Overhead rails off course, didn't think of it that way before. Ive cut my own sleepers, using scrap wood. I scored some sugar pine that fell of someones trailer on the way to the tip, that made a nice lot of sleepers, and another wood that a friend suggested was soft Meranti ( not the hard stuff ) this works as well as sugar pine, no splitting. Im guessing sugar pine is more common in the US. If you area a tight old Scotsman like me, you can use staples for spikes as well. I only know this because I thought , what would I do If I couldn't get Right of Way spikes, so I experamented. ( being all the way down under ) cTr....( Choose the Right )
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