[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 734 -- Mag-Lev Maintenance Car

[Onno Meyer]

Zan replied to me:

> Another option for damaged track would be a system similar (or
> identical?) to the construction machinery.  Simply destroy the damaged
> track, possibly recycling it and extrude new track.
>  ____   __   __
> / A  \_/B \_/C \            <- repair vehicle
> ======          -.-=.=-.=-  <- damaged track
> 
> Part A is the transport system.  Part B is the track builder (super fast
> drying concrete?)  Part C destroys damaged track and feeds reusable
> parts into part B.  Damaged or destroyed pylons on elevated sections
> would require other vehicles and engineering effort.

I did something much like this for a railway in a mine. Three robots,
to tunnel and build tracks. 

For a mag-lev, the destructor part could be Powered Tillage Equipment
with the extra-heavy-duty modifier and the constructor a cement mixer 
drum (both VXi20) plus a couple of robot arms.