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Big job Matweld’s commitment to those ideals. Modern Track Machinery recently introduced a number of recording instruments to the North American market, the Diamond-S, Amber and the Garnet. “We have identiﬁed the market’s need to record, store and analyze track geometry,” said Al Reynolds, general sales manager at Modern Track Machinery. “We have developed three levels of instruments to do this: The Diamond-S is a new generation portable, hand-pushed digital track geometry inspection trolley for measuring gauge, cross-level, twist, check rail gap and the switch point/stock rail. This is a tool that will enable you to cover all of your track geometry needs.” Reynolds continued, “The Amber will record track gauge, super elevation and twist. It allows you to pre-set your track geometry proﬁle and compares them to the actual track conditions. This is all recordable for analysis and maintenance planning. Small tools Trio of tools Garnet. It does everything that the RCAT does only in digital read out plus allows documentation and is Blue Tooth enabled for easy data transfer,” said Reynolds. “The Power Team® brand of SPX Hydraulic Technologies® has a number of hand-held tools that are ideal for railway applications requiring strong concentrated force; such as track repairs, railway car maintenance, bearing replacement or other heavy lifting requirements. We have high-force hydraulic pumps and track jacks for aligning track sections. Our hydraulic rams can be used for repairing damage to the sides and ends of rail cars,” said Mark L. W. Rehwald, market development manager with SPX. “In addition, Power Team manufactures a PR Series 100-ton railroad axle journal roller bearing puller/installer, the PLE/ PLA series portable high tonnage railroad edition pump and cart modules and the IJ series inﬂatable jacks speciﬁcally designed to reduce time and effort in per- Upped maintenance, ups demand AirBoss’ clip removal tool. “The newest tool is an electronic version to the industry standard RCAT track level gauge that we have supplied for years. We will now offer both units. The electronic version will be called the 30 Railway Track & Structures December 2008 www.rtands.com http://www.rtands.comwww.rtands.com

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