A Train Lays its Own Track

[Cigar]

EVER SEE A TRAIN LAY NEW TRACK OVER THE REMOVED EXISTING TRACK ?

This is what is happening from Chicago to St. Louis for the high speed rail. People were stopping along the highway taking pictures. For those who live in the Springfield area and have seen all the machines running up and down the tracks, here is a link to a video that shows you how the concrete ties and rail are put in place. The road bed was raised 13 inches to accommodate the new high speed rail line between St. Louis, MO and Chicago, IL. There are only two of these track laying machines in the world, one here and one in Europe


http://www.wimp.com/traintrack/

[Peter1469]

Neat story.

[Don]

I've seen that before. It is cool. If we would have had machines like that back in the 1800's we wouldn't have had to import Chinese to build the railroad and there would have been no need for the Nonpartisan Anti-Chinese League.