The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

the whole body of iron at once ; the mass rung

slowly, until by the dropping of the forward

roller over the end of the car the weight tips for-
ward and comes upon a roller fixed upon an

arm projecting from the side of the track-layer,
and, being on a decline, it quickens its pace.
The men then get out of the way in front, but

hang on the load from behind to retard its speed.
It finally touches a second roller projecting from
another arm, and comes chock against a block of
wood built out to stop it. This work is done on
both sides of the machine simultaneously, and, as
we said, the work takes two minutes and twenty
seconds. There are twelve rails then on each
side of the machine, which may •le said to
be in stock, and as quickly as the dropped
rollers can be picked up from between the rails
where they have fallen, and the load of rails,
ties, chairs on the second car can be transferred to
the first by the rope :attached to the dram, as
already described, the apparatus is ready to start
for another heat of 12 rails long. On each side of
the mail; car are two men, one at each end of the
frame ; they ride on a hanging platform on the side
of the car. Their duty is to clip one rail out of the
twelve resting on the stock roller, and place it on
a couple of small rollers nearer the machine.
Directly it rests on these live pulleys, or rollers
it is carried forward by steam power or its own
weight to the next division of the machine, the
overhanging nose, then it comes to a stoppage
again. Two other men then seize it, and place
clips, attached to short tackling, fixed over-
head to the frame. While they are doing this they
stand on an overhanging portion of the platform,
and at the same time a third man is fixing a chair
on the forward end of the rail. They lower the
rail to its place against the last chair. The man
stationed at the forward end holds on to the fall of
his pulley, after the one in the rear has let go, and
the latter steps off the platform, fits it by hand, and
holds what is technically called a shin—a thin plate
of metal five inches long, one and one-eighth inches
wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick, which
he places between the butts of the rails and
holds there until the forward man—the one who
put the chair on the rail before it was lowered—
has struck it home with his sledge. The object of
the shin is to place some substance which, while
hard enough to steady the rail, will yet yield before
the pressure caused by the elongation of the metal
by heat. One or two seconds after the shins are in
their places the forward main wheel of the track-
layer is on them, and the work of the machine on that
pair of rails is over. While the machine is running
forward at a regular, pace, the next rail is being
hooked up by the clips attached to the pullies, and
the work. goes onat a steady pace. The time taken to
lay a rail, as may be well supposed, is less by one-
half than it will take the reader to peruse the
above. One of the advantages and disadvantage 4
of the machine is that while, the engine is working no
man engaged in track-laying or discharging ties
has time to turn his head to sneeze with safety.
Besides the men we have named there is apilut who
steers, and
.engine driver and a fireman—in all
twenty men. The following is a recapitulation of
the crew 1; engine driver, 1; fireman, 1 ;
four men on freight truck discharging ties, 4 ; two
men on each side handling rails, 4 ; two men on each
side at pullies, 4 ; one man on each side placing one
chairs and driving rails home, 2 ; one man receiving
tics in front, 1 ; one man on each side laying ties on
road, 2; total, 20. Twenty is the number on the ship's
articles, the patentee or his partner, Mr. Whiteside,
being generally around but not engaged in manual
labour. We should have said that when a stoppage
is made to run iron forward the tie-layers go back
to the construction train tracks to assist. The Dieu
who put the chairs on take the opportunity to
carry fresh supplies forward from the rear of the
track-layer. The average work of the machine,
when running, since the first few days, during
which the men had to be drilled to quarters,
has been from two-thirds to three-quarters of a
mile. had the grading been done, the bridges
built and the supplies all ready, ,it would have
made the trip from Vallejo to Sacramento in ten or
eleven weeks. It is proposed, when next engaged,
to build freight cars on purpose for the work,
with
rollers affixed to them, and by placing guides for
the hauling rope over the heads of the tie trans-
porting party, reduce the stoppages to the mini-
mum ; just the time necessary to run the comple-
ment of rails from the last car to the machine, two
minutes and forty seconds, as we have said. Tieder
these circumstances, Mr. Whiteside says
he could
lay with his present force one mile a day, bet
probably the tension of the men occupying sole°
of the most arduous posts would be very severe.
Behind the track layer is a party of spikers,
ten in number, and it is as much as they Can
do to keep pace with the machine. Of course
the construction train has to pass over the rails
before a spike is driven. As soon as the chair
to each
•
can be got at, a couple of spikes are driven into
chair, and a couple midway in the rail to stead/ Be
iron and prevent the metal being displfteecl• ht
hind the spikers came a gang of twenty-etvgo
h
Chinese, with two or three white oversee the
ties
were engaged in tamping, that is beddiegfine
Soil
where they are hollow, and filling with ilroad-
around them. The party of Mongolian ra the
makers we SAW must have been new hands at b
job, we expect, though their work was well en°l4s
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No. 11 boots—just as we see them land from til"
sailing ships which transport them hither.

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for the purpose, and the best cricketers are said to
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