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- What a headache!
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
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Fresh Tracks: 1941
August 1941. "Moving railroad track in the Mahoning pit. Hibbing, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
How to make tracks
Prepare an even subgrade 12 or more inches below what you intend to be the final position for the tops of your rails.
Lay ties evenly spaced along projected line of track.
Lay rails atop those ties and spike them to the ties.
Move a drop bottom gondola or hopper along those rails dropping about six inches of crushed rock ballast, gravel, or in this case mining overburden. This is the stage you see photographed, with some material dropped out of sight between ties and some atop each tie.
Tamp material evenly beneath and between ties and add more to fill between ties and level.
Creepy Sleepers
Those railroad ties look like they came straight from some Salvador Dali painting! What in the world are they made from? Mud? Sand? Meatloaf?!?
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