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<p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]<span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">For railroad grades, I see three distinct phases of earthmoving art as follows:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">1) The horse and scraper/pick and shovel phase used up to generally circa 1880-90.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">2) The steam shovel/dump train/fill trestle phase used circa 1880-90 to 1915.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">3) The current power equipment cutting, hauling, and filling phase.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">Phase #1 provided compaction from horses and pulled equipment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">Phase #3 has provided compaction from power equipment including specific compaction equipment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">It is phase #2 that raises a question as to how compaction was achieved. For the fill operation alone, this phase had no need for horse or equipment traffic working on the fill surface. So if this fill was compacted, it would have required horse or power equipment working the fill surface just for the purpose of compacting it. I have no knowledge of this being done, but if it was, it would have been complicated by the presence of the trestle rising out of the fill. The trestle piling and braces would have been obstacles to the compacting operation. </span>[/quote]</p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">The only remaining question I have pertains to what I mentioned earlier about earthmoving phase #2. </span></p>
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