Freelancer,
Yeah, maybe it has a dual function, but as I said, the second day I drove by, I saw the little guy (little in comparison to the other bohemeths)
, and it was brushing up loose balast. From the opinions and links in this thread, and the little bit I saw (most of the workers were just kinda hanging around, planning what to do I guess), the top one seems to be a balast spreader and the big one at the bottom has to be the multi-tasker of all multi-taskers. I did see one guy reaching into one of those scoops in the top one and was taking out a shovel full of gravel. Perhaps the first scoop drops the balast and the second one levels it out
The only one I know for sure now is the second one, but I think we're getting closer to what the other two do. Now if those "workers" were doing more than just standing around I might have seem those two actually doing something.
I liked that link to the model.
I'd buy one in a flash if it came in N scale. :thumb: :thumb: