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I do not know if this has anything to do with ballast. They are putting in a second track in between Antioch and Wheeling. The problem is they are running into pure black dirt. They have to dig it up and put down clay. Pure black dirt is bad for a rail bed for it absorbs water and holds it. The clay is layed then watered down. The sun bakes it. I talked to one worker he told me it gets hard as concrete. Darn us Illinios people with are pure black soil. (We would ship it to Nebraska but it would only blow back.) <br /> TIM A
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