Track Repair at Penn Station: Time Lapse

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Amtrak posted a short video showing repairs at New York’s Pennsylvania Station:

Now I’d like to see some of the operation in real-time… especially that walking gantry!

Enjoy—

Ed

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Would you look at that, they lay track ALMOST as fast as Mike Rose [(-D]

–Randy

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Interesting that they chose to use Snap-track instead of hand laid.

Ed

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No room overhead to swing a tack hammer? One of those machines must be a caulk applicator and spreader [:-^]

Ed2