Rich Muth Wrote:
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> For the sake of argument I'm assuming there's only
> one track that goes for 64 miles and that there is
> a tie every 16".
>
> That means that there are over 253,000 along
> the line. That's a lot of work to maintain!
>
> Rich
Tie centers are 22-24" Which works out to about 2700 ties/mile. That works out to about 60 years per tie. In the dry environment and light loads hauled that the C&TS exists in, 50-60 years of tie life in not unreasonable.