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Joe Land

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Sad Scenes
« on: February 09, 2013, 02:38:02 pm »
Photos of track being removed at Harrodsburg Curve near Hgy 37, 05-05-1993. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
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Tim T Swan

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Re: Sad Scenes
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2013, 07:08:21 pm »
Did they actually take it up in such long lengths of welded rail???
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Mike Albert

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Re: Sad Scenes
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2013, 08:10:04 pm »
I would think so, Tim.  When the tore up the old Wabash in Westville, they used the same type of train.  Instead of welded rail, they loaded quarter mile lengths of stick rail, still bolted together.  It's a fairly fast process too.

Mike
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Ron Marquardt

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Re: Sad Scenes
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2013, 08:16:21 pm »
This was the same way they've unloaded new welded rail, and reloaded used welded rail, all over the railroad for years.  / Ron
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Tom Pinnick

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Re: Sad Scenes
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2013, 09:55:29 pm »
I have some video of the rail train taken at Guthrie. They load the previous quarter mile as they tear out the quarter they are running over. At Guthrie it was 115# rail, 39' sticks. Still makes me sick to my stomach to think about it.
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Gene Remaly

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Re: Sad Scenes
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2013, 07:15:43 am »
When they tore out the Airline -Frankfort to Monticello- they unbolted it and used a sled to pull the spikes
 . An excavator with a "rail lifter thingie" was used to set the rail off to the side. A dozer with a v blade then pushed the ties to the side.

The ties were picked up one at a time with a pulp wood type semi trailer with an articulated grapple.
Tie plates, spices, and other metal were loaded into tri-axel dumps with an electromagnet on an excavator

The contractor told me the reason the RR didn't use a rail train was there wasn't enough mileage and all metal was going to scrap.

The trucks drove down the ROW to load. They just drove over the bridges. But, they didn't drive over Owasco or the High Bridge
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