Joe Magruder Wrote:
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> It's interesting that our tie replacement process
> at the Western Railway Museum (Rio Vista Junction)
> is much more automated that this shortline's.

From what I have observed this method of tie replacement is still in common use. Last month I watched the Union Pacific track crew at the Santa Cruz Wye use the same method as the RCBT&P track crew used yesterday to replace ties.





Except for bringing in a ballast regulator and a torsion beam tamper to resurface the rails in Watsonville after ties were replaced last month, the Union Pacific track crew also used the same method in Watsonville as the RCBT&P did yesterday to replace ties.