[Thanks to Kirk]
A train made for the automatic laying of train tracks. Real kewl. ... Look at the number of tasks these machines do. Thats a real engineering accomplishment.
Once in the middle of the night I saw a train which sucked up the fist-sized rocks which are between the train tracks, and spit down clean ones! The noise it made was absolutely fantastic, it was like an industrial art happening, I loved it. I lived then just fifty meters from the tracks, and this train was only a couple of meters behind a fence.
As to why those rocks would need replacing, beats me.
Didn't we discuss the replacement of ballast because of settling and fractures a while back?
ReplyDeleteOh, and I feel cheated, that train seemed to be replacing ties/sleepers and ballast, not track. The track was recycled.
ReplyDeleteCould be another marble I've lost. Ah well.
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