Decauville

The spoil was then hauled away by trains of little dump cars Decauville dump cars with a carrying capacity of 4½ cubic meters to some convenient adjacent valley, where, from improvised tracks run along the brow of the valley, the spoil was dumped over the side until it built up sufficiently below to create a terrace.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

The spoil was then hauled away by trains of little dump cars Decauville dump cars with a carrying capacity of 4½ cubic meters to some convenient adjacent valley, where, from improvised tracks run along the brow of the valley, the spoil was dumped over the side until it built up sufficiently below to create a terrace.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

Decauville railways -- are often models of their kind.

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

The portable track of the Decauville system is not capable of so coming apart.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

These could have been to a large extent obviated had light Decauville railways been constructed, such as the Germans were discovered later to have been using.

The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

In Surinam it is conveyed by boat, and in San Thomé by trucks, which run on Decauville railways.

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

The success of the Decauville railway has been so rapid and so great that many inventors have entered the same field, but they have almost all formed the idea of constructing the portable track with detachable sleepers.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

There were no metalled roads but between the buildings a hard travelling surface was obtained by putting discarded engine oil over the loose sand and traffic soon firmed this up For heavier loads a two-foot gauge Decauville track was laid between the main buildings and trucks were hauled by a Lister powered locomotive.

Coming of Age: 1939-1946 John Cox

Savorgnan de Brazza, have all made use of the Decauville narrow-gauge railway system.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

The "Decauville Track" ran past "Berthonval Farm," across the Béthune road, branching there right and left for the various Battalion dumps, ours being in the Talus des

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman