Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 8, 2007

An early section car maintenance of way vehicle, similar to a speeder.

In this image, the car's engine is being used to both drill a hole in the rail and to grind a part at the back of the car. Cars like this one have since been replaced with Road-rail vehicles, self-propelled vehicles that can be legally used on both roads and rails.

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