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What is eater packing? What is included in the maintenance carried out by gangs commonly seen on the tracks?

April 26, 2017Commonly gangs included maintenance seen tracks

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What is eater packing? What is included in the maintenance carried out by gangs commonly seen on the tracks?

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The most common system of routine manual (non-mechanized) track maintenance is known as through packing or beater packing (from the name of the tool used for packing ballast, a ‘beater’).