Re: Filling and Transporting Ballast on the C&TS
| October 01, 2014 09:37PM |
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Our Ballast wagons had a row of lines painted on the inside corners to indicate capacity loaded with Ballast, Fines or riverrun Gravel. Once when I was firing, it rained really hard enroute and as we were hauling riverrun, the sand held enough water to stall us out and had to double up the section. Load would have been around a 1000 tons not 3 cars 
Chris
in New Zealand
Chris
in New Zealand
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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