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Plasser & Theurer handed over new MTW 100.216 motor tower cars to EUROPTEN during a small ceremony. These modern machines are the company’s way of addressing the increasing demand for building new railway lines as well as railway-line electrification and maintenance. They are mostly intended for operations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
With two new MTW 100.216 motor tower cars handed over by Plasser & Theurer, the company European Trans Energy GmbH (EUROPTEN) continues to expand its vehicle fleet to include the optimal work vehicle for safe and efficient work on the overhead contact line. A third MTW in the same design followed in April 2023.
When handing the vehicle over to Hannes Androsch, chairman of the EUROPTEN supervisory board, Johannes Max-Theurer emphasized the company’s successful, long-standing business relationship with EUROPTEN and its predecessor. Domiciled in Vienna, it is active in numerous railway upgrades in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland. The company has been electrifying newly built lines or modernizing contact line systems since 1926. Versatile, reliable machines that are flexible in application, such as the MTW 100.216, are used for this demanding work. Against the backdrop of a shift from road to rail and in view of increasing demand, EUROPTEN is strengthening its fleet with no less than three MTWs in line with the motto “Transmission is our Mission”. The MTW 100.216 will already begin operating in Austria as well at the end of January.
The length of the MTW 100.216 over its buffers is almost 19 metres. It carries a fully hydraulic three-part column lifting platform in the middle of its frame for all work on the overhead contact line. Two of the platforms can be extended laterally by up to 4 metres each. This simplifies and speeds up assembly work significantly. In this way, three different gripping ranges at a working height of up to more than eight metres can be accessed independently. The walk-on rooftops feature automatically folding guard-rails. A railway crane with a mountable personnel basket is located at one end of the car. Specially designed for work on overhead contact line systems, it can also be used as a loading crane and assembly aid. Its operating radius with the basket and hooks reaches up to 18 metres above the track and, with hydraulic outriggers, up to approx. 14 metres laterally from it. In working mode, the machine can be moved both from the personnel basket and the work platform.
Located in the large cab behind the front driver’s cab, the MTW has an integrated workshop cab with a work bench and air-conditioned spaces that include a kitchenette, table, and seating for up to eight people.
