. 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 . % ^- %i Making a Fill. SCftL£y,6-IFT. American Ditcher Digging Below Rails and Building Fill 3 9 HighWith Material Taken From Side-i. sides and deposits it in front as it goes, to make thefollowing fill: Depth of fill, 3 ft. 9 in. Width at top, 12 ft. Slopes, 1 to 1. The two 100 lb. 26 ft. portable track sections serveadmirably in this situation as they give themachine a good long solid working base on the 18 Building, a
. 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 . % ^- %i Making a Fill. SCftL£y,6-IFT. American Ditcher Digging Below Rails and Building Fill 3 9 HighWith Material Taken From Side-i. sides and deposits it in front as it goes, to make thefollowing fill: Depth of fill, 3 ft. 9 in. Width at top, 12 ft. Slopes, 1 to 1. The two 100 lb. 26 ft. portable track sections serveadmirably in this situation as they give themachine a good long solid working base on the 18 Building, a Railroad new grade. It is morecommon to spike ties tothe rails in this opera- IHBNW^ii^ ^i^M&..^^A tion than in making cutsffist^CH-^^^i^Mei^^i because the machine is working on fresh degree of firm-ness of the material de-termines whether tiesshould be used. Whenonly a few are requiredthey are often used with-out spiking. Loose tiesare either carried from rear to front by the laborers,or piled on the dipper and conveyed around by themachine. The weight of the material falling from the dip-per, and the weight of the machine passing over onthe portable track sections, pack and
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