He had a small plant that manufactured the fishplates used to join sections of rail. ❋ Clancy, Tom (2002)
The Chinese would swarm over it and throw off the rails, spikes, bolts, and fishplates and the process would be repeated. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
It had reached the final summit, more than five hundred miles east of the first summit above Donner Lake, all done in less than a year and a half, at a time when all the locomotives, iron, spikes, fishplates, bolts, and more had to come from the East Coast. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Next came the track layers with their rails, spikes, fishplates, distance markers, sledgehammers, and ballast. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Side tracks were filled with supply trains bearing hundreds of tons of iron and thousands of ties, fishplates, and more. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Sioux Indians had removed bolts and fishplates from the rail joint and torn down telegraph poles to pry apart the rails. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
The bolts and fishplates were carried in hand buckets to where they were needed. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
He had a train loaded with the rails, ties, spikes, bolts, and fishplates ready to go, along with a Chinese crew to build the siding and Strobridge to boss them. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
When the sun rose, the Chinese would leap onto the cars of the first train, up at the end of track, and begin throwing down kegs of bolts and spikes, bundles of fishplates, and the iron rails. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
The construction train carried forward all supplies—ties, rails, fishplates, sledgehammers, shovels, rope of various sizes and length, more than a thousand rifles, and much more.15 It was indeed comparable, in many ways, to an army moving across the landscape. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Moving all those iron rails, throwing down fishplates and spikes also made of iron, swinging sledgehammers all day long, and all the other movement of goods and supplies, meant accidents. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
They were construction trains, pulling freight cars loaded with rails, fishplates, ties, and more. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
As the first train moved back, six-man gangs of Chinese would lift the small open flatcars onto the track and begin loading each one with sixteen rails plus kegs of bolts, spikes, and fishplates. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Dodge and his subordinates had piled up an immense amount of rails sixteen hundred carloads of track iron from the Chicago and Northwestern alone, spikes, fishplates, ties, and other supplies in Omaha, and had shipped enough to Cheyenne to keep the Casements and their men busy for a long time. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Some put in the ties or filled around them or handled the rails or spiked them down or attached the fishplates to them. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
He wanted ironcars with rails, spikes, and fishplates, all ready to go. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
After their toilet they went to wash faces and hands in a tin basin, had a hearty breakfast, and went to the job, whether plowing, shoveling, placing ties or rails, spiking them in, or putting on the fishplates at the junction of two rails. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
