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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Yankee railroad, (search)
A Yankee railroad, --The Way They Build Then.--Grant's railroad from city Point to the Weldon road, is nine miles long, and was built in eleven days. A letter describing it, says: "Two days were lost to the force by the sinking of a vessel having a portion of the material on board, which reduces it practically to a nine days job. No previous surveys had been made to establish the route, or ascertain grades, and the most remarkable feature of the whole is, that none were made at all. The line was located by the eye, without the aid of a compass, and no instruments were need to guage the evenness or degree of curvature to be established at different points. No measurement was made or taken in laying the track from one end to the other — not even a tape line or "ten feet." poles !-- All was gauged by the eye — estimated by paces. The practical skill of the construction corps enabled them to seise the best location for the road at a glance, and to direct its details without t