That IS pretty cool. I never thought much about how train track is laid these days, but I can't imagine they're still driving spikes with sledges too much anymore.
I want to know how one gets a job doing this, driving the huge machines that lay the track. The engineers that built and designed this amazing thing are one thing, but who is in the cab making it work.?
Same old mantra here, with overtime and the pay scale, the labores who man the cabs may be making more then the engineers. 12 years of college and the good old boy with out a GED may be bringing in more money then them.
To top it off it will be the workers that alert the educated on a problem they had not envisioned.
Sort of like when a young kid right out of the Academy has to be seasoned by the Sargent's or Chiefs in the real world.
In the film there was one man whose job was to place some sort of divice on each piece that rolled by him, wonder what he was paid for that complicated job that a 10 year old could do.
Interesting device, but more interesting were the people that ran the device, and how they ever learned the skill to do so.