Tamping machine

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A tamping machine or ballast tamper, informally simply a tamper, is a self-propelled, rail-mounted machine used to position very precisely the track (rail and connected sleepers), by means of a lifting lining unit (or clamp), and stabilize the new position by packing (or tamping) the track ballast under railway tracks, by means of a group of mechanized tines.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Tamping machine”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: JolietJake (Hu), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.