. The trackman's helper, a handbook for track foremen, supervisors and engineers . Lined for Fig. 52. Turnout Without Frog or Points light empty flat cars will pass over the track withoutspreading it or getting ofi: the track as a locomotive isapt to. With a well trained and organized gang three orfour cars may be spurred out in this way and the trackclosed in ten minutes, after thorough preliminarypreparations have been made/ 260 THE TRACKMANS HELPER Laying switches. Locate the frog with a view tocutting the least possible number of rails. After youhave determined where the frog point will co
. The trackman's helper, a handbook for track foremen, supervisors and engineers . Lined for Fig. 52. Turnout Without Frog or Points light empty flat cars will pass over the track withoutspreading it or getting ofi: the track as a locomotive isapt to. With a well trained and organized gang three orfour cars may be spurred out in this way and the trackclosed in ten minutes, after thorough preliminarypreparations have been made/ 260 THE TRACKMANS HELPER Laying switches. Locate the frog with a view tocutting the least possible number of rails. After youhave determined where the frog point will come, markthe place on the track rail, take from the turnout tablethe distance from the switch point to point of frogcorresponding to the number of the frog which isused. The head block can now be located by meas-uring the total distance obtained from the frog point. Make marks with chalk along the flanges of the railbetween the head block and frog, so that the switchties can all be placed the proper distances apart fromcenter to center. After the switch ties have all beenarrange
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