The German and Europeans have the best track in the world and you rarley ever hear of derailments due to this type of construction. They build this type of rail and raod bed for the high spped trains. Concrete ties are more cost effective.
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its taken long enough but the track from st pancras to paris,is now done the same way and is now running,but we are still light years behind the french and germans ken
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true & I needs to take a pic of the wooden ties/sleepers That I'm using for fence posts Tho I has seen the concrete ones used as parking bumpers hehe Have seen the concrete crossing pads used as a retaining wall
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travel through out Mexico and you'll find most fence posts are concrete , that is if they bother to put them up at all. One of the hazards of driving is the live stock that wanders out on the road
Wood is a scarce commodity, cement is numero uno for construction material.
never bothered to check out the ties
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