Patent ID: 8397642

Claim:
Installation method for railway tracks on ballast, without auxiliary track, comprising the steps of: (a) making of a ballast bed and installing a plurality of sleepers on the ballast bed; (b) installing a plurality of roller elements on the already installed sleepers, each roller element being supported on two successive sleepers forming a bridge between the two successive sleepers, consecutively separated from each other at a predetermined distance; (c) providing a tractor device having ground engaging elements that span the installed sleepers and move longitudinally with respect to the ballast bed; (d) providing a supply of rails on a mini train; (e) unloading a pair of rails from the mini train onto the roller elements, and longitudinally moving the pair of rails on the roller elements up to their placement on the sleepers; (f) cutting, squaring and fixing of the rails for connecting adjacent ends of adjacent rails; (g) lifting a forward end of each rail; (h) removing the roller elements; (i) fastening the rails to the sleeper; and (j) repeating steps (b) through (i) until installation of the railway tracks is completed.