. Building a railroad; a handbook devoted to a new, speedy and economical method of performing every operation from grading right-of-way to ballasting and maintaining track . f^i^^^mes A Few of the Americans Stunts Among the many appealing time-and-money-sav-ing Auxiliary uses of the American, are:Pile Driving,Light Wrecking,Steam Shovel work,Locomotive Crane work,Emergency Ditching, or Slide Removing,Coal, Gravel or Riprap Handling,Log Loading, Bridge and Building Train work. Traveler for erecting or razing bridges, Loading and Unloading,Track Laying and Relaying,Materi
. Building a railroad; a handbook devoted to a new, speedy and economical method of performing every operation from grading right-of-way to ballasting and maintaining track . f^i^^^mes A Few of the Americans Stunts Among the many appealing time-and-money-sav-ing Auxiliary uses of the American, are:Pile Driving,Light Wrecking,Steam Shovel work,Locomotive Crane work,Emergency Ditching, or Slide Removing,Coal, Gravel or Riprap Handling,Log Loading, Bridge and Building Train work. Traveler for erecting or razing bridges, Loading and Unloading,Track Laying and Relaying,Material, Tie and Timber Handling,Grab Bucket Work. Because of the Auxiliary Uses, efforts can beconcentrated on one job and clean up all parts of itquickly so another job can be started and finishedin the same way. With an American on the job,many things can be done that were left undone before. 65 Building a Railroad The Results. A Clean, Well Ditched Cut Its a question of investment and Results, pureand simple. It is easy to pay out quickly in extralabor and make-shift equipment enough to carry theinvestment in an American Railroad Ditcher forseveral years. One Western General Manager saved the cost priceof his American in two weeks by keeping his roadopen after a hand crew of 200 men had utterlyfailed. He says: I would not take sS25, for itif I could not procure another. The American made good in such a verypronounced manner for large Southern contract-ors in track laying alone, before they had anopportunity of trying it at anything else, that theysaid, It is more than you claim for it, and that is say-ing a good deal. $10, would not l^uy it if wecould not get another. An American saved a thousand dollars in coldhard cash in building a mile of road on a Northern line. 66 TABLE OF CONTENTS PageForeword 3 Introduction 4, 5 Starting tlie Job 6 Portable Track Travel 7, 8, 24, 25 Preparing Right-of-Wa
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