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   ocr: were removed. They dug a trench around the whole trackway with picks and shovels -a tough job, because the Paluxy riverbed is limestone. The trackway was divided into three individual sections. The section you see here was one of them- twenty-nine feet long, eight feet wide, eighteen inches thick. This section was cut into pieces, and each piece was carefully covered with a jacket of plaster and labeled. Then the pieces were carried by hand to a waiting truck, which took them to a train to be transported to New York. The whole process took about five months. Finally the pieces were reassembled ...