. 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 . Cliayin:; Timber From Righl-:if-\Vay Timber on the right-of-way is felled and cut tolength in the customary manner, by hand crew,placing to side of the right-of-way to be ^loaded oncars by the machine any time after the road isj^com-pleted. Grubbing, Removing Stumps and Boulders Crew line-iip: One operator for American fireman iorAmerican man and two laborers chain stumps and
. 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 . Cliayin:; Timber From Righl-:if-\Vay Timber on the right-of-way is felled and cut tolength in the customary manner, by hand crew,placing to side of the right-of-way to be ^loaded oncars by the machine any time after the road isj^com-pleted. Grubbing, Removing Stumps and Boulders Crew line-iip: One operator for American fireman iorAmerican man and two laborers chain stumps and boulders todipper and act as handy men on the ground. Manand team furnish fuel and water. An ideal watertank holds 10 barrels of water, with box on top forapproximately 1000 lbs. coal. If track is laid downto machine, as the grade is completed, the fuel andwater may be supplied from that source. In making cuts the machine grubs around orundermines a stump so that it is easily pulled out, Building a Railroad. if the cut is light, or fallsdown into the cut if it isdeeper. In scratch work, orwhere the machine cannotdig around the stump, asit does in making cuts, itis advisable to loosen up2f^ the stumps with from 15to 20 lbs. of powder to thestation of 100 ft., as com-pared with 35 to 40 lbs. bythe arm strong method. Removing a Slump J^e Stunip is then pulled out bodily by the machine by running a chain fromstump to center dipper tooth and hoisting thedipper. The grubbing and grading are both done at onesetting of machine, completing the grade as it goes. Boulders and stumps are not only removed fromwhere imbedded, but are conveyed by the machineout of the way, clear of the grade. The America?i de-posits stumps and boulders 30 feet on either side of thecenter grade line, thus clearing a 60-foot right-of-way,and with the pullback drum can remove such ma-terial to a greater distanceif desired, by use of snatchblock. This drum holds 725feet of 5 8 inch wire rope. The steam shovel fai
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