Talk:Road–rail vehicle

April 2008

 * Added links to some external sites regaring road-rail vehicles.
 * Added data on road-transferrable locos - will need to add a ref to support the development information.
 * Added information on trademarks and history of Road rail developmentSulzer55 (talk) 11:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Article Split
“Hy-rail” should be a seprate article. “Hy-Rail” itself is a trademarked name of a company (I can’t remember which one) which produces the components, and either way they are the devices that amek the vehicles work, not the vehicle itself; There is more than one way (type of equipment) that allow vehicles to work on both rails and roads. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.102.19.148 (talk) 06:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The article identifies the trademark owner - Harsco Track Technologies - I believe that the article, as it is, addresses the issue. "hi-rail" and its various spellings, is generically used to describe a road-rail vehicle Sulzer55 (talk) 21:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

gallery creation

 * The article was packed with pictures to the point that it was saturated with images that overflowed their section. As a way to fix this problem, I've created a gallery section and moved some pictures to it.  Could anyone take a look at it? -- Mecanismo | Talk 20:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Agricultural tires for driving on rails?
Has anyone ever seen large agricultural (tractor) tires designed to run on railroad tracks? They recently cleared the tracks near here, and from what I can tell, they used a front-end loader or tractor, riding on rubber tires, only the tires had grooves in the middle sized to ride directly on the tracks. There was no flanged wheels, because the snow in between would show if flanged wheels had been used on them. Also, there were spots where the tracks cross roads and paths, and in those places, the machine let the tracks and drove around plowing around the area. The tracks it left looked like normal ag tires, only you could see the groove in the middle (similar to the effect when a truck with dual wheels drives in the snow, it leaves a raised ridge in the space between the tires). They were too large to be for a normal pickup-sized truck. The only other thing it could have been is rubber tracks of some sort, but whatever it was, it was designed to fit directly onto a standard gauge railroad track. I've googled everything I can think of, and haven't got anything. I know that's not technically a "road" vehicle, but it's designed to run on or off tracks. .45Colt 22:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by .45Colt (talk • contribs)

Technical terms
"Engineering possession?" Someone please translate/change/explain this for people who don't work in the industry. Mazeau (talk) 03:21, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Added "(when a section of the line is handed over for maintenance and operational trains are blocked from entering the section)" to the relevant text. Jreed 01 (talk) 07:41, 29 September 2021 (UTC)