Unusual road-rail truck design

[Sacto1985]

YouTube poster nimo5 just posted an interesting video of a unusual road-rail truck used for track maintenance being tested on the JR West Sankō Line around Gōbira Station:

 

 

Note the road-rail truck runs on the rails using a special dolly, which is shown being unloaded from the truck and the truck is backed into the dolly so the truck's moving wheels drive one set of dolly wheels to move the whole unit back and forth.

[miyakoji]

I was wondering if this was the product of the local JR West shop, but it looks like a company builds this thing.  The manufacturer's main site is http://www.railtec.jp/index.html .  Here's a nimo5 video from 2009 with this same device, although in this one a kei-truck is used.  Around 4:10 the truck is driven onto it, and the alignment isn't perfect--the front tire of the truck rubs against the lip of the ramp.  Kind of painful to watch, they're lucky they didn't have a de-tire-ment .

 

 

[cteno4]

Very cool! Going to havta make me one of these for the layout!

 

Thanks

 

Jeff

Edited September 18, 2013 by cteno4

[Sacto1985]

By the way, nimo5 just posted a YouTube video of this road-rail truck being disassembled: