. 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 . merican can pick upthe material in front anddeposit it either onto a flat or into a dump car in the rear. A dump car serves admirably in this work, as it can be taken out to end of the cut and dumped very quickly and set back to the machine, with very little loss of maximum digging radius of 30 ft. 6 in. from center of track gi\-es ample room for future slides, without their co\ering the track. Or the American wi
. 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 . merican can pick upthe material in front anddeposit it either onto a flat or into a dump car in the rear. A dump car serves admirably in this work, as it can be taken out to end of the cut and dumped very quickly and set back to the machine, with very little loss of maximum digging radius of 30 ft. 6 in. from center of track gi\-es ample room for future slides, without their co\ering the track. Or the American will work right into the slide under its own power, on the standard gauge track, casting over as it clears the way. Boulders, trees, snow, water and other obstacles that limit the efficiency of the hand crew and their little sho\els are sport for the American. A narrow gauge, western road purchased can on 8-wheel MCB trucks almost exclusively for removing snow slides from cuts. Their rotary snow plow was displaced b^ the American because the rocks and boulders kept the rotary out of commission most of the time, but the American did not mind them in the £r- Cleaning Up a Slide 51 ^iiildin^ a Railroad Right-of-way Ditching
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