Abstract: A process for the continuous welding of railroad rail sections (3) during the laying down thereof, involves a particularly equipped train set (5-5'), formed by one or more trucks (5,5') having a lowered load platform inserted into the operating train, between the trucks (1) which carry the new rail sections (3) and ties (2), and the operating machine which lays them down. On board this equipped train set (5-5') there are performed the operations for arranging to line, to level and to abut the subsequent rail sections (3), as well as their welding, by welding machines (15-17) which are movable on a trolley (8) along the train set (5-5').

Abstract: This plough adapted to be mounted on a railroad tracklaying machine comprises in its plough area members capable of disaggregating and/or thrusting aside the old compact ballast. These members consist of ejectors acting like pistons and extending through apertures formed in the ploughshares; the ejectors movable across the normal direction of travel of the plough under the control are driven by an actuating mechanism imparting a reciprocating motion thereto, and may be replaced by blades disposed beneath, and substantially parallel to, the ploughshares, the actuating mechanism being adapted to impart to these blades a movement substantially of translation along a closed path.

Abstract: A plough to be applied to a machine for rehabilitating a railway track, for performing the operation consisting in displacing the ballast to be renewed. Lateral ejectors are applied to the lower portion of the plough and actuated alternatively for breaking the compact ballast and push the gravel so as to gradually accumulate same on the sides and afford and easy forward travel of the plough for making a relatively deep cutting into which the new ties can be laid without requiring a subsequent sinking thereof. The lateral ejectors are actuated two at a time, one to the right and the other to the left, for compensating side stress. A possible mechanism for actuating the lateral ejectors comprises rockers having unequal arms and actuated by a hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: A machine for the renewal of railway tracks adapted to replace old rails and/or old sleepers with new rails and/or new sleepers.This machine comprises two frames connected by a swivel and resting on a front, middle and rear bogie. The equipment for the removal of old rails is disposed between the front and middle bogie, and the equipment for the removal of old sleepers, the renewal of the ballast, the laying down of new sleepers and new rails, is located between the middle bogie and the rear bogie. The middle bogie is equipped during the working cycles with a carriage means capable of progressing on the old sleepers still in service but deprived of rails, which sleepers act as a lateral guiding means for said carriage means.