Re: Photo at MP 287.5 shows what I fear!

Your photo at MP 287.50 show what you are dumping ballast over. You will notice a slight curve and superelevation but the low ends of the ties are not cut open by a ballast regulator to ready the track for new ballast. Even though the tie ends are exposed on the high side of the superelevation, when the surface is distured by tamping the stone into the dirt, you will still have a pocket that will not drain under the inside rail of the curve. The old jumk is not cribbed out from between the ties so when you tamp the stone, only the dirt will be pushed under the ties and the stone will lay on the surface, mixed with the sand. It will LOOK Good but be nearly worthless.
Presently the sand under each tie is evenly hard-packed and secure, giving good service for the light axle loading. But next year after the ballast tamper works this stone, you will have lightly packed loose sand under the end of the ties and in the center of the track outside of where the tamper-hands will attempt to push or pack that sand/ballast on each side of the rails. Even the space directly below the rail will be loosely packed and will collect water. None of the under surface of the tie had any space for stray water before the track work is done, but after the track is lifted and stone or the intercrib sand is forced under part of the tie, the rest of the undersurface will be lightly tamped space where water will lay.
To correct this disasterous work, ballast should not be dumped until the ballast regulator or the Jordan Spreader is run along the track and shoulders are cut away taking all soil off of the end of the ties on both sides down to the botton of the ties. And if befor that cut, some of the cribs are cleaned out to make room for the good new stone, it would be even better. That will permit the new stone to be of valuable benefit under the ties, where it is needed.
Just laying stone over the sand and pulling the track up off a firm seating is more of a dis-service than a benefit. If this track does not go to hell in 5 years with this disturbance, it is only because it is a very dry climate. If the new white stone starts to turn yellow near some joints or spots like 287.50, and you see the bottom pumping up and squirting over the stone, all will be lost. Forever! This is how you create MUD-POCKETS. There are a lot of railroad folks reading this that know what mud-pockes are.