New D&SNGR Tracks

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad upgrades the train tracks at the intersection of Camino del Rio and Main Avenue as Colorado Department of Transportation makes improvements to the intersection.

[IowaTrainGay]

Good to know a narrow gauge railway can use modern, 115lb rail!

[kellycny]

Very interesting to see railroad track construction. Have never seen this before!

[tracynation]

An excellent video. Imagine me thinking that a bunch of people would be shoveling ballast, not a three foot narrow gauge track laying machine. 🙂 That is awesome. I think that I now have a need for a new model on my old layout. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

[rdsieben]

Glad they purchased some old WP & YR diesel locomotives

[snagletoothscott]

I've seen a couple videos of D&S and Broad Top track work and oftne surprised just how deep they dig down. narrow gauge historically had been "lay it on the land" type of construction. I know they have modern safety regulations they need to abide by, but I rarely ever see even class one mainlines dig a 2 to 3 foot trench and drop the rail down inside of it. I mean, Ive seen them dig the trench, but that's subroadbed work, they only drop the rails after they build up the subroad up out of trench.

[JoeyLovesTrains]

Crazy how they’re building rail with rail clips instead of spikes! Maybe metronorth should take some notes…

[marcusdamberger]

Using Pandrol clips versus rail spikes. Those have to be installed at time of install because they are captive, at least for concrete sleepers. Seen all over the world now.

[TheSonic]

115 lb rail huh? That's mainline stuff for 3'6" gauge track with 119 ton locomotives going 70 mph.
Serious stuff, that'll be there for a while

[marvwatkins]

Great and hopefully CDOT pays for it all.
Meanwhile, there was too much background noise to understand him fully.

[SouthernPacific]

I have a brand new d&sng railroad spike with 4 GG MC on top

[BiggHoss]

I'm surprised there's someone who makes modern narrow gauge MOW equipment

[microbusss]

bet those are Standard Gauge crossties

[maestromecanico]

Awesome. Now where does one find a narrow-gauge track tamper?

[sgtdebones]

Buy a Tier-4 credited GEVO powered BB40-9W (ES40BB - custom build)

[kpdvw]

not ebven close too modern European Rail/concrete ties