Charlie,
I have personally billed thousand of cars of blast furnace slag
used by the CB&Q as ballast and have never heard of such an
operation either in my time or prior to it. By my time there was
only one source in the Chicago area but in the 50's there were
two, neither of which fits that description. In the late 60's slag
was also obtained from Granite City Steel.
I can say that slag ballast was used on the line North of Savanna.
During and after the 1965 flood several solids trains were run
North out of Congress Park.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 27 March, 2003 21:24
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] RE: Burlington ballast
> The Q had a dislocated property called something like the "Chicago,
> Burlington and Hammond" - don't remember the exact name but it shows up in
> the W.W. Baldwin corporate history.... that was adjacent to an EJ&E yard in
> Hammond. Somebody once told me they had a 2-10-2 stationed down there. The
> purpose of the operation was specifically to bring up the slag ballast from
> the steel mills that was used on the mainline in the Chicago area and
> westward.
> Can anybody throw any light on this operation???
> Charlie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@h...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 5:42 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] RE: Burlington ballast
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> > Burlington Ballast per se depends where & when on the system - the Q had
> > it's own ballast & gravel pits plus purchased from commercial sources so
> the
> > "type" varies over time & location. That said - St. Paul southward to
> > LaCrosse: per Q system ballast records of "65 (inc. what was used
> previous
> > back to 1940) there was the following (and bear in mind cinders were
> common
> > on sidings and older ballast would exist with newer depending on whether a
> > main, passing siding, spur, etc). From Dayton's Bluff to Newport & N-bd.
> > main from there to MP 410.5
> > and Prescott south it was crushed rock applied in "56/57 with
> intermittent
> > Speno cleaning in "66. (Some crushed rock was done in "46). Previous it
> had
> > been chatts applied "42 & earlier with exception of cinders in "47 from MP
> > 405 to Prescott. This was pretty much the norm to LaX except for varying
> > areas of Speno Cleaning &/or light surfacing in mid-60's. Gerald Edgar
> >
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