Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post

I am thinking Norfolk and Southern Railway is needing A BUNCH of those jacks !!!!! They are having a streak of bad luck, OR perhaps their poor management decisions are catching up with them.
When much of the rest of the world uses bullhead rail and pandrol clips on concrete sleepers (there are pandrol fittings for wooden sleepers), rather than flat bottom rail and 'spikes' (Canada is much the same), one can't help wonder if lack of investment and improvement rather than fat shareholder profits is the real problem.