1910 automated track laying

[fred lundgren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dOcTFN5R4&feature=em-uploademail

[Terry Toenges]

Neat video. As I watched, I wondered how many smashed fingers and toes there were along the way.

[Anubis]

Very interesting!

(Gotta LOVE that seam-shovel at the beginning......)

I was pretty amazed at how the rig carrying the sections of rail, being pushed by the locomotive, was running on rails that were just sitting there....without even a plate or a spike to stop them from tipping over, and causing a derailment....

WOW!


Thanks for posting, Fred!





John.

[Terry Toenges]

I wondered about that too, John. I had to rewatch that a couple of times to make sure I wasn't missing the spiking somewhere when the rail was first laid.