| Show KAlL KOAl the french are cot particularly noted for their laborsaving labor saving devices nor for any remarkable feats in railroad building but lately engineers in the employ 0 a railroad construction company in that country have devised a machine for laying track that is an improvement on anything used for that purpose in this country the machine Is in practical operation in tunis the rails are fastened together in pairs by the cross sleepers elee pers at the supply depot and thus loaded upon flat cars are pushed alone over the completed portion of the road at the end of the line is a derrick mounted on wheels and supplied with two crabs the first of which lifts the section of rails from the flat cr while the second deposits them upon the roadbed each time a section is laid the train with the derrick in front advances thirty three feet in this way it has absen possible to lay feet of mils a day ai the time the central pacific was in course of construction and when the union pacific and central pacific were nearing a junction there was a race in track laying out of aiden the central pacific track layers breaking the record by laying ten miles in a day the achievement was at the time considered almost phenomenal but by machinery the french are now accomplishing what was more than a herculean task of brawn and maecle in the sixties |
