. 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 . and the track islaid on the new grade,the American travelsover the track on the standard gauge auxiliary truckwheels, digging and spreading the ballast as it cost of both ballasting and spreading is includedin the one operation. The American digs thematerial from either side, and places it on the trackin front. The one laborer works in front of themachine to remove roots and rocks that might inter-fere
. 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 . and the track islaid on the new grade,the American travelsover the track on the standard gauge auxiliary truckwheels, digging and spreading the ballast as it cost of both ballasting and spreading is includedin the one operation. The American digs thematerial from either side, and places it on the trackin front. The one laborer works in front of themachine to remove roots and rocks that might inter-fere with the machine passing over the material inthe act of spreading. The American easily ballasts and spreads 2,000ft. of track in 10 hours at a cost of $ per stationof 100 ft., or $ per day, when sufficient materialcan be obtained from the sides. This estimate in-cludes a liberal amount for upkeep, interest, deprecia-tion, etc. The maximum dig-ging depth of 8 ft. 4 rail on which ma-chine sets, and maxi-mum digging radius of30 ft. 6 in. on levelwith the rail, usuallypermits obtaining amplematerial from the sides. This method elimin-ates the work train. 44 Building a Railroad ■ .J\ Otherwise necessary to 1 /# provide this material, or ^~p Jn ^^^ force of at least 20 ^^TTlP^Sj hand shovelers required ^^ y, . ^M.^U in scratch work costs as much or more than showing Type Of Sprcadi-r Used j* t ^i gradmg, and the greaterthe fill the more disadvantage the hand crewworks under, with proportionate increase in cost. Ballasting with hand shovelers may easily cost$ per station of 100 ft. or from $ to $ mile. Spreading the material evenly between and overthe ties for the surfacing crew is the final act of ballast-ing. A home-made spreader is shown in the illustra-tion accompanying. This is made by hooking twopieces of ^-in. wrought iron into pockets in eitherend of the machine truck, bending the iron downtoward the rail and back up, providing for dropp
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