Ever seen a train lay its own track?

This fantastic video shows why the rail industry should think more about being involved in the construction, with highly qualified and high valued added engineers, of the machines than in the mudane employment of hands and no more.

http://www.wimp.com/traintrack/

Amazing. Thanks for sharing Transtraxman.

Nice video transtraxman
Beggars the question though, why does it take a gazillion years to build a train track from London to Birmingham. ?

Amazing. Never see it here. The unions would ban it as it would put 3 million people out of work!

Sorry to disappoint you all but that train is not laying but actually ripping up and relaying track. As for unions not allowing it it’s the standard way mainline track is replaced pretty much anywhere in the world and has been for over 20 years. Even that footage looks pretty old.