Re: Cheaper to start over perhaps...
| November 01, 2020 11:23AM |
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tgbcvr Wrote:
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> And those trees
> have roots, plus six decades of leaf litter
> fouling the ballast. All the ties are essentially
> gone (did the railway even use creosoted ties?),
> but I gather most of the rail will be useable.
I wonder about that, what with the leaf litter and the moist climate, I wouldn’t be surprised if they find that the bottom half of a lot of the rail is too rusted away to use. Time will tell.
From Google
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> And those trees
> have roots, plus six decades of leaf litter
> fouling the ballast. All the ties are essentially
> gone (did the railway even use creosoted ties?),
> but I gather most of the rail will be useable.
I wonder about that, what with the leaf litter and the moist climate, I wouldn’t be surprised if they find that the bottom half of a lot of the rail is too rusted away to use. Time will tell.
From Google
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