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[quote user="mudchicken"]<p>[quote user="jeaton"]Three things: Drainage, drainage and drainage.[/quote]</p><p> </p><p><span class="smiley">[bow]</span><span class="smiley">[bow]</span><span class="smiley">[bow]</span></p><p><span class="smiley">No drainage, no railroad foundation....might as well put all your shiny toys back in the box.</span></p><p><span class="smiley">1.435m = Might explain to him about how you cannot just keeping dumping ballast forever, what a sled is, what ballast pockets are, about creo wood tie decay acceleration with water and mud, ballast gradations (3.5", 1.75",0.75" and screenings) & Brinnell Hardness, what's wrong with gravel and so on.</span></p><p><span class="smiley">MOJAX...well yeah, the only stuff going back into the track should be the ballast - Albeit less than what was there. Ever seen the windrow the ballast cleaner, shoulder cleaner, undercutter leaves behind?</span></p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I kid you not, the other day the client's other engineering firm was suggesting limestone was OK for a 20MGT/year line operated at 50 mph with 286K cars.</p><p>S. Hadid </p>
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