I am a member of a volunteer operating railroad museum. I have experience in my own RTK using F9P boards and app writing with the Ai2 app programming platforms. We are looking to use open GPS to level our railroad tracks. There is professional equipment out there, but it is outside of our budget. What we want to accomplish is pretty simple and similar to surface drainage in that we want to raise the tracks and fill in under the ties. We have the machine to do it, but it is set up like a laser and is need of a rebuild. So we would like to survey the section of track and use use the data to give us a plan to raise the tracks. Lowering the tracks is not easy, but generally we just raise them. Is there an option for this? I would think it would be just like leveling a field where we control each end of the blade. It knows where you are at and it knows how high the receiver should be. Anyone have any input? Are foolish to try it? We do have areas with a lot of trees, so it might not work to well anyway.
Hey Pat, do you know what it would take to plug this in to a quadtrac? I believe there’s a 4-pin deutsch connector under the cab that controls the hydraulics on 1 and 3 which is what the Trimble plugs into
