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The Unimog is 75 today. We haven’t had the vehicle
for sale in Austria for all that time

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but Pappas has been selling the Unimog for a number of decades now.
And the Unimog road-railer has been part of our portfolio for ages.

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It's a bit of a niche but a niche with a broad customer base.
Because our clientèle ranges from fire brigades to railway companies,

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industrial concerns and haulage companies, all with one thing in common:
the fact that they transport their goods by rail.

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Or service rail tracks. Or shunt wagons.

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The Unimog road-railer is a niche area for us, but a wide-ranging one.
We have customers in all parts of Austria with this product,

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which can drive both on the road and on rails.
Here we have the latest vehicle, the current one,

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that we supplied to Hengl in Limberg.
 A Unimog U 423 road-railer with the Zagro road-rail system.

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That’s a 13.8-tonne chassis that’s properly ballasted
so that it actually weighs that much.

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It needs it so that all 231 hp
of its power is transferred to the track.

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The special feature of the Unimog is that it drives on the rails with rubber tyres.

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That means we have a much higher degree of friction here than with conventional road-rail vehicles
where iron is rubbing against iron. Here we’ve got rubber on iron.

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This give us a lot of thrust and braking power.
And on the subject of braking power, we have also attached an 800-tonne wagon-braking system.

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This means we can even bring gross combination weights of 800 t to a standstill.

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Another feature of this Unimog is the air planer system
used for drying the rails.

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Because of the special conditions here at Hengl,
where the aggregate is loaded wet to keep the dust down.

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That means an awful lot of sand and bits of stone drain down with the water
and create a slippery emulsion on the rails

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which obviously reduces the amount of friction. With the air planer you can
remove the dirt off the top of the rails.

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And still have very high drive forces
to actually be able to move the heavy loads.

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So, everything is set up around the user to give good visibility, with the big panoramic windows
and the low side windows,

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and even the angles I still can’t see myself
are covered really well by camera systems here.

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That means I can watch the rail-guiding system via the cameras
so I can hit the rails more accurately when switching to the tracks.

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Then I have another camera at the back for coupling wagons,
which gives me a direct view of the trailer coupling

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so I know exactly when the vehicle
is actually coupled.

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Basically – if we look at the figures – what we are
is one of the biggest suppliers of rail ballast for the Public-Private Partnership (ÖPP) in eastern Austria.

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And on average our Unimog loads around 150,000 tonnes a year
and delivers it to the railway.

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We had to wait a bit for it but it was worth it.
We are very satisfied with it and very happy.

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Because it also has more power and a greater operating weight
and can cover longer distances at a lower cost, of course.

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And it is our new pride and joy.
Obviously also a great flagship for the company, the whole operation and our group.

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We’ve been very happy with the Unimog for over 20 years.
And we've got a few key facts for you.

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With our old Unimog we could move about 500 tonnes a day.
Now with our new flagship vehicle we can do double that.

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So it’s possible to transport around 1000 tonnes. It’s used to maximum capacity
on our rail network.

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We have a track length of about 300 to 500 metres and obviously also
save a huge amount of time with this new unit.

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It can do up to 50 km/h on the rails but our driver actually says
that’s too fast for him.

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I think everyone should make their own mind up.
As I said, we’re very happy with it

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and hope to be able to produce and load
thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of tonnes.