Thanks, Cy and Ken. I had read the Q had planted catalpa on its station grounds
in part as a potential source of tie wood, but I can't imagine that would have
been a very practical, large-scale source. Oak would have been my guess - the
common, standard hard wood historically used for so many things in America:
school desks and chairs and all sorts of office furniture when I was a kid.
Laboratory workbenches too - many many everyday things that later were made of
steel, then aluminum, and finally plastic. The main thing I wondered about w/
respect to RR ties was whether oak might be so dense as to make the absorption
of creosote difficult.
Thanks again,
Jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Cy Svobodny <ctsvobodny@...> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 12/25/09, jonathanharris@... <jonathanharris@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [CBQ] Re: Merry Christmas(an odd request....)
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