Working on the Railroad

[Amtrak Watcher]

Wow...

 

[Ashland Train Enthusiast]

That's a really cool video. Great find!

 

[railiner]

That is awesome technology. Wonder how much distance it can work in a day?

I also wonder why they still had men dropping those tie-clips or whatever you call them. That looks like a hazardous job.

 

[Shanghai]

Technical Innovation!!

 

[AlanB]

I've seen a similar machine in use on the Long Island RR replacing ties at the Woodside station. It's quite impressive to watch. I'll have to go and see if I can find a story that I saw at that time, but I seem to recall that they can do something like 2 to 3 miles of track in one day.

 

[railiner]

I've seen a similar machine in use on the Long Island RR replacing ties at the Woodside station. It's quite impressive to watch. I'll have to go and see if I can find a story that I saw at that time, but I seem to recall that they can do something like 2 to 3 miles of track in one day.

All that technology and only 2 to 3 miles a day?

Makes the achievement of ten miles of track laid by hand labor in a day seem all the more amazing by Jack Casement's CPRR crew a century and a half ago.

Only kidding, really just an apples and oranges comparo. The modern railway is lightyears better than the former.

 

[battalion51]

My sister's boyfriend sent that video to me, pretty cool to see how the whole thing "lays out".