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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
Nordco Inc., Oak Creek, WI (US);
Allan Irion, Milwaukee, WI (US);
William D. Straub, Elm Grove, WI (US);
Bruce Michael Boczkiewicz, Castine, ME (US);
Justin Jerome Pipol, Hartland, WI (US);
Kyle Matthew Neubauer, Lexington, SC (US);
Nichalos Lee Schultz, New Berlin, WI (US);
Jim Boyd, Oak Creek, WI (US);
Abstract
A rail maintenance of way machine for a route is provided that includes a single chassis supporting a plurality of working modules. The modules include at least a broom module that can manipulate ballast and loose material that are disposed on a location of the route adjacent to the chassis a spike supply module that can provide a fastener; a tie spiker module that can receive the fastener from the spike supply module and to drive the supplied fastener through an aperture defined by a tie plate and into a replacement tie; and an anchor module that can remove an installed anchor from an installed tie and to install an anchor onto the replacement tie.