Track laying train

found this on the journal.ie - via my facebook wall, worth a share I thought.

That is what my father was doing when working for a track-building company.
(He was driving such thing, although we have a different type here)

any vids of it?

This is what is used here...



it's not my father, though, he is now retired and I was a little boy when he was doing that.

I was in the process a while back of creating a track laying train like this, u even attempted to create a new route where you had scenarios where you had to lay a new ballast and sleepers and replace the old wooden sleepers, although i could creat the animation of sleepers moving along the underbelly i could not make them detached once layed, a real shame for openbve, when we have people like leezer3 breaking new ground with the steam concept, its a shame noones willing to pull out there finger and knowladge to create a fork that allows objects to attach and detach, maybe we could finally get the ball rolling one day