. Railway track and track work . t across North Dakota, 263 miles, to connectwith a branch line which the Canadian Pacific Ry. was then buildingsoutheast from Pasqua (on the main line) to Portal, on the United Statesboundary, 160 miles. The track is laid with 30-ft. rails, weighing 72 lbs. per yd., spiked tocross-ties 6 ins. thick, 7 to 10 ins. wide and 8 ft. long, spaced at the rate of2,816 to 2,992 per mile, or 16 to 17 per rail length. The rails have squarethree-tie supported joints, spliced by 40-in. angle bars with six %-in. bolts,spaced 6, 6%, 7, 6% and 6 ins. c. to c. The engineer did n
. Railway track and track work . t across North Dakota, 263 miles, to connectwith a branch line which the Canadian Pacific Ry. was then buildingsoutheast from Pasqua (on the main line) to Portal, on the United Statesboundary, 160 miles. The track is laid with 30-ft. rails, weighing 72 lbs. per yd., spiked tocross-ties 6 ins. thick, 7 to 10 ins. wide and 8 ft. long, spaced at the rate of2,816 to 2,992 per mile, or 16 to 17 per rail length. The rails have squarethree-tie supported joints, spliced by 40-in. angle bars with six %-in. bolts,spaced 6, 6%, 7, 6% and 6 ins. c. to c. The engineer did not approve, of thisjoint, and questioned the utility of any splice bar exceeding 22 to 26 ins. inlength. On the older track, south of Valley City, the track has suspendedjoints, with joint ties 7 ins. apart between faces, and the rails spliced by23-in. Samson angle bars, with four bolts spaced 4%, 7 and 4y2 ins. c. to width at subgrade is 16 ft. The tracklaying and surfacing were doneby the railway company. 290 TRACK TRACKLAYING AND BALLASTING. 291 The entire construction train was made up of 32 cars, as follows: 8. Water car. 9 to 16. Flat cars with rails and Telegraph to 32. Box cars with ties. 1. Pioneer car. 2. Store car. 3. 4. Dining and sleeping cars. 5. Kitchen car. 6. Dining and sleeping car. 7. Feed car. Cars No. 1 to 8, both inclusive, formed the boarding or work train, whichwas always kept at the head of the track. The material train, composed ofcars Nos. 9 to 32, both inclusive, was brought up during the night fromthe last sidetrack, and stopped so that the interval between cars Nos. 8and 9 was about 400 ft. The tie cars, Nos. 18 to 32, were then cut off atthe coupling between Nos. 17 and 18, and the rail and telegraph cars weremoved up and coupled to the boarding train, making the train as described. Work commenced at 7 a. m., the teams then beginning to haul ties fromthe five rear cars onto the grade (which had a top
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