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and he notes - Prior to the chemical holding tank era, toilets flushed directly onto the roadbed. At passenger train speeds, the excrement was spread over several hundred yards which biodegraded very quickly, posing no hazard to track workers, (who would be wearing gloves and boots anyway). I remember asking a railroad baggage man in my home town about this fifty or so years ago when I started railfanning and was told that I had no business on the right of way. I pressed the question with a quick calculation that over a hundred years of busy mainline traffic, I surmised that there must have been thousands of tons of this stuff dumped on the tracks. He shrugged and said that it was mostly water and what the birds didn't get, the ants did. He suggested that I walk on the side of the tracks. I guess he was right. If not, main lines would have been buried ages ago...
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