ARRANGEMENT FOR RELOADING FOULING IN BALLAST OF RAILWAY IN CLEANING

A train of railroad cars for receiving, transporting and discharging bulk material, comprising a succession of cars coupled together for movement along a track in an operating direction, each one of the cars having a frame and a last one of the cars in the operating direction constituting a loading station for the bulk material. A plurality of transport containers for the bulk material is arranged on the car frames, a continuous track extends on the frames of the succession of cars along the train in said direction laterally of the containers, and a mobile gantry crane is mounted on the track for movement therealong to the loading station. A first elongated conveyor for respective ones of the containers is mounted on the last car between the track. A second, independently driven elongated conveyor for respective ones of the containers is mounted below the first elongated conveyor and spaced therefrom by a distance corresponding at least to the height of the containers, the second conveyor extending between two ends thereof, and a respective container transfer platform is arranged in the range of each conveyor end, each transfer platform being linked to the frame of the last car and each transfer platform including a drive for vertically adjusting the transfer platform.