Interesting!
Come to think, I don’t recall exactly how they were installing the new ties, but they did have an interesting technique for preparing them: there was one team/vehicle that had laid a new tie down next to each old tie, lying at a 45-degree angle to the rail, and another (slower) team/vehicle following along removing the old ones and installing the new ones.
I was wondering why there were all those ties laid out neatly along the embankment, so I was looking at the track when we passed the vehicles in action…
