The amount of time that it can take to lay a mile of railroad tracks can depend upon several factors. Some of these factors include speed of the workers laying the track and how many workers are laying the track. A record was set in 1869 when a group laid 10 miles of track in less than one day.
Most are a quarter mile but there are a few eighth of a mile tracks.
3000 railroad ties per mile in the USA
440 yards is a quarter of a mile. One lap around most tracks is about that far.
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The Federal government paid the two railroad companies that built it by granting them sections (one square mile) on alternating sides of any tracks that they built. The railroad companies could do whatever they wanted with this land and often sold it off. Many other western railroads were later funded the same way.
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Typically most running tracks would be 1/4 of a mile, 4 laps being mile.
On official size tracks, the answer is 4 laps make a mile when your jogging 4 laps make a mile
They wanted a set distance, and a quarter mile worked out. Many tracks are adopting an eighth mile format now though.
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