Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — Wooden Kails for a Florida Road. [ARTICLE]

Wooden Kails for a Florida Road.

The citizens of Avon Park and Haines City, Fla., forty miles distant, have decided, according to a correspondent of the Manufacturers’ Record, to build a railroad with -wood rails, which are large enough to be laid so that they will be half-imbedded in the sand, without other ballast. They are to. be held In position by wooden pins two Inches In diameter and eighteen Inches long, while the ends are connected by plank couplers placed underneath and held by pins. Not a pound of metal will be used in construction of the tracks. Most of the "rails" will be furnished gratis by property owners along the right of way. The company believes that in a few years the fruit, vegetable and passenger bustoess over the route will pay for regular steel rails, when the others will be used for ties. A small steam dummy will furnish power for the road.