Show R 1 RAPID WORK I 1 za I 1 11 laying yew new aall V 11 allo are run 4 liliie every iov 1 1 to the uninitiated the task ct cf track roll pairing on oil the manhattan J ii rond road li ii a I 1 6 ight wel I 1 wo rth when it ii I 1 taken into consideration that ali U miles of rail I 1 are token taken up and relied while viale in trains ains aro are I 1 ru running nn ing sometimes mes less t than hall a m minute anute apart tb e section gangs on t the lie tip country road roads were they ft to watch the experts on oil the L roads woi work k would undoubtedly go home with rew ideas in their fiends in ids I 1 I 1 saati dangot 1 alroid road men the other day flay repair repairing ng I 1 track rack on oll tho tile section at the park place station on the sixth acentia av line trains were then running at least leas one conein in every lo two 10 minutes there was a gang ot of twenty men hard muscled sturdy fellows who thoroughly understood tl belr business and they were supervised si ly ft a foreman fully awake to ins his duty the moment one train pa parsed sell two men nian manipulating pupating pu lating a spike puller began bey loosening the spikes spike preparatory to taking them out at the proper moment these men were thus employed four others unscrewed the nuts from the bolts and in sorted the fish plates which clamp the rall rails i together A bolt was v as left in each end of the rail to prevent it from spreading should anything happen to deter taking it out in the shape of a train coming up sooner than anticipated eight men stood by waiting long stout tongs in their hands ready to lift the tail rail into place aa lis soon as tho the old workout orn out rail was pulled from the theties ties eight men stood at hand ready at a given signal to lift the old rail I 1 out of the way when everything was la in shape the foreman said now N ow boys co go for it wit and it did ones heart good to see the real work n ork in progress the bolts bolt a were pulled from the fish plates the tongs clasped the old thirty feet ot of steel and in a jiffy it was laid beside the tile track in with the new one boyst tho the fore man cried and tho the steel piece was unar bingly deposited on the ties each end of tho the rail and the fish plates were shoved into place and a i bolt sent home three men with spikes and spike hammers then drove four spikes halt half their length into the ties this task concluded the foreman gae gave a sharp warning whistle which was a signal that the train was c coming ong I 1 all hands jumped birdin fro hithe the track just ns at the train w whirled up to the station wilen it passed the be rail was securely fastened all was finished in less two minutes in hla way the I 1 manhattan L road tracks arc are kept in shape on only ly ex expert ri encee men are employed in this work ork great danger is encountered in its prose cution yew new york Ire herald raid |