated unlike white collar jobs that are now being replaced because of Artificial Intelligence.

[@rickcoona]

@@vienna11215 the way things are going, it will be again...

[@michaelprosperity3420]

@@Nemesis_T_Type What. And not go into debt for 120k after 4 years of gender studies only to come out and be a barista at Starbucks. Eventually the folks who actually work and don't sit behind a desk are going to leave the do nothing's behind.

[@alannewman85]

That's a brilliant idea! Imagine the manual handling injuries avoided by this!

[@dangeary2134]

This doesn’t work so good on short sidings. The machine is longer than the siding!

[@Lillstisse661]

​@@dangeary2134well in sidings they often use wooden ties and smaller machines the size of wheelbogies.

[@joyceb8407]

A beautiful piece of machinery...I love it!

[@eclair9]

This is beyond fasinating!!! What a phenomenal piece of machinery!!!!!

[@thekrunkymonkey]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing.

[@teresawood4095]

You guys did a great Job Putting the tracks together and it was a Awesome video too.

[@greyhairedphantom4038]

Just another nail in the coffin of the working man!

[@Timberella3003]

Mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing.

[@CIRCLETUBE]

Great Video.

[@paullanyi516]

Very well done, especially the close-ups bringing the rail together. Thanks ! Mycket bra gjort, särskilt närbilder föra skenorna samman. Tack!

[@bobv8219]

I knew a good ol guy that did railway installation the hard way . He used to say that 2 guys would double time slamming in rail spike's and that there was a certain technique to shoveling the rocks . His name was Steven Owens he was a hell of a good man. He died of alcohol consumption about 2 years ago. I spent many good times with him before he passed. RIP STEVE your missed immensely. Your friend Leonard.

[@androidemulator6952]

Incredibly satisfying to watch.. :)

[@larcoal2963]

Incredible bit of engineering there.

[@higherwrldsprodction2955]

wow, this is amazing. thats some incredible machinery

[@joncervini8415]

It is designed and built in Austria.

[@verfeb12]

Amazing machine! Thanks for sharing!

[@mikebecket7458]

Now that is incredible....and awesome!

[@carmichaeltrainproductionc9663]

It’s not very often that you see a Railroad being built, with concrete ties, and machinery doing all the work, hard to believe over 100 years ago when it was a man with Big hammers hammering The rails onto the wooden ties, this video is very educational and I believe a lot of kids can learn something from this, keep posting videos like these as a train photographer, it’s hard to find anything like this happening..

[@bm1113]

Thanks for the kind words :) Yes it was an Unusually , construction work for me too, so it is nice to have it documented :) For me are road works and diggers more common for me ;) about the concrete ties I think that all the new or renovated tracks in Sweden have concrete ties But there is certainly a better insight that can answer that.

[@theanomalous1401]

@@bm1113: Thank you for making a very educational as well as entertaining video that shows the advances in automation in our culture.

[@aegystierone8505]

Incredible machine from Austria.

[@geekverve]

Fascinating. Great to see the railroad industry still alive and well in Sweden. Thanks for posting.

[@Baerchenization]

Austria is not Sweden.

[@geekverve]

@@Baerchenization Who said anything about Austria? The video title and description said this was in Sweden.

[@Baerchenization]

@@geekverve Because the railroad industry in not alive and well in Sweden, but in Austria. They build tracks everywhere in the world, not only in Sweden - the industry in question is that of the MACHINE.

[@geekverve]

@@Baerchenization They're laying track in Sweden. Presumably that means there is railroad industry in Sweden.

[@Baerchenization]

@@geekverve Look. They are laying tracks in EVERY country, that is the most normal thing, as infrastructure gets gradually developed everywhere. So saying that a 1st world nation in Europe is having an alive and well railroad industry does not make sense in any other context, unless you somehow expected Sweden for some weird reason to NOT maintain/extend their network, for which there is absolutely no reason, unless you are out of touch...

[@geosutube]

Saw one of these in action on vacation in SW Minnesota back in 1988. Had to stop by the side of the road just to see it run! Only, the one I watched would lift the rail, pull out the spikes, discard the old tie, insert a new tie, tamp the gravel, then spike the new tie to the rail. And on and on. Hypnotic.

[@kimerful]

Tack för videon! kul att se att infranord har det bästa utav det bästa. Även intressant och ytterst lärorikt för mig som blivande projektör.

[@ligrit4817]

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[@kofola9145]

I like this. The biggest, badass, most technologycal advanced machine and a man with a hammer.

[@Djur2844]

kof ola ... It´s Tor (the Scandinavian name for Thor) with his earthly hammer !!!

[@jbrynolfsson]

Tor or Jeremy Clarkson

[@davidsolomon8203]

Who can watch these wonders, and remain unmoved!!!?

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

Truly remarkable ! I’m going to have to show the kids !!

[@1961casey]

I am very impressed with your video. It is self explanatory and covered the important details of the process. Very informative.

[@bm1113]

Thanks it pleases me to hear when I'm trying to get my films as informative as possible and not just only a one minute with disjointed clips

[@1961casey]

Did you edit this or was it raw footage?

[@bm1113]

1961casey its are some editing the Slipers are was recorded a few weeks earlier and some stops is shortened :)

[@dustyguy]

Very interesting video thanks for posting

[@ganeshindupu42]

Very very good to indianrailways

[@johnmorrison3555]

Amazing machine. Certainly simplifies track laying.

[@hobbyhermit66]

Great video. I truly appreciate the lack of commercials.

[@testdriver3146]

Swedes are not much in favor of being interrupted while doing their IKEA, sex and watching TV.

[@RickJando]

There are a lot of very clever people in the world, and this video is amazing ! I didn't see any track welding going on though ? Very good 👍 and informative video, thank you.

[@bumblebob5979]

I don't think it's too clever putting alot of criminals and drug abusers out of bussiness. But I could be wrong, but not likely wrong..

[@roberthunt1540]

Quarantine - "Hey hon, you watching a movie?" "Nope. Something even better."

[@michaelodwyer4442]

A great way to lay down sleepers and tracks, a very interesting and technological change in the way that tracks are layed and so efficiently done. L

[@andreschachel5863]

I think today we have not only one machine for Europe. In Germany alone we have a lot of track works for the moment. But it's amazing to see the size and power.

[@bm1113]

I believe you are right

[@So1othurn]

A train on top of a train? What sorcery is this!

[@newstart49]

+So1othurn Only the well trained are allowed to train a trainee to operate a train on a train.

[@drServitis]

+newstart49 You are a cunning linguist! And not to be confused with a cunnilingus!

[@umeshpun3721]

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[@umeshpun3721]

So1othurn kickboxing Ah

[@umeshpun3721]

Atheist Avenger boxing 6mth

[@Davifonseca89]

O sucesso da construção de ferrovias na idade contemporânea... quando veremos aqui? Máquinas no trabalho o sucesso da tecnológica e da ciência mecânica.

[@luked4911]

Excellent film documentation, clarity and sound. Gives a person a sense of being there with all the sights and sounds. I have seen similar pieces of machinery but this one is top notch. Such engineering!! Magnificent! Thank you!!!

[@bm1113]

Thanks :) incredible it's 6 years since this video :)

[@Innomen]

that sound is relaxing, like a building's heartbeat

[@eugenkramaric1173]

☺

[@timothyshoemaker9555]

Thank you for sharing. I live near the railway for the port of Charleston. Watching some of the Maintenance taking place is amazing.

[@mviv6339]

Maintenance is a thankless job. 23 year experience.

[@michaelmixon1099]

Technology fascinates me!

[@jacksutton1641]

Big ships engines

[@eliaslundgren1]

This is pretty dang amazing...

[@davesmallwood4896]

what a clever machine,also the person who sat down and designed it. thank you for the video.

[@bm1113]

Thanks

[@chrisprice5108]

Well it was originally designed and built in New Zealand in the 70s At Easttown workshops The national equiptment manger at the time was Dave Mitchell who went on to work for Plasser Australia I think We towed ours with a D7 Bulldozer, and I operated the gantry for 10 years we could lay 700 sleepers an hour with good bed

[@robertjackson4121]

1946 my dad built railroad bridges cutting logs 12' x 100' driving his own piling.

[@jamieturnage4574]

thats one amazing machine

[@myredute]

No matter how good mankind makes the machine,it still needs human input to complete the task. Brilliant video non the same!

[@Yunorko271]

That’s one heck of a beast!

[@noworriesmate8287]

We can rebuild it! Make it stronger, faster! We have the Technology!

[@jesseeski]

The big rig of the week!

[@ibizenco]

One word: fantastic.

[@exileinderby51]

Great video of a great piece of kit. For all its high tech wizardry, it still needs a bloke with a hammer!

[@bluebellybrown2361]

yes there always be a bloke with a hammer

[@hostile177]

bluebelly Brown Still dangerous work ducking under and in-between giant machines though eh?

[@soulextracter]

hostile177 Looks like we have two brits and a canadian here ^^

[@petec9686]

exileinderby51 that is exactly what I was thinking. i doubt the bloke with a BFH will ever be completely replaced. This piece of gear does put hundreds of hammer wielding blokes on the unemployement line though.

[@archiballarchi3922]

ther'yll always be spoons(":

[@bm1113]

Steven Michael But it just came out of a curve you see the curve on the horizon in the picture;) they laid out 26 miles new track with this layer

[@freequest]

+bm1113 is that a day or per load of sleepers?

[@bm1113]

+freequest it was the specific job this time but of course this track layer has been on more jobs :)

[@freequest]

bm1113 Still a impressive piece of machinery heck I didn't even know stuff like that existed. O BTW thanks for the awesome video (:

[@firefox5926]

ever seen the Saturn v transporter crawler ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYmQZYRmqspjZ5Im43s make this look like a toy lol :)

[@pearlyhumbucker9065]

Nice. Now lets lay sleepers with this thing. Oh, it cant do this? Worthless shit so far then....

[@RodneyWiedemer]

This kind of thing seems like it would be one of the coolest jobs in the world! :)

[@tracylemme1375]

I saw a similar machine laying track on UP in Cochise County AZ. It amazed me. It was pulled by Cat tracked loader.

[@AvoDJ]

top stuff, great video thanks

[@bm1113]

Thanks :)

[@jimb9369]

Great Vid. I wish it showed the rail connection method and the ballast finishing. Great anyway. Thank you!

[@kevinfauconniere9646]

Yes I thought the same thing! Still a cool video though

[@esk8spirit362]

Wow, didn't know such machine exists... Very nice...

[@bassambouhamad7935]

My goodness what beautiful technology.

[@BigEsGarage]

Wow! I wish they'd do this in Vermont!

[@philbessette391]

do whenever still have train service here? (in Vermont)

[@jpsholland]

Rare footage, well done.

[@tortinwall]

jpsholland not rare enough.

[@lynnamicon6195]

Great work!!!!

[@appliancerepairshorts]

great video, thanks

[@jothaxy2468]

incredible machine. I see this for sleeping

[@anunggaming]

wow, great video!

[@tractorsmachinesro1405]

Great rail therapy...I like IT!!!!

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Brute strength and extreme precision...nice.

[@edwinleyba7510]

Nice video, how many miles can you do in a day work. They were moving right along a crew that knows how to work together just awesome.

[@budspencerjr2574]

Great...i am retired but i still can feel the adrenaline... Hans Plasser, RIP

[@uniblab2006]

That's incredible!

[@ahmedassistance7113]

all best wishes for Sweden Nice Country and People

[@thiesenf]

2011: Nope 2012: Not yet 2013: Nah 2014: Ain't gonna happen 2015: Why? 2016: Wait a few more years 2017: Not this year either 2018: We're KZbin 2019: Damn we're close 2020: Isn't the KZbin algorithm awesome?

[@bm1113]

This was actually quite fun :) Especially since I upload KZbin videos just because it's fun, I have no goal :) that's why you avoid advertising on my videos :) and it took one year to answer :)

[@thiesenf]

@@bm1113 I know the feeling... it's just for the fun of it... :-) Now let's see if you're gonna answer this reply in 2022... :-) Men du... jag tänktre inte ens på att videon har ju svensk text... hehehehehe

[@bm1113]

@@thiesenf LOL almost 1H now and The feeling of being able to take it easy with filming for a year like these while others panicking is quite nice ;) HeHe Ja så kan det gå Från början var nog allt på Svenska i denna video men ju mer man har lärt sig på dessa 10 år så har man ändrat på texten i varje fall :) och har ju hänt lite sen dess :) under de första två åren hade Filmen 17 tusen visningar ;) sen 117 ett år senare och sen vid 2015 börja det hända grejer :D

[@bird271828]

This is a good distraction from the coronavirus.

[@polarlab113]

Are you distracted? By carona virus seriously?or maybe just preoccupied if you need a distraction.I need a distraction from the fascists who created it.

[@ba-tobartc.6230]

i am from the future 2 yrs.. we still have corona 😔

[@MJSGamin]

Well this is freaking cool.

[@TheLocutus70]

Blows my mind that they had to lay those by hand years ago, now they use machines. Progress.

[@musicuniverse1356]

Think about those guys that laid the tracks across the US and through the Sierra Nevada, that’s some crazy, labor intensive work.

[@TheLocutus70]

It's crazy.

[@austrorus]

one of Austria's best export...

[@shalala4571]

I get proud of sweden when i see this kind of stuff. This country has come so far without having any oil or big amounts of gases. We arent the biggest manifacturer, but what get made has quality,

[@egalf]

+TheMatrixBot Enough big corporations and iron ore.

[@ph11p3540]

+TheMatrixBot Something to be really proud of. You have no idea how big oil can put pressure on you when you are trying to break away from their grip. It's really punishing and it makes green technologies unaffordable.

[@shalala4571]

+Phillip Mulligan yeah I can understand that. I just wish the world could agree at saving the world instead of being greedy as fuck :/

[@ph11p3540]

+TheMatrixBot The design of a large pavement slab machine has nothing to do with greed anymore than the track layer. The I do see that this track layer has less moving parts for the workers to be caught on than a concrete slab machine. The nice thing is the slab machine technology is quickly advancing as far as ease of operation and safety is concerned. Don't be surprised if the next few years if such a machine has been improved and shown on KZbin. As for Sweden. They are trail blazers in production technologies for speed, efficiency and most important safety. Your country has my admiration, respect, envy and I say that as a Canadian.

[@shalala4571]

+Phillip Mulligan I'd love to go to Canada. is it nice? :)

[@robertbooth6144]

That was so 😎 that was the first time ever seeing that done. Thank you great job.

[@bm1113]

Thanks Glad this almost 10 year old is still interesting :)

[@LynnCDoyle-ek2oh]

I want the job driving the spider moving the cross ties to the laying machine.

[@Chaosfury50]

Careful what you wish for. He also has to drive the main train over the terrain whilst putting the strain on tha brain where the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

[@lambo8961]

@@Chaosfury50 that was fire my guy

[@makuszko]

Everyone wants. Dream job :)

[@NeoRipshaft]

8:11 Buffering..... Loaded.

[@user-wl5vg1bd6o]

Весь процесс, от самого начала и до конца показан! Спасибо этому человеку!

[@jw4620]

Amazing!

[@DACUL1983]

Amaizing! Hello from Romania! 1 like!

[@kevinolesik1500]

i was waiting to see them weld the two rails together ... it never happened ...

[@bm1113]

+Kevin Olesik it was a separate team who weld the rail ends with thermite later

[@protoborg]

+bm1113 Thermite is used to CUT the rails, not weld them.

[@bm1113]

+protoborg kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6bbpHmdod9ln8k

[@protoborg]

bm1113 That is NOT welding. It is merely melting the ends of the rails together. Hence the MASSIVE sander used at the end. Welding is when two pieces of metal are fused together by way of ANOTHER piece of molten metal that fuses to the two pieces.

[@southern207hobbies]

+protoborg actually termite that's used in welding rails together has extra metal form the production of nails but there is a newer form of termite welding that uses a much harder metal for the rail head area

[@mehdizareie9906]

The men and women who work on the rail are very hard-working and very clever. My father worked on Iranian railways for more than thirty years. I kiss my hand and all the active workers in the railways. Do not be tired of the bravado. I hope your hands and feet are always strong.

[@DonLuc23]

It is fascinating to watch, and no dumb music....

[@bm1113]

Thanks i try to have the orginal sound on my videos as often i can :) if someone want music then they can mute the videos and play that music you like :)

[@RangieNZ]

How come none of the tie springs were pushed in, to lock down each end of the rails? I kept thinking the rails were about to fall over because they weren't secured! :(

[@bm1113]

+RangieNZ they need to adjust the gauge and after that one of these come kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXjPlJWQhtxmmZo

[@robin123robin1]

If the machine didn't make all that noise, I would fall asleep on the job

[@SheriffofYouTube]

great use of moving things . and mechanical automation. smart to tow all the weight of the cross beams by rail... and laying 6 cross a minute is pretty fast

[@dennismccunney4462]

And being able to do it that fast is why you use machinery like this to do it. The last I knew, laying track in the UIS cast about a million USD per mile (but that was years back and it will be more now.) But how much time it will take is more important than Cost Per Mile, so...

[@randbarrett8706]

Wow, a rail laying machine with its own railway on top

[@thebeast7255]

I wonder how much this can lay in an hour.

[@joustmee3398]

How much track/distance can they lay on average in a day. Also wished there was an audio narrative to explain what was happening along the way. Just a thought. Thank you to the uploader taking the time to film this and posting. Very informative.

[@dynamicsolution8166]

1.25 miles a day...this machine is sick!!!!

[@bm1113]

@Dr Moriarty And for my part, I think it's better to be quiet instead of try to explain something in my bad English Since there are few viewers who would understand Swedish ;)

[@bm1113]

@Dr Moriarty Thanks for the kind words. I believe in having easier to get good in writing than what I have in speech because I don't have to think about pronunciation of different words and spelling programs and Google can help me if I am uncertain even if they rarely think right about technical terms ;)

[@bm1113]

@Dr Moriarty wisely written. It is much easier to change a description then need to take down and upload a new movie if something has gone wrong. And even though I am fascinated by railways, this is not my home ground so I have been needed to studying in retrospect exactly what I have been filming ;)

[@jimbrent8151]

@Dr Moriarty Darn I wish I could have seen those... That is exact the type of content I look for... Best wishes.

[@tracynation239]

An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.

[@ModelBoatMayhemPhotos]

Awesome!

[@the51craw]

Fantastic! Could we get a clip where the welding is none?

[@bm1113]

Håkan Berg Thanks Not mine clip but here are a similar welding kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6bbpHmdod9ln8k