. 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 . Building a Railroad. Laying Track the Aincricju Way go into each rail length and one-half minute to hookthe chain. The man on the rail car has five minutesin which to do his work and pull the chain backfor the tie man. His work is simply attaching thetongs to the two rails which go onto each sec-tion of track and perhaps guide them somewhatas they start to swing. Located as he is, be-tween the machine and the tie cars, he
. 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 . Building a Railroad. Laying Track the Aincricju Way go into each rail length and one-half minute to hookthe chain. The man on the rail car has five minutesin which to do his work and pull the chain backfor the tie man. His work is simply attaching thetongs to the two rails which go onto each sec-tion of track and perhaps guide them somewhatas they start to swing. Located as he is, be-tween the machine and the tie cars, he is in posi-tion to pass the chain to the latter. The spikers and nippers have five minutes inwhich to distribute eighteen ties, place rails andangle bars, and do all the necessary spiking and bolt-ing; in fact, all of the work that is necessary to bedone before the machine and work train can bemoved forward. It should be remembered thatthere are twelve men in this part of the crew—eightspikers and four nippers. Five minutes also area\ailable to the spike peddler for carrying seventy-twospikes, two pairs of angle bars and eight bolts, notover 40 feet from the machine car, and distributi
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