replaciig more than 40,000
decaying wooden rail ties bet-

' - ween: Terrace: and. Prince;

; Rupert.. we ~

“It’s a huge job,” says’ CN :

tie-gang worker Hal ‘Stoba of
the. “project | ‘which. involves

~~ changing between 800 and 1,000

ties a day.

‘Mare than 40 workers from _

as: far away. as Quebec-are in
Terrace to operate the convoy
of machines working its way to
the coast.

The out-of-town workers on
the jobs, it’s expected to take up
to.:two- months, live in the

_ “white fleet” of sleeper rail cars
now anchored across from
Skeena Sawmills, They work 15
days on and.six off,

There are four basic machines

working in a group of about 10
which are used to replace the
ties, Stoba says,

First a tie crane makes its way
along the track dropping ties off
at intervals. It's followed by a
machine that pulls up the spikes
that anchor the rail to the ex-
isting ties.

Stoba says the next machine

‘lifts the track up and pulls the
tie from underneath replacing it
with a mew one.”*

Ties made out of softwoods

are used on level sections while
ones made. out of hardwoods
are used on corners and grades
as tles there experience more
Stress.

After the rail has been respik-
ed a tamping machine comes
along and-ievels the crush or
ballast around the track because
the machine that changes the
ties disturbs it.

.. . The ballast forms the bed on
which everything is held in place
so it has to be levelled off and

| TERRACE’ — CN crews are

CN TIE-GANG workers Hal Stoba and Guiseppe Tullani a are part of

a crew that are replacing the railway ties between Terrace and
Prince Rupert. The two-month job involves over ten machine and
many workers from around the province.

ed. .

So tok kkk

Replacing ties is but one facet
of keeping train traffic rolling
on the tracks, says the CN of-
ficial in charge of the rail from
Terrace to Prince Rupert,

Ron Payne says the tracks”
come under the careful atten-
tion of maintenance crews sta-
tioned in cities and places up
and down the line.

rail is put down, that’s it. But
it’s not,’ said Payne. ‘Railway
technology has changed a great
deal in the past short while.’’
Payne's crews, for instance,

‘Tegularly destress the rail by
* first taking measurements to en-

sure it won't: expand in hot
weather and contract in cold
weather and so cause problems,

Where there is potential for a
problem, crews cut out a piece

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