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Show Ichiro Okumura 7-20-84 s2:13 IO The railroad track. Put ties in. Be sure the gauge is right. The width. So the wheel swon't drop in. When fuey do get wide, too wide, they just drop in. (laughs) Andthen a lot of times, it rains alot, and it gets L IO soft. The wood gets soft. Well, it starts spreading. You got to keep pulling it in to make it -- How di c¥ou pull it in. everything. I don't know.Picks or whatever, Just pick andpull the rail in. Cause you pull all the spikes on one side. And then you just - you just--you leave one side and you bring the other side to it- To get your gauge, they have what theymll a gauge, just fit it, fit in there. it L How could you see. Coyld you tell by just walking past it that it had gotten too wide. IO Yeah, you can just about tell by the wheel marks on the rail. L You couldkind of see if it were edging towards themiddle. I 0 Yea. f:l.nd you caul d see a joint where the -- where JOU connect the rails together, you call that a joint. Well, sometimes they're stickingout like that. You know sometimes they're wide. Because everything would be straight up to that, and that would be kinked out like that. Andyou'd have to pull it in. Otherwise, it wouldn't take much to drop in, the wheel, for the loads. L what happened if it dropped in. IO Tore up the track . And thenyou had to relay it. If the rails got bad-got ruj·ned, then you~d have to change the rails, change the ties. Everything like that. |
