[Leica] Dual Rail Gang

[Don Dory]

Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:01 PM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> they move it in quarter-mile sections and then weld it together before
> they spike it down.
>
> the loads extend over many cars and fasten down in the center car only to
> allow for the movement as they bend in curves.
>
> it’s flexibility is astonishing in great lengths-looks almost like
> play-doh:
> https://youtu.be/M9GXKqIKChg
> https://youtu.be/yNUijDWhxtM
> https://youtu.be/FQDh1duAyok
>
>
> Ric Carter
> www.home.CartersXRd.net
> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
>
> -the world’s mosst careless typist-
>
>
> > On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:54 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I like the larger emphasis on the workforce.  I learn something from
> every
> > set.  As a side comment, when they were replacing rail on the main line
> > south of Atlanta welded rail the length of the supply train was used from
> > special transport cars.  I don't know how they navigated some of the
> > inevitable curves as that weight rail doesn't want to bend but that was
> the
> > load out on the trains heading south.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 7:49 PM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> NS Dual Rail Gang 3 in Havelock NC in December, gallery here:
> >>
> >> https://2021.cartersxrd.net/2021.01.18x.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Ric Carter
> >> www.home.CartersXRd.net
> >> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
> >>
> >> -the world’s mosst careless typist-
> >>
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