2 Verbs to Use for the Word crossties

Andrews at last broke off the end of his last box car and dropped crossties on the track as he ran.

The work of construction is oftentimes very light, little more being necessary for a railway across the prairies of the West (generally) than a couple of ditches twenty or thirty feet apart, the material taken therefrom being thrown into the intermediate space, thus forming the surface which supports the crossties, the sills or sleepers, and the rails.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  crossties