Abstract: A device for handling railroad timber, including ties, bridge timbers, crossing planks, and bundles of ties and timbers, which comprises spaced-apart pivotally mounted gripping members or jaws for engaging longitudinally along the timber, actuating levers connected to the jaws, and a lifting harness for connecting the device to a lifting machine, such as a crane, wherein the lifting harness is connected to the actuating levers and when raised applies a force to the actuating levers and the gripping members to tightly engage the timber so it can be lifted, moved or repositioned.

Abstract: A demolder for and a method of separating and removing mold material formed around two rail ends of longitudinally adjacent railroad rails during the use of a thermite weld system to join the rails into a continuous rail. The demolder includes an open-ended steel box sized to be positioned about the mold material having substantially aligned slots provided on opposite sides of the box to freely receive the rail and a handle extending upwardly from the box for moving and handling the box.

Abstract: A board game comprising a gameboard divided into sixteen units arranged in four vertical and four transverse rows, each of said units having indicia thereon randomly arranged on the board selected from four sets of indicia. There are also sixteen cards having indicia thereon corresponding to the indicia on the sixteen units of the gameboard. At least two sets of markers are provided for placing on the sixteen units of the gameboard. In play each player sequentially picks a card from the sixteen cards and places a marker on a unit of the gameboard corresponding to the indicia on the card. The object of the game is for a player to have four markers in a row on the gameboard. The game is easy to play, can be completed in a short period of time, and provides for a good combination of luck and skill.