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When CSX ripped out the RF&P's Potomac Yard I was suprised to see that quite a few unsalable ties were processed with a tubgrinder. They were shredded into a kind of course mulch, loaded into walking bottom trailers, and hauled off site to somewhere. I am told that the shredded ties were mixed with coal and burned in coal fired power plants as an alternative fuel. This is what I was told by another railfan. I don't know this for sure but is seems logical. My bet is that it was hauled to a industrial waste incenerator or landfill for that kind of stuff, What I do know is that the tub grinder was having a time with stray tie plates and spikes. But after a couple of weeks they had ground thousands of ties into thousands of cubic yards of cresote wood much. The pile did not stay long before it was all hauled away but it stunk the high heavens while it was there.
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